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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Cartel-Focused Journalist Disappeared
Alfredo Jiménez Mota investigated cartel connections with Mexican public officials. Police have done little to find him.
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Colombia Liable for Journalist’s Murder
Nelson Carvajal was killed for exposing a web of government and business corruption in Colombia.
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RFK Human Rights Continues to Monitor Bahamian Detention Center
Tags Share In January, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy published “For immigrants trapped in The Bahamas, a paradise lost” in the Huffington Post after spending two days interviewing victims and human rights defenders in Nassau. She shed light on the inhumane conditions 700+ detainees experienced at Carmichael immigrant detention center, the country’s…
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An Unhappy New Year for Migrants in the Bahamas
Tags Share Normally, the start of a new year is a time of optimism and hope. This year, many in the Bahamas are awaiting December 31 with dread thanks to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’ declaration that migrants in an irregular status are to leave the country by that day or face aggressive deportation. Since Minnis’…
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RFK Human Rights Joins Coalition Fighting Impunity in Mexico
The group, called the International Observatory on Mexico, will set out to monitor and document the country’s deteriorating human rights situation.
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Mexican Congress Should Reject Law Normalizing Armed Forces in Public Security Tasks
Tags Share WASHINGTON, November 21, 2017 –– In recent days, the Mexican Congress has rushed discussions about the Law on Internal Security (Ley de Seguridad Interior, LSI) that would normalize the participation of Mexico’s armed forces in public security tasks. In the media and in public spaces, legislators from various political parties have insisted on…
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Bahamas Migration Policy Causes Concern Among Human Rights Groups
RFK Human Rights and our partners have urged the Bahamian authorities to stop its discriminatory migration policies.
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Strengthening Our Commitment to a World Free From Violence Against Women
Tags Share July 7, 1995, was the last day Ramona saw her teenage daughter, Silvia. Two months later, Silvia’s body was found on a ranch outside of Ciudad Juarez, México, a city notorious for epidemic rates of femicide, or the killing of women due to their gender. 22 years later, no one has been convicted…
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Building Civil Society Skills with a Bahamas Human Rights Workshop
The workshop worked with participants to identify the main human rights issues in The Bahamas and develop strategies to address them.
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Briefing: ‘Dreams Deferred’
Tags Share The Coordinator of the umbrella organization Dominican@s por Derecho and the Director of the Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible (CEDESO, Center for Sustainable Development), Beneco Enecia requested that Dominican authorities accept the responsibility of finding a definitive solution to the problems Judgment 168/13 has caused tens of thousands of people, particularly as Law 169-14…
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IACHR Grants Admissibility in Mexican Femicide Case
Tags Share On October 6, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights was notified by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of its decision to grant admissibility to six cases of femicide—the murder of women because of their gender—committed in Ciudad Juarez. The IACHR’s admissibility declaration is a critical step in the long fight for justice…
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Dispatch from Mexico
Tags Share BETWEEN OCTOBER 6TH AND 11TH, A DELEGATION FROM ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS VISITED THREE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF MEXICO TO BRING ATTENTION TO PERSISTENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. In Ciudad Juárez (state of Chihuahua), the delegation witnessed the impact of widespread violence against women, normalized by impunity. In particular, disappearances of women and high…
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