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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Murder of Nelson Carvajal Should Be Declared a Crime Against Humanity
Tags Share Bogotá / Miami / Washington, DC, March 23, 2018 – Only a month away of the statute of limitations to apply to the murder of Colombian journalist Nelson Carvajal, the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP for its initials in Spanish)…
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IACHR Holds Hearing on Mexico’s New Internal Security Lawv
Tags Share PARA ESPAÑOL, HAGA CLIC AQUÍ Washington, D.C. / New York City / Stuttgart / Geneva, March 20, 2018 – The International Observatory on Human Rights in Mexico remains deeply concerned about the new Internal Security Law and the Mexican Government’s refusal to accept the Law’s implications. The International Observatory urges the Inter-American Commission…
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Merits Brief Submitted in Ciudad Juárez Femicides Case
Tags Share Working in partnership with CEDIMAC – an organization dedicated to supporting victims of gender-based violence and their families in Ciudad Juarez- we represent six women murdered and one child disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, and their families, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a case titled Silvia Elena Rivera Morales y…
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Framed Venezuelan Politician Released
José Vicente García Ramírez was arbitrarily detained for over a year for opposing President Nicolás Maduro.
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Human Rights Lawyers Forced Into Exile
Cubalex helped Cubans to understand their human rights—until the State stripped the group’s own from them.
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No Justice in Colombian Journalist Hit
In 1986, famed editor Guillermo Cano was murdered by Pablo Escobar’s men. To this day, his killers are unpunished.
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IACHR Releases Advisory Opinion on Gender Identity and Same-Sex Non-Discrimination
Tags Share On November 24, 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights adopted an Advisory Opinion on gender identity, equality, and non-discrimination for same-sex couples. In its Opinion, this regional human rights tribunal not only reaffirmed that gender identity and non-discrimination based on sexual orientation are protected by the American Convention on Human Rights, but…
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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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