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An Unhappy New Year for Migrants in the Bahamas
Tags Share Normally, the start of a new year is a time of optimism and hope. This year, many in the Bahamas are awaiting December 31 with dread thanks to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’ declaration that migrants in an irregular status are to leave the country by that day or face aggressive deportation. Since Minnis’…
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RFK Human Rights Joins Coalition Fighting Impunity in Mexico
The group, called the International Observatory on Mexico, will set out to monitor and document the country’s deteriorating human rights situation.
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RFK Human Rights Co-Organizes Hearings on Police Killings
Tags Share CAITLIN CALLAHAN On December 7th, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights co-organized a Thematic Hearing on impunity for police killings within the United States before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A recording of the full hearing can be found here. The testimony provided by family members and activists focused on the barriers families…
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RFK Human Rights Launches New North Korea Report
The report calls for North Korean officials to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity committed in the country’s political prisons.
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Strengthening Our Commitment to a World Free From Violence Against Women
Tags Share July 7, 1995, was the last day Ramona saw her teenage daughter, Silvia. Two months later, Silvia’s body was found on a ranch outside of Ciudad Juarez, México, a city notorious for epidemic rates of femicide, or the killing of women due to their gender. 22 years later, no one has been convicted…
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RFK Human Rights Wins Stella Nyanzi Case
The decision by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention determined that Stella Nyanzi—a prominent human rights defender, social activist, and academic in Uganda—was arbitrarily detained for her Facebook posts criticizing Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.
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Building Civil Society Skills with a Bahamas Human Rights Workshop
The workshop worked with participants to identify the main human rights issues in The Bahamas and develop strategies to address them.
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Briefing: ‘Dreams Deferred’
Tags Share The Coordinator of the umbrella organization Dominican@s por Derecho and the Director of the Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CEDESO, Center for Sustainable Development), Beneco Enecia requested that Dominican authorities accept the responsibility of finding a definitive solution to the problems Judgment 168/13 has caused tens of thousands of people, particularly as Law 169-14…
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IACHR Grants Admissibility in Mexican Femicide Case
Tags Share On October 6, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights was notified by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of its decision to grant admissibility to six cases of femicide—the murder of women because of their gender—committed in Ciudad Juarez. The IACHR’s admissibility declaration is a critical step in the long fight for justice…
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Dispatch from Mexico
Tags Share BETWEEN OCTOBER 6TH AND 11TH, A DELEGATION FROM ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS VISITED THREE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF MEXICO TO BRING ATTENTION TO PERSISTENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. In Ciudad Juárez (state of Chihuahua), the delegation witnessed the impact of widespread violence against women, normalized by impunity. In particular, disappearances of women and high…
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Open Letter to Dominican President Medina on Anniversary of Judgment 168-13
Tags Share Santo Domingo, September 23, 2017 The Honorable Danilo Medina Sánchez President of the RepublicHand Delivered/ Palacio Nacional Distinguished President Medina: The organizations that comprise the Dominican@s por Derecho platform write to communicate our sadness and a clear message to which we have beared witness: Law 169-14 has not resolved the problems created by…
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Judgment 168-13: Four Years Later
Four years after the watershed ruling, Judgment 168-13, we look at the ongoing legal and political struggle to ensure the citizenship rights of all Dominicans are restored.
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