The Bahamas
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Bahamian Emancipation Day Continues to Ring Hollow
Emancipation Day in The Bahamas cannot truly be celebrated for those at risk of statelessness.
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Grave Conditions at Carmichael Immigrant Detention Center
Tags Share Washington D.C. (June 12, 2020)—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins local human rights activists to express concern about the situation of migrants currently detained at Carmichael Road Immigrant Detention Center (“Carmichael Detention Center”) in The Bahamas, particularly in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, detainees’ concerns about COVID-19 in the facility…
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RFK Human Rights Urges The Bahamas to Halt Deportations Post Hurricane Dorian
Tags Share Washington, D.C., October 21, 2019 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is gravely concerned following the Bahamian government’s treatment of migrants, predominantly from Haiti, in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, and its intent to deport migrants who sought refuge in shelters after the hurricane. Discriminatory policies against Haitians and Bahamians of Haitian descent…
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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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Bahamas Migration Policy Causes Concern Among Human Rights Groups
RFK Human Rights and our partners have urged the Bahamian authorities to stop its discriminatory migration policies.
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Building Civil Society Skills with a Bahamas Human Rights Workshop
The workshop worked with participants to identify the main human rights issues in The Bahamas and develop strategies to address them.
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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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