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Human rights groups oppose asylum processing rule that would further slow cases
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Cameroon Advocacy Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition, strongly opposes a proposed regulation that would disproportionately deny humanitarian protection to people in immigration detention and Black people. On June 12, 2024, the human rights organizations submitted a…
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Governor Kathy Hochul Pardons Longtime New York Resident Paul Pierrilus, Human Rights Groups Urge the U.S. Government to Bring Paul Home
Tags Share New York, NY, May 30, 2024 – Last week, on May 24, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul of the State of New York granted Paul Pierrilus, a 35-year resident of Spring Valley, New York, a gubernatorial pardon. The pardon, requested by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance earlier this year,…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2024 Book and Journalism Award Winners
Tags Share NEW YORK, MAY 21, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2024 RFK Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony with remarks by president Kerry Kennedy and featuring special guest presenters Kimberly Adams, Michael Beschloss, Margaret Engel, Annette Gordon-Reed, Van Jones, Rory Kennedy, Nicholas Kristof, Arantxa…
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RFK Human Rights and Partner Organizations File Written Statement with International Court of Justice on Climate Change and Environmental Defenders
Tags Share On May 6, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, Amazon Watch, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD), ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), and the International Service for…
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RFK Human Rights Urges U.S. Higher Education Institutions to Protect Civic Space
Tags Share RFK Human Rights proudly partners with activists around the world in defense of civic space. By protecting people’s ability to peacefully assemble and express matters of conscience before their governments, we work to accomplish Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s vision of a more just and peaceful world. Over the past week, students and faculty…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Names 2024 Ripple of Hope Award Laureates
Tags Share New York, NY, May 1, 2024 – Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, today announced the winners of the 2024 Ripple of Hope Awards: Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter, actor, director, and producer; Antonio Neri, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; John W. Rogers, Jr., chairman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments;…
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Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Sue ICE And GEO Group For Physically Assaulting and Abusing Immigrant While Detained
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2024 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), and The Bronx Defenders sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the GEO Group, a private prison company, under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angel Argueta Anariba, a…
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Human Rights Groups Ask International Commission to Investigate Police Killing of U.S. Environmental Activist
Tags Share New York, NY, April 8, 2024 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, The Southern Center for Human Rights, and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requesting a Department of Justice investigation into the 2023 murder of Manuel Esteban Páez…
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Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Groups Submit Federal Civil Rights Complaint After ICE Facility in Louisiana Pepper Sprays 200 Protesting Individuals in Retaliatory Attack
Tags Share Washington, D.C., April 2, 2024 – Last week, a group of human rights and immigrant rights organizations filed a federal civil rights complaint against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana and its contractors at the for-profit prison company, LaSalle Corrections. The complaint, which was submitted to the…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces Two New Board Members
Tags Share NEW YORK, APRIL 2, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors, Sancia Dalley of PGIM and María Teresa Kumar of Voto Latino. With backgrounds representing the investment sector, ESG, journalism, and voter advocacy, Dalley and Kumar have decades of experience…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces Arely Westley as the 2024 Human Rights Award Laureate
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced Arely Westley, an LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights activist, as the recipient of its 41st annual RFK Human Rights Award. A ceremony honoring Westley is scheduled for the first week of June in Washington, D.C. A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx,…
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Three Years After Unjust Deportation, As Violence Explodes in Haiti, Human Rights Groups Urge Governor Kathy Hochul to Pardon Longtime New York Resident
Tags Share Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed a gubernatorial pardon application on behalf of Paul Pierrilus, a financial consultant from New York. The organizations are asking Governor Kathy Hochul to facilitate Pierrilus’ immediate return to New York following his sudden deportation to Haiti in 2021 – a country…
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