International Advocacy and Litigation
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration law It would be comforting to believe that what we are witnessing in U.S. immigration policy is simply the product of one man’s authoritarian impulses. It would also be wrong. President Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. Like…
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Cameroon: Government Must End Intimidation of REDHAC and Kennedy Human Rights Laureate Maximilienne Ngo Mbe
Tags Share The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center strongly condemns the ongoing judicial harassment and targeting of human rights defenders Alice Nkom and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate Maximilienne Ngo Mbe, Co-Chair and Executive Director of the Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa (REDHAC). We call on the Cameroonian
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Trump has exposed the dangers buried in our immigration law It would be comforting to believe that what we are witnessing in U.S. immigration policy is simply the product of one man’s authoritarian impulses. It would also be wrong. President Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. Like…
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Iran’s Repression of Protesters Demands International Protection and Accountability
Tags Share The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Center condemns the Iranian authorities’ violent repression of peaceful protests across the country since they started on December 28, 2025. This most recent wave of excessive use of force, including lethal force, mass arrests and detention, and enforced disappearances, together with the hardening of restrictions on freedom
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
1. Life for immigrant families in detention: sick children, no doctors They stole a few hours sleep under glaring LED lights, crowded in by dozens of other detainees. They shivered through fevers and flus and prayed deadlier diseases weren’t stalking their confines. Then, just as they feared their confinement would linger indefinitely, they were released.…
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Uganda: Authorities Must Desist from Attacks on Civic Space and Investigate 2026 Electoral Period Violations
Tags Share The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center strongly condemns the violence, repression, and serious human rights violations that took place during and following the just-concluded general elections in Uganda. We call on the Ugandan authorities to desist from all forms of violence and intimidation; respect the rights of all citizens, including opposition
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Forbes: World Leaders Meeting In Davos Tests Political And Corporate Courage
Forbes reports that conversations at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos highlight a growing test of whether political and corporate leaders will treat human rights and resource limits as real constraints, rather than messaging challenges, as overlapping global crises place new pressure on institutions. Leaders across human rights, social innovation, and critical infrastructure emphasized…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits
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El País: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights holds Honduras Responsible for Violating the Rights of Leonela Zelaya, a Transgender Woman
El País reports that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled Honduras responsible for violating the rights of Leonela Zelaya, a transgender woman whose killing in 2004 the court characterized as a transfemicide. The court found serious deficiencies in the investigation into Zelaya’s death, condemned repeated illegal and arbitrary arrests against her, and cited…
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Rolling Stone: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemns Honduras in the case of Leonela Zelaya
In a historic event for the LGBTIQ+ community, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled against the State of Honduras and in favor of Honduran Leonela Zelaya, a trans woman murdered more than two decades ago. The Court’s decision in the case, co-litigated by Red Lésbica Cattrachas and the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights…
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Holds the State of Honduras Internationally Responsible for Arbitrary Detention and Lack of Due Diligence in the Investigation of the Murder of Leonela Zelaya
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington, D.C., January 19, 2026]. The Red Lésbica Cattrachas and the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, representatives of the victims in the Leonela Zelaya et al. v. Honduras case, welcome the Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, notified today, in which the Court declared the international responsibility of the
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