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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Ethel Kennedy remembered as ‘spitfire,’ rights champion U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy at a memorial service in Washington on Wednesday after her death last week at age 96. US Immigration Agency Contract with Spyware Company Poses Risk…
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Behind the Headlines: The Urgency of Decarceration in the Fight for Climate Justice
Tags Share In October, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida, just weeks after Hurricane Helene, which killed over 200 people across six states. Scientists believe that the intensity and frequency of severe hurricanes in recent years is in large part due to climate change. In one of the largest and most urgent evacuation efforts in…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Several Florida jails and prisons refuse to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm. Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share The Essential Role of ‘Civic Space’ in Safeguarding Electoral Integrity: How a Decision in Africa Can Reverberate In a recent decision on Ethiopia’s 2015 elections, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), a body of the African Union, emphasized the crucial connection between civic space and the right to vote. It was a…
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Verite News: Lack of translation services pervasive in Louisiana immigration detention, advocates say
Tags Share A recent RFKHR report showed a “systematic denial of language access” that prevented asylum seekers from receiving protections and violated detainee’s rights and blocked their access to medical and legal services at Winn Correctional Center. Now, advocates say that language access issues stretch beyond that one facility and across the state of Louisiana…
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Energy Shift: An Interview with John Lewis Young Leaders Alumni Miguel Johnson
Tags Share Miguel Johnson is a JLYL alumni who is shifting career fields as he discovers more about the intersection between political science and community organizing. Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, Miguel is a recent graduate of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership where he majored in political science and minored in…
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A New Cohort of Changemakers: The 2024-2025 John Lewis Young Leaders
Tags Share Join us in welcoming the 2024-2025 cohort of John Lewis Young Leaders! Representing 15 distinct universities across the country, our second cohort of fellows has developed innovative capstones designed to create social change. We are pleased to support a wide array of projects from increasing digital literacy, to organizing DACA form clinics, to…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Over a decade of enduring and resisting statelessness in the Dominican Republic It was September 2013. I had managed to get accepted into university, but I still needed the identity card that would actually allow me to take classes. Then in the afternoon on Monday, 23 September 2013, at Centro Montalvo, we got…
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Lohud: New York man deported to Haiti, though he’s not a Haitian citizen, tells his story
Tags Share Paul Pierrilus details his harrowing experience being deported to Haiti, despite not ever having set foot in the country, in a new Lohud report. RFKHR Staff Attorney Sarah Decker spoke with Lohud about Pierrilus’ situation. “The pardon could help open a pathway for Pierrilus to receive humanitarian parole because his current situation…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Names Susan Livingston as 2024 Ripple of Hope Award Laureate
Tags Share NEW YORK, September 25, 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced Susan Clark Livingston, partner at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), as the latest recipient of its 2024 Ripple of Hope Award. Livingston and the four previously announced laureates will be honored at the organization’s annual Ripple of Hope Gala on December…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share False immigrant rumors threaten to unravel an American town on the upswing Springfield is a town on edge. It’s been five days since it was thrust into the national spotlight by baseless — and to many, racist — rumors of Haitian residents killing and eating wildlife and pets, and its economic comeback has…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Colombia Is the Deadliest Country for Environmental Activists, Report Finds Protecting the world’s most pristine ecosystems is essential to curb climate change and prevent biodiversity loss, but it also continues to be deadly. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, according to a report by Global Witness, an environmental watchdog…
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