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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Guatemala Must Support Reforms in Favor of Judicial Independence
Tags Share (February 13, 2017, Washington D.C., New York, San José Costa Rica, and Guatemala City). The signatory organizations observe with concern the recent scandals related to influence peddling and manipulation of the elections processes of the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala, in which Judges Blanca Stalling and Eddy Orellana are publicly implicated. These…
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In Bogota, a New Opportunity for Human Rights Education
Tags Share “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” We live in a time of destruction across the globe, where the greatest threat to peace is not an army or a nuclear war, but hate itself. Hate takes so many forms – Boko Haram in Nigeria, ISIS in Iraq and…
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Mexican Military Checkpoint Turns Deadly
The militarization of Mexico resulted in Bonfilio Rubio Villegas’s needless death.
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Wife of Disappeared Activist Protected
When Guatemalan human rights defender Nicolás Mateo disappeared, his wife Paulina was left poverty-stricken and infirm.
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RFK Human Rights Petitions IACHR on Extrajudicial Execution of Naua Native
Tags Share (Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero – Washington D.C., 12 de enero de 2017) The Centro de Derechos de la Montaña (Tlachinollan), the Centro de Derechos Humanos José María Morelos y Pavión (Centro Morelos) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on January 2nd, 2017 against…
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RFK Human Rights, CEDIMAC Petition IACHR on Ciudad Juárez Disappearances
The petition filed on behalf of seven women disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2011 denounces Mexico for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute these violent femicides.
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Organizaciones internacionales solicitan se garantice el debido proceso y la integridad del fiscal Orlando López
Tags Share (Ciudad de Guatemala, San José y Washington D.C., 28 de septiembre de 2016) Orlando Salvador López, recientemente separado de su cargo como jefe de la Fiscalía de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio Público de Guatemala, fue detenido en su domicilio el pasado jueves 22 de septiembre, acusado de haber ocasionado la muerte a un…
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Organizations Call on Dominican Government to Investigate Attack on Human Rights Defender
Tags Share (Washington DC | September 28th, 2016) Last Sunday September 25, at 7:30 in the evening, Genaro Rincon, a lawyer and activist with the organizations Movimiento Socio-Cultural Para Los Trabajadores Haitianos (MOSCTHA) and Derechos Vigentes was attacked, beaten, and threatened with death on a public bus in Santo Domingo by two individuals after identifying…
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Protecting Due Process Rights of Guatemalan Prosecutor Orlando López
Tags Share HAGA CLICK AQUI PARA ESPAÑOL (September 28, 2016 | Guatemala City, San Jose and Washington D.C.) Orlando Salvador López, who was recently removed from his office as Chief Prosecutor of the Human Rights unit of the Public Ministry of Guatemala, was detained at his home this past Thursday, September 22nd. Mr. López is…
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Venezuela Must Ensure Safety of All Peaceful Protesters
Tags Share (August 31, 2016 | Washington DC) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights urges the Venezuelan government to ensure the protection and safety of the people participating in a peaceful protest to be held September 1st in Caracas, including the safety of journalists who will cover this public demonstration. Likewise, it expresses its concern over…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Arbitrary Detention of Activists in Venezuela
The continued arbitrary detention of Francisco Marquez and Gabriel San Miguel, two young opposition activists, illustrates how far the government of Venezuela is willing to go to crack down on dissent.
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Assassination of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres
Tags Share (March 4, 2016 I Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins the voices of the human rights community to condemn the killing of Berta Cáceres and call for a full and swift investigation of this awful crime. Berta, a courageous Honduran human rights defender and environmental activist from the Lenca indigenous people,…
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