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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Unresolved Violations of the Right to Nationality for Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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Colombia: Protecting Human Rights Defenders From Harassment
The Colombian government has a duty to stop this pattern of violence and persecution against human rights defenders.
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Briefing Paper: Denationalized Dominicans and Haitian Migrants at Risk
Tags Share Upon expiration of the National Regularization Plan for undocumented migrants and the end of the Dominican Republic’s official moratorium on deportations on June 17, 2015, tens of thousands of denationalized Dominicans and hundreds of thousands of migrants will be left unprotected from the discriminatory migration policies of the Dominican Republic. Individuals arbitrarily deprived…
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New Amicus Brief Defends Access to Abortions in Dominican Republic
Tags Share (May 8, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed an amicus curiae brief this week before the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic urging the Tribunal to uphold the constitutionality of a recent amendment to the Penal Code that decriminalized access to abortion when the woman’s life is at risk…
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Murder Sparks Femicide Reform
Like far too many other women, Claudina Isabel Velásquez Paiz was “a victim whose murder should not be investigated.”
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Femicide Reform Sought in Mexico
Cristina Escobar González’s murder spotlights ongoing impunity for those who commit violence against women in Mexico.
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Trans Murder Goes Uninvestigated
Police refused to investigate Leonela Zelaya’s case for 14 years, exhibiting the Honduran State’s disregard for trans people.
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Horrific Detention Conditions in Bahamas
The detention of Hatian-descended people in Nassau’s Carmichael Road Detention Center violates a host of human rights.
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Femicide Remains Rampant in Mexico
When these seven women were murdered or disappeared, the only thing police could find were excuses not to help.
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Four Human Rights Defenders Disappeared
Whereabouts of members of CERJ, which works endlessly to protect indigenous Guatemalans’ rights.
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Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican Face Statelessness
Juliana Deguis Pierre’s simple attempt to get ID card could leave hundreds of thousands without a country.
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Protecting Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican
When a new law rendered all Dominican people born to undocumented immigrants stateless, RFK Human Rights took action.
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