Africa
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Egypt on Wrong Side of Law With Arrest of Malek Adly
“The arrest of Malek Adly is yet another indication of the outrageous lengths that the Egyptian government will go to silence independent voices, especially those who are standing up for human rights,” says Kerry Kennedy.
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Need for Human Rights Monitoring Mechanism in Western Sahara
Tags Share (April 29, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomes the Security Council’s decision to reauthorize the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and calls for the mission’s restoration to full functionality. However, the mandate shamefully continues to lack a human rights monitoring and…
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Security Council Must Pass Strong Western Sahara Peacekeeping Mandate
Tags Share (April 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights calls on members of the United Nations Security Council to pass a strong mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), including a human rights monitoring and reporting mechanism. The Security Council must vote to extend the…
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Egypt Must Allow Its Civil Society to Flourish
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) condemn the actions of the Egyptian government taken to suppress peaceful protests planned for April 25 across Egypt, including government raids on the homes of activists and human rights defenders, arbitrary arrests, and the violent dispersal of protests by…
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Journalist Zelalem Workagegnehu Found Guilty Under Anti-Terror Law
Tags Share The Federal High Court Lideta 19 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, found blogger, journalist, and activist Zelalem Workagegnehu guilty under Article 7(1) of Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation on April 15, 2016. Though Zelalem denied his affiliations with any political party and believed in non-violent change, his charges and conviction under Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism laws are consistent…
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Kerry Kennedy Testifies Before Lantos Commission on Western Sahara
In her testimony, Kerry Kennedy called out the international community, including the United States government, for consistently failing to respond to the human rights abuses in Western Sahara.
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UN Must Press Morocco on Its Abuses in Western Sahara
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, has submitted an alternative report including a list of questions and recommendations for the United Nations Human Rights Committee to consider regarding Western Sahara as it reviews the Kingdom of Morocco’s human rights record. The submission presented by Robert…
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RFK Human Rights Welcomes Release of Mahmoud Hussein
Mahmoud was released on bail after being arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and unlawfully detained for 789 days.
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Historic Verdict in Jean-Pierre Bemba Trial
This is the first case to heavily focus on crimes of sexual violence as a weapon of war and a tool to terrorize a civilian population.
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Egyptian Government Continues Unjust Crackdown on Civil Society
Tags Share (March 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the Egyptian government’s escalating attempts to silence the country’s civil society, as the government moves to reopen Case No. 173/2011, popularly known as the “foreign funding case.” The first phase of the case resulted in 43 staff of international non-governmental organizations…
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Rwanda Restricting Access to African Human Rights Court
Tags Share March 17, 2016 – Today Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined a group of 40 leading African and international human rights organizations in a joint statement criticizing the government of the Republic of Rwanda for withdrawing individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – the highest human rights tribunal…
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New Report Highlights Grave Abuses Against Sahrawis in Western Sahara
Failure to counter these recurring and serious abuses underscores the need for a system of independent human rights monitoring in Western Sahara.
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