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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In Support of Colombian Protection Action for Human Rights Defenders
RFK Human Rights presented an amicus brief on the right to defend human rights before the Colombian Constitutional Court.
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Venezuelan Authorities Must Free Human Rights Defender Orlando Moreno
The Venezuelan state must end the harassment, illegal detention, and criminalization of human rights defenders.
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Colombia Must Investigate Attacks Against Journalist Jineth Bedoya
Tags Share On May 25, 2000, Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya, who was then working for El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, was kidnapped in front of the Bogotá Model National Prison, where she had gone to conduct an interview. Bedoya was kidnapped for 16 hours, during which time she was subjected to physical, sexual, and psychological…
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How the Climate Crisis Impacts Women’s Rights in the Caribbean
Tags Share BY GABRIELA VALENTIN Globally, the climate crisis has a disproportionate impact on women’s access to their human rights. This is certainly the case in the Caribbean, where the climate crisis is worsening existing gender inequities. From Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, to earthquakes in Puerto Rico, and volcanic eruptions in St. Vincent, the…
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Joint Amicus Brief Supports Colombian Protection Action for Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share International Service for Human Rights, Front Line Defenders, (the Center for Information on Business and Human Rights, CIVICUS, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights presented an amicus brief on the right to defend human rights as an autonomous right before the Colombian Constitutional Court on April 21, 2021. Colombia is the most deadly…
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Venezuela Must Cease Repression of Civil Society
Venezuela needs a peaceful solution to its human rights crisis, which will not be possible without an active and independent civil society pushing it forward.
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Amicus Brief Calls for Colombia to Better Protect Journalists
In our amicus brief with GW Law School, we argue that the State of Colombia had a reinforced due diligence duty to prevent and investigate the violence suffered by Bedoya for being a woman, a journalist, and a human rights defender in the country’s armed conflict context.
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The Dominican Republic’s Century-Long History of Racism
The Dominican Republic wants to build a border wall. It should learn from America’s mistakes.
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Colombia: Ensure Justice for Killed Protester
Colombian authorities should respect the right of peaceful assembly and ensure independent investigations of the police and its use of force against protesters.
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Colombia Debe Asegurar Justicia Por Homicidio De Manifestante
Human Rights Watch Y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Presentan Amicus Ante Corte Constitucional
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Comunicado Sobre La Decisión De La Suprema Corte De Justicia De La República Dominicana en Relación a La Nulidad Del Acta De Nacimiento Original De Juliana Deguis Pierre
Tags Share El Movimiento Socio-Cultural de los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA), el equipo legal de la Red Jacques Viau, la Fundación Derechos Vigentes, el Instituto Internacional sobre Raza, Igualdad y Derechos Humanos y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la decisión adoptada el 27 de febrero de 2021 por la Suprema Corte…
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Denationalization and Anti-Immigrant Policies in the Dominican Republic
Tags Share The Socio-Cultural Movement of Haitian Workers (MOSCTHA for its Spanish acronym), the legal team of the Jacques Viau Network, the Fundación Derechos Vigentes, the Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights express our deep concern over the decision adopted on February 27, 2021 by the Dominican Republic’s…
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