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.
Tags Share MEDIA CONTACT Max Burnsburns@rfkhumanrights.org646-809-0120 Washington, 7 de agosto, 2017 | El activista de derechos humanos y abogado venezolano Alfredo Romero ha sido nombrado como el ganador del Premio Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights para el 2017, uno de los más altos reconocimientos al trabajo de defensa de los derechos humanos. Romero ha sido…
As executive director of Foro Penal Venezolano, Alfredo Romero has dedicated his life to protecting all Venezuelans from arbitrary detention and other human rights violations.
It is essential that any negotiations between the government and the opposition include openness to international human rights monitoring and verification.
Tags Share Download the full report: “Dreams Deferred: The Struggle of Dominicans of Haitian Descent to get their Nationality Back Download the full report in Spanish For tens of thousands of Dominican citizens of Haitian descent who are unable to get a national identity card, called a cédula, the future is worryingly uncertain. Yafreisi is…
Tags Share Today, on the 2017 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Red Lésbica Cattrachas have filed their arguments on the merits before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights in a transfemicide case against Honduras for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute the execution of Vicky Hernández,…
Tags Share On the night of May 10, which was Mother’s Day in Mexico, Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez, a human rights defender and the mother of a disappeared daughter, was shot to death in the state of Tamaulipas. The undersigned organizations express our profound concern about Miriam’s murder and urge Mexican authorities to take immediate…
Tags Share On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued Judgment 168-13, ruling that it did not recognize the right to Dominican citizenship of hundreds of thousands of its citizens because they were the children of nonresident foreigners. The decision applied retroactively to generations of people who were born in the…
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…
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…
The militarization of Mexico resulted in Bonfilio Rubio Villegas’s needless death.
When Guatemalan human rights defender Nicolás Mateo disappeared, his wife Paulina was left poverty-stricken and infirm.
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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