Africa
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Defending Stella Nyanzi’s Online Activism
Arbitrarily detained and tortured for criticizing the Ugandan President on Facebook, Stella challenges Uganda’s clampdown on dissent.
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RFK Human Rights and Tahrir Institute Condemn Egypt’s New NGO Law
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy condemn Egypt’s new nongovernmental associations law, which was approved by the Egyptian parliament on Tuesday. The new 89-article law on civic organizations, which was drafted by Egypt’s House of Representatives, is a much more restrictive bill than the one proposed…
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RFK Human Rights Submits Report to UN
Tags Share Read the full report in English Read the full report in French (September 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, has submitted an alternative report to United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) to consider regarding Western Sahara as it reviews the…
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Alternative Report to UN Human Rights Committee on Western Sahara
Tags Share The history of Western Sahara is a history of rights recognized, but not realized. A former Spanish colony, Western Sahara was annexed by Morocco in 1975 and has since been mired in a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people. While Morocco has no legitimate sovereignty over Western Sahara, as…
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Morocco’s Noncompliance With MINURSO
Tags Share Last week marked 90 days since the UN Security Council demanded that the UN Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO) return to full functionality. As the deadline came and went, Japanese UN Ambassador Koro Bessho, Security Council president for July, lamented that “there was agreement by the (U.N.) secretariat as…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Police Raid of Uganda Pride Event
Tags Share (August 4, 2016 | Washington, DC) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the Uganda police’s raid of tonight’s event in Kampala celebrating LGBT Pride, as well as the unlawful detention of 2011 RFK Human Rights Award Laureate Frank Mugisha, Pepe Onziema, and other leading Ugandan LGBT human rights defenders. “These despicable actions…
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Egypt’s Egregious Prison Conditions
Tags Share Prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly, head of the legal unit for the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, has been held by Egyptian authorities in solitary confinement for 80 days. He is detained in a two by three square-meter cell and is not allowed recreation or exercise time. He is…
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Malek Adly Petition to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Malek Mostafa Adly Elgendy is a prominent human rights lawyer who has represented countless peaceful protesters and civil society organizations in Egypt. He was arbitrarily arrested in May 2016 as part of a wider crackdown by Egyptian authorities on all forms of critique and peaceful dissent. Since his arrest, Adly has been severely…
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RFK Human Rights Co-Sponsors Briefing on Civil Society Crackdown in Egypt
Tags Share On June 22, 2016, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) co-hosted a briefing titled, “Egypt’s Renewed Crackdown: The Struggle for Human Rights and Civil Society,” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The discussion featured TIMEP Executive Director Dr. Nancy Okail, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University…
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Political Space Continues to Shrink a Year After Elections in Ethiopia
Tags Share In the lead up to the 2015 parliamentary elections in the Federal Democratic of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian government used violence, intimidation, and repressive legislation, to brutally restrict democratic and political space. Such actions allowed the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to claim all of the 547 in Parliament, despite international concerns…
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Belady Foundation Case
Aya Mohamed Nabeel Ahmed Hijazi and Mohamed Hassanein Mostafa Fathallah, co-founders of the Belady (“My Country”) Foundation, have been unlawfully detained by the Egyptian government for over two years.
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Belady Foundation Case
Tags Share Aya Mohamed Nabeel Ahmed Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein Mostafa Fathallah are volunteers who founded and established the Belady Foundation, a well-respected organization based in Cairo that provides a safe haven for street children who have fled their homes and would otherwise be homeless and subject to exploitation. In May 2014, Mrs.…
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