Tags Share Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed a gubernatorial pardon application on behalf of Paul Pierrilus, a financial consultant from New York. The organizations are asking Governor Kathy Hochul to facilitate Pierrilus’ immediate return to New York following his sudden deportation to Haiti in 2021 – a country…
Tags Share Immigrants have a constitutional right to be free from arbitrary detention according to a new federal court ruling secured by the RFK Human Rights U.S. Advocacy and Litigation team. Staff attorney Sarah Decker represents Mr. Yvesni Cenesca, a man from Haiti fighting deportation while locked up for the past 3 years in an…
Tags Share LOS ANGELES, MARCH 9, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), the Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), Alternative Chance, the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law testified today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights…
Tags Share Washington DC, February 2, 2023 – Two years ago today, on Feb. 2, 2021, the Biden-Harris administration put Paul Pierrilus, a finance consultant from New York, on a deportation flight to Haiti. Born in St. Martin to Haitian parents but raised in New York, Paul was not from and had never been to…
Tags Share Loune Viaud’s remarks at 2002 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony I am grateful to the Kennedy family for this prestigious recognition and thankful to the staff of the RFK Memorial for all their hard work in getting the ceremony together. I also want to thank the staff of Partners in Health, and the…
Tags Share En el año 2013, el Tribunal Constitucional de la República Dominicana emitió la Sentencia 168-13, que eliminó de manera retroactiva el derecho a la nacionalidad a personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana. En los nueve años transcurridos desde esta decisión, el problema de la apatridia se ha vuelto más complejo, dejando a innumerables dominicanos…
Tags Share In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued judgment 168-13, which retroactively took away the right to nationality from Dominicans of Haitian descent. In the nine years since, statelessness in the country has only grown more complex, leaving countless Dominicans of Haitian descent without access to nationality documents. Far from just…
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15th, 2022 Contact: Alexandra Gulden [email protected] Washington DC—On the one-year anniversary of the human rights disaster in Del Rio, Texas, the Quixote Center and 19 organizational co-sponsors are delivering a petition to the White House calling on the Biden administration to halt all removals of Haitian migrants, including interdictions…
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Human Rights Award laureate Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, addressed the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international human rights treaties the country has signed on to. A key partner, Jozef…
Tags Share This Shadow Report is submitted for the combined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth periodic review of the United States (“US”) by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (“Committee”). The Report provides selected research and analysis focusing on US immigration and refugee laws, regulations, policies, and practices that subject Black non-citizens to racially…
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