Africa
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Mahmoud Hussein Case
Tags Share Mahmoud Hussein is a prominent Egyptian journalist who works as a news editor for the Al Jazeera Media Network. He was arbitrarily detained by Egyptian authorities in late December 2016 and has been subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment for the past 129 days in detention, most of which has been spent…
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RFK Human Rights Submits UN Petition for Al Jazeera Journalist Mahmoud Hussein
Tags Share On April 29, 2017, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights submitted a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Mahmoud Hussein. Mr. Hussein is a prominent Egyptian journalist who works for Al Jazeera Media Network in Qatar, covering the European region. Mr. Hussein has been arbitrarily detained by…
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Petitioning the UN on Behalf of Uganda’s Stella Nyanzi
Nyanzi, a leading voice on sexual freedom and women’s rights, has been arbitrarily detained by Ugandan authorities since April 7, 2017.
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Stella Nyanzi Case
Tags Share Stella Nyanzi is a prominent academic, social activist, and human rights defender who has long been outspoken about sexual freedom and women’s rights in Uganda. Even though these issues are particularly sensitive in the country, Nyanzi has been unafraid to defend these rights and call out the government’s misconduct. She recently criticized Ugandan…
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Release Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla
Tags Share (March 27, 2017 | Washington D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Anti-Torture Initiative at the Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, call for the immediate release of human rights defender Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla, who has been held in military detention since January 17, 2017. He was…
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Rwanda Dismantles Human Rights Group
As head of LIPRODHOR, Laurent Munyandilikirwa fought for freedoms. Now RFK Human Rights fights alongside him.
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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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