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Taller con Foro Penal sobre el Protocolo de Estambul
Tags Share Por varios años RFK Human Rights ha venido trabajando en la documentación e investigación del uso de la tortura y la desaparición forzada en Venezuela como herramienta de la persecución política. Adicionalmente, también ha trabajado con aliados en el terreno en la representación e incidencia en casos de graves violaciones a los derechos…
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Workshop with Foro Penal on the Istanbul Protocol
Tags Share For several years RFK Human Rights has been working on the documentation and investigation of the use of torture and enforced disappearance in Venezuela as a tool of political repression. Additionally, it has worked closely with local partners representing cases of serious human rights violations and advocating on behalf of victims. On September…
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On Anniversary of Del Rio Disaster, Immigration Advocates Demand End to Haitian Removals
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15th, 2022 Contact: Alexandra Gulden alexandra@quixote.org Washington DC—On the one-year anniversary of the human rights disaster in Del Rio, Texas, the Quixote Center and 19 organizational co-sponsors are delivering a petition to the White House calling on the Biden administration to halt all removals of Haitian migrants, including interdictions…
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Welcoming two new staff members: Rebecca Stephens and Allison Gilmore
Tags Share The Human Rights Education Speak Truth to Power team welcomes two new staff members. Rebecca Stephens joins us as the new HRE Capacity Building Manager. Rebecca is responsible for our educator-facing work, and she will take the lead in implementing the whole school framework with partner schools. Rebecca comes to us with a…
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 2022 – The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by…
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5 Things to Know About Western Sahara
Tags Share Western Sahara hosts the second largest wall in the world, coming up short only to the Great Wall of China. This wall, known as the Berm, is 1600 miles long, 10 feet tall, and made of sand. The Berm runs all the way from Western Sahara’s southern border with Mauritania, to its northern…
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Two Years of Arbitrary Detention of Hotel Rwanda Hero Paul Rusesabagina
Two years ago on Aug. 27, Belgian citizen and U.S. permanent resident Paul Rusesabagina was tricked by a friend to leave the country for a speaking engagement in Burundi, but instead transferred against his will to Kigali during his layover in Dubai. Deceived into thinking he was connecting to Burundi, he was abducted by agents…
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Request for Thematic Hearing on Deportations of Haitian Nationals from the U.S. to Haiti During the 185th Period of Sessions of the IACHR
Tags Share August 15, 2022 Tania Reneaum Panszi Executive Secretary Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1889 F Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 cidhoea@oas.org cidhprotecction@oas.org Re: Request for Thematic Hearing on Deportations of Haitian Nationals from the United States to Haiti During the 185th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Dear Secretary…
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Human rights groups support United Nations in confronting U.S. government on racially discriminatory immigration policies
Tags Share GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 12, 2022 – Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights applaud the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for asking poignant and demanding questions to the U.S. government about its racially discriminatory immigration practices, particularly those…
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Statement by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy on the passing of Bill Russell
Tags Share A Hall of Famer who led the Boston Celtics to 11 NBA Championships. The first Black head coach in an American sports league. But Bill Russell was so much more than that. Russell, who died Sunday at age 88, was not only a basketball legend but a towering figure in the civil rights…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights names 2022 Ripple of Hope Award laureates
Tags Share New York, NY, July 6, 2022 —Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2022 Ripple of Hope Awards: Frank Baker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris, and Brian Moynihan, Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America. The laureates will be honored on Tuesday, December…
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Statement From RFKHR President Kerry Kennedy on Roe v. Wade Decision
The decision by extremist justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion is, without question, a terrible strike against human rights in the United States and beyond. It will permit legislators to intrude on the most private of medical decisions and eliminate access to…
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