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Human Rights Law Must Recognize Short-Term Enforced Disappearances
Tags Share In our recent report on enforced disappearances in Venezuela, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and partner organization Foro Penal focused on Venezuelan security forces’ practice of disappearing victims for, on average, about five days and then either presenting them to the judicial authorities or releasing them without presentation. Enforced disappearances, we noted in…
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Bahamian Emancipation Day Continues to Ring Hollow
Emancipation Day in The Bahamas cannot truly be celebrated for those at risk of statelessness.
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
Tags Share Speakers: Jonathan Metzl received the 2020 RFK Book Award for Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland. With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life…
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Joint UN Petition Calls for Journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur’s Release
Tags Share Mogadishu, Somalia and Washington, DC — On July 27, 2020, the Somali Journalists Syndicate, the Somali Media Association, lawyer Daahir Ali and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights jointly submitted a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of detained journalist, Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur. Mr. Nuur, a Somali human…
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Meet Our 2020 Ripple of Hope Award Laureates
The 52nd annual Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award celebrates outstanding changemakers who are working to advance equality, justice, and human rights.
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IACHR Grants Protective Measures for Maury Carrero
Tags Share On July 17, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures to Maury Carolina Carrero Mendoza, who had been arbitrarily detained on April 2 in Venezuela for her alleged connection to an advisor to National Assembly President Juan Guaido. Carrero was arrested at her home by members of the counterintelligence division…
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Defending Human Rights During COVID-19
States must address the underlying conditions threatening the work of human rights defenders, not just the symptoms.
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on the Death of John Lewis
“John Lewis was the conscience of Congress, a civil rights icon, someone who reminded again and again and again what it means to be both compassionate and just.”
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The U.S. Must Comply with International Refugee Protection Standards
We oppose a rule proposed by the Trump administration that eviscerates the U.S. asylum system.
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NGOs Urge Secretary Pompeo to Call Myanmar’s Crimes Genocide
Tags Share Dear Secretary Pompeo, We write to urge the U.S. Department of State to publicly determine that the state of Myanmar has committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people. The evidence of genocide and crimes against humanity is clear and convincing and has been amply documented. In making such a determination,…
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A Renewed Commitment to Workplace Dignity in a Collective Moment of Reckoning
Tags Share As Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights completed its third month of remote work during a worldwide pandemic, some previously unthinkable habits have emerged as new normals. We’ve spent time talking about the increased physical and emotional demands of caring for children, partners and aging parents, as well as the added stresses and complexities…
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Kerry Kennedy, Colin Kaepernick Commit $1 Million to Supporting Community Bail Funds
The Funds for Freedom partnership will accelerate the work of local organizers to release people from jails threatened by COVID-19.
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