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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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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Case of 43 Missing Students in Mexico Continues to Stump Investigators
Tags Share With only three months remaining until the Group of Experts’ mandate expires, the international team tasked with investigating the case of the enforced disappearance of 43 students from Guerrero, Mexico, is facing serious obstacles in their quest to find the truth about the students’ demise in September 2014. A coordinated defamation campaign against
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Mexico: Ongoing Defamation Attacks in the Media
Tags Share Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the legal
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Martinez Gutierrez et al. v Mexico: Police Inaction in Juárez Disappearances
Seven Mexican women disappeared over five months. The police did little—and may be complicit in human trafficking.
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RFK Human Rights Wins Landmark Case for Victims of Femicide in Guatemala
In a landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held the government of Guatemala responsible for the disappearance and murder of 19-year-old Claudina Isabel Velásquez Paiz.
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Mexico Must Advance Investigation Into 43 Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students
Tags Share On the night of September 26, 2014, students in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero were violently attacked by local police; 43 students were detained and disappeared. The case of the forcibly disappeared students of Ayotzinapa is a painful example of the human rights crisis facing Mexico and has prompted international and country-wide indignation.
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Rights for Dominican Women Regress to the 19th Century
Tags Share In a recent decision, the Dominican Republic’s highest court struck down protections that allowed women to have an abortion in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed, or where continuing the pregnancy places the woman’s life in danger. The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision reinstates a total ban
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Dominican Republic Must Restore Citizenship to 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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Case of Murdered Colombian Journalist to be Heard by Inter-American Court
Tags Share MIAMI, Florida (November 2, 2015)—Calling it a “step of great importance,” the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomed the decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to submit the case of Nelson Carvajal to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and expressed their confidence that
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Letter Urges Mexico’s President to Increase Efforts to Find 43 Missing Students
Tags Share October 15, 2015 | Washington – In an open letter to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins leading human rights figures to call on the Mexican government to expend maximum effort and commitment to determine the whereabouts of 43 students of a teacher-training college in Ayotzinapa who were
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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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