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2024 RFK Book and Journalism Awards Now Open for Submissions
Tags Share New York, NY, October 10, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced it has opened its 2024 RFK Book and Journalism Awards for submissions. Entries must have been published, aired, or broadcast in 2023 to be eligible for consideration. The deadline for book entries is January 5, 2024 and the deadline…
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Inter-American Court to hold public hearing on disappeared Guatemalan Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. CST on October 11 on the case of Pérez Lucas et al. v. Guatemala, the four human rights defenders forcibly disappeared by the Guatemalan Army in 1989 whose whereabouts continue to be unknown.…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, and New York Civil Liberties Union File FOIA Request Following Abuses in Immigration Detention Centers
Tags Share New York, NY, October 5, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU-LA), and New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), today filed five Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to obtain records from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding policies and practices within the New…
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Robert F. Kennedy hosts 34th annual Golf Tournament in Hyannis Port
Tags Share NEW YORK, October 4, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will host its 34th annual golf tournament on Friday, October 13, at the Hyannisport Club in Hyannis Port, Mass. Special guests from the sports and entertainment industries will join Kerry Kennedy, the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and several members…
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The January 6th Select Committee to receive the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights 2023 Ripple of Hope Award
New York, NY, October 3, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced that the January 6th Select Committee members will be presented with the 2023 Ripple of Hope Award during the organization’s annual gala on Wednesday, December 6 in New York City. Chairman Bennie Thompson, Vice Chair Liz Cheney, Rep. Pete Aguilar, Rep.…
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Somali Journalists Syndicate and RFK Human Rights Submit Communication to UN Human Rights Committee for Somali Journalist Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) have submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee for the case of exiled Somali journalist and human rights defender, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin. Mumin is a renowned journalist who was thrice arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured by Somali state security forces…
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Civil Rights Groups Challenge Discriminatory Law Unfairly Impacting Black Children of Unwed U.S. Citizen Fathers
Tags Share WASHINGTON — Civil rights attorneys for Damion Glenroy Davis will present oral arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 to end a law that excluded naturalized citizen fathers from passing U.S. citizenship to immigrant children who were born “out of wedlock.” Although the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA)…
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Joint Letter Calling on Bangladesh to Dismiss Digital Security Act Cases Over Freedom of Expression
Tags Share Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina People’s Republic of Bangladeshinfo@pmo.gov.bd Sent via email Madam Prime Minister Hasina, We, the 19 undersigned press freedom and human rights organizations, write to seek your administration’s urgent intervention to immediately end the harassment and intimidation of journalist Adhora Yeasmean, who faces an investigation under the Digital Security Act (DSA)…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center file briefs with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd’s families
Tags Share Washington, D.C., August 9, 2023 – Nine years after Michael Brown’s murder by Ferguson police, attorneys from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University have filed briefs before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requesting a hearing on Brown’s case and the 2012 murder…
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New federal lawsuit filed to hold U.S. government accountable for abuse and unlawful deportation of Cameroonian asylum seekers
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 8, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Texas A&M Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic and Civil Rights Clinic filed a case in the District of Columbia on behalf of two Cameroonian men abused by U.S. immigration detention officials and then deported back to…
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United States abuses Cameroonian asylum seekers before deporting them back to persecutors
This pair of related cases seeks accountability for the delivery of Cameroonian asylum back to persecution and for their abuse during immigration detention and deportation flights, in retaliation for speaking out against unjust conditions of confinement.
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In Memoriam: Marianna Vardinoyannis
Tags Share In loving memory of Marianna Vardinoyannis 2014 RFK Ripple of Hope Honoree and Leadership Council member. A global champion for human rights, an angel to children with cancer, an advocate for refugees and abused women and children and a UNESCO ambassador, she truly “made gentle the life of this world”.
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