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Human Rights Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Withdraw Proposed Regulations that Would Effectively Ban Black Asylum Seekers
Tags Share Washington, D.C., March 28, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the Black Immigrant Bail Fund, Cameroon Advocacy Network, and Haitian Bridge Alliance, strongly opposes a new regulatory framework that would all but ban asylum for Black asylum seekers. On March 27, 2023, the human rights organizations submitted a public comment to…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announces three new board members
Tags Share NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. With backgrounds spanning marketing, law, finance, and venture capital, the new members bring decades of experience in their respective fields and a deep commitment to social justice.…
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Human Rights Organizations Testify Before Inter-American Commission on the United States Government’s Ongoing Abusive Practice of Deporting Individuals to Haiti
Tags Share LOS ANGELES, MARCH 9, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), the Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), Alternative Chance, the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law testified today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights…
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Human Rights Organizations Urge United Nations to Review Abusive Solitary Confinement Practices in California, New York, Louisiana, and Minnesota
Tags Share Washington, D.C., February 28, 2023 – Last week, a group of human rights organizations including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the California Mandela Campaign, Atlas of Blackness, Unlock the Box Campaign, and the NY #HALTsolitary campaign, filed a joint submission urging the United Nations to review abusive solitary confinement practices against Black people…
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Rights Groups Call on Bangladesh to Cease Harassment of Rozina Islam in Public Letter
Tags Share Sent by email Mr. Asaduzzaman Khan, MPMinister of Home AffairsPeople’s Republic of Bangladeshminister@mha.gov.bd Mr. Zahid Maleque, MPMinister of Health and Family WelfarePeople’s Republic of Bangladeshminister@mohfw.gov.bd Dear Ministers Khan and Maleque, We, the undersigned press freedom and human rights groups, write to seek your leadership in ensuring an immediate end to the harassment of…
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Paul Pierrilus, Who Was Unjustly Deported to Haiti Two Years Ago Today, Must Be Returned to the United States and Reunited with His Family
Tags Share Washington DC, February 2, 2023 – Two years ago today, on Feb. 2, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration put Paul Pierrilus, a finance consultant from New York, on a deportation flight to Haiti. Born in St. Martin to Haitian parents but raised in New York, Paul was not from and had never been to…
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on the Deteriorating Health of Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili in Detention
Tags Share I join the chorus of voices in expressing profound concern regarding the ongoing detention conditions of Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili amid recent reports of his possible poisoning and increasingly deteriorating health as confirmed by the country’s Public Defender. Like all sovereign nations, the Georgian government has an obligation under international human rights law…
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RFK Human Rights and other leading international organizations call on Somali government officials to drop charges against Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins six other international organizations in a letter to Somali government officials calling for all charges against journalist, press freedom advocate, and Secretary General of Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, to be dropped. The letter details the arbitrary arrests, detention, and persecution that Mr. Mumin has…
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BANGLADESH: Government must stop human rights violations and end impunity
Tags Share Kuala Lumpur/ Hong Kong/ Manila/ Bangkok/ Paris/Dhaka /Geneva /Johannesburg /Washington DC, 09 December 2022: The undersigned human rights organizations commemorate all victims of human rights violations and stand in solidarity with the victims’ families in Bangladesh and across the world. This year’s International Human Rights Day’s slogan is “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Archewell Foundation partner to celebrate women who are human rights defenders
Tags Share New York, NY, December 6, 2022 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) today held its annual Ripple of Hope Gala which honored exemplary leaders across government, business, advocacy, and entertainment who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to social change and worked to advance equity, justice, and human rights. The event brought together…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expands U.S. advocacy and litigation efforts with appointment of Sarah Gillman
Tags Share New York, NY, October 18, 2022 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced that Sarah Gillman, co-founder of the noted Rapid Defense Network (RDN), has joined the organization as its new Director of Strategic U.S. Litigation. A seasoned attorney specializing in immigrants’ rights, Gillman will work to expand RFK Human Rights’ domestic…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights names clean energy pioneer Michael Polsky 2022 Ripple of Hope Award Laureate
Tags Share New York, NY, October 13, 2022 —Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced that Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO of Invenergy, has been named a 2022 Ripple of Hope Award laureate. Polsky will be honored alongside fellow laureates Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; Frank Baker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris; Prince Harry and…
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