Latin America
We work alongside local organizations and human rights defenders to defend civic space and combat violence, repression, and discrimination in the region. Through strategic litigation and legal advocacy before the Inter-American Human Rights system and the United Nations, we work toward protecting human rights, seeking truth, justice, and redress for victims of human rights violations. From combating gender-based violence in Central America, historic racism against Dominicans of Haitian Descent, and systematic repression against critics in Venezuela and Guatemala to protecting freedom of the press in Colombia and Brazil, our mission is to create a region where justice, dignity, and equality prevail for all.
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RFK Human Rights, CERJ bring case of four forcibly disappeared Guatemalan human rights defenders to Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Tags Share On October 11th, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a hearing on the Pérez Lucas and others v. Guatemala case, regarding the enforced disappearance of four Indigenous human rights defenders during the country’s internal armed conflict. In 1989, as a result of their relentless work halting the forcible conscription of Indigenous peoples,…
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La Corte Interamericana celebrará una audiencia pública sobre caso de defensores de derechos humanos desaparecidos en Guatemala
Tags Share BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 – La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos celebrará una audiencia pública a las 9:30 a.m. CST el 11 de octubre sobre el caso Pérez Lucas y otros vs. Guatemala, los cuatro defensores de derechos humanos desaparecidos forzadamente por el Ejército de Guatemala en 1989 y cuyo…
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Inter-American Court to hold public hearing on disappeared Guatemalan Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. CST on October 11 on the case of Pérez Lucas et al. v. Guatemala, the four human rights defenders forcibly disappeared by the Guatemalan Army in 1989 whose whereabouts continue to be unknown.…
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Mexico Should Address Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express our deep concern at the continuing lack of accountability for acts of criminalization, including undue investigation of cell phone records, against human rights defenders Ana Lorena Delgadillo (director and founder of the Foundation for Justice and the Democratic Rule of Law (FJEDD)), Mercedes Doretti (scientist and expert in cases…
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Estado mexicano debería esclarecer criminalización de defensoras de derechos humanos
Tags Share Las organizaciones abajo firmantes expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la falta de esclarecimiento y sanción hasta la fecha de los actos de criminalización, incluyendo la obtención indebida de registros telefónicos, a las defensoras de derechos humanos Ana Lorena Delgadillo (directora y fundadora de la Fundación para la Justicia y el Estado Democrático de…
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Dominican Republic: for 10 years now, thousands of people are still deprived of their nationality
Tags Share Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.: September 25, 2023. In the face of the largest deprivation of nationality in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, the undersigned organizations demand that the Dominican government respect, promote, and protect the human rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent affected by Ruling TC-169-13 of the Constitutional Court…
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República Dominicana: desde hace 10 años, miles de personas continúan privadas de su nacionalidad
Tags Share Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.: Septiembre 25, 2023. Frente a la privación de nacionalidad más grande en la historia de América Latina y el Caribe, las organizaciones firmantes exigimos al gobierno dominicano a respetar, promover y proteger los derechos humanos de las personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana afectadas por la Sentencia TC-169-13 del Tribunal…
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International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Tags Share On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we pause to reflect upon the countless individuals across the globe who have endured the agony inflicted by State authorities and those affiliated with them. In these cases, the uncertainty surrounding the location of a beloved family member is an intentional method of…
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Protecting Immigrants’ Constitutional Right to Freedom from Arbitrary Detention
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…
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Human Rights under the Cuban Regime More than a Decade after Pro-democracy leaders’ Assassination
Tags Share 11 years ago today, on July 22, 2012, premier pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá and youth organizer Harold Cepero made their way across the island of Cuba on the central expressway headed to Santiago. Near Bayamo they were rammed off the road by an official government vehicle, killing both of them. Their driver, Spanish…
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Remembering Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá, 11 years after his murder
Tags Share Today we mark 11 years since Oswaldo Payá’s murder by the Cuban government. While we celebrate last month’s Inter-American Commission of Human Rights findings, more is needed: By having the U.N. remove Cuba as a member of its Human Rights Council, it demonstrates the international community is listening.
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Cuba: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting the Situation of the Right to Freedom of Association
Tags Share A medida que se aproxima el cuarto período del Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) de Cuba por parte del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, junto con Cubalex, Justicia 11J y Civil Rights Defenders, hemos presentado el siguiente informe. A raíz de la pandemia de COVID-19, con…
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