We work alongside local and international organizations and human rights defenders to protect civic space and promote accountability for serious human rights violations in South and South East Asia. From advocating for freedom of expression and the right to protest to an end to the use of torture, enforced disappearance, and arbitrary detention, we support international justice efforts.
Tags Share The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council to assess and improve the human rights situation in each of the 193 UN member states. As the Council prepares to conduct its third UPR of Bangladesh, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners have published the…
Tags Share His Excellency António Guterres Secretary-General United Nations 12 February 2018 Dear Secretary-General Guterres: On December 28, 2017, Iranians took the streets in peaceful protest in Mashhad, one of Shiite Islam’s holiest places. Within days, thousands of Iranians throughout the country had joined in similar demonstrations. The protestors were responding to declining economic conditions,…
Tags Share As the ASAN Fellow at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, I am gaining a tremendous amount of exposure to human rights issues from around the world. A panel discussion hosted on February 1 by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Guernica 37, and the Georgetown University Law Center’s Human Rights Institute was the latest…
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, along with other civil society organizations, today sent a letter to the President of Bangladesh and the President of the National Human Rights Commission expressing serious concern regarding the version of the Digital Security Bill 2018 that recently passed the Cabinet. The Bill is likely to be introduced…
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, along with other civil society organizations, today sent a letter to the President of Bangladesh and the President of the National Human Rights Commission expressing serious concern regarding the version of the Digital Security Bill 2018 that recently passed the Cabinet. The Bill is likely to be introduced…
The report calls for North Korean officials to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity committed in the country’s political prisons.
Tags Share Since 1948, a succession of family leaders—Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un—have designed and perpetuated a brutal, totalitarian regime in North Korea, a signature feature of which is a network of political prisons that has no parallel in the world today. To date, hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have…
Tags Share Over the course of Myanmar’s long and repressive recent political history, thousands of Myanmar citizens were arrested and jailed, simply for exercising their fundamental human rights. From the 88 Generation Protests to the Saffron Revolution, protesters, activists, journalists, lawyers, students and peaceful citizens of all stripes have paid for their dissent with their…
Journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul was covering a violent clash between factions of the Awami League political party when he was shot and killed.
Tags Share (January 18, 2017 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the decision by the Bangladesh High Court Division of the Supreme Court to allow the case against Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan to go forward. Mr. Khan is the Secretary of Odhikar, one of the most respected human rights organizations…
Tags Share (November 30, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomed the release today of Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights activist who had been arbitrarily and illegally detained since September 16, 2016. In an order issued November 25, 2016 by Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar of the High Court of Jammu…
Tags Share (October 25, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) In a letter addressed to India’s Home Affairs Minister today, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights called for the immediate release of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who has been arbitrarily detained since September 16, 2016. He is the coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil…
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