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Dispatches from Detention: Detaining the Elderly and Infirm
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Buffalo Service Processing Center, Batavia, New York March 2024 “I’m sick and I’m scared and I don’t know what to do…
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International Petition Filed on Behalf of Stop Cop City Protester Killed by Police
Tags Share “Part of what our petition seeks to do is to really vindicate Tortuguita’s memory, to really let the world know that this was a young person full of promise. This was a young person who was dedicated to care for their fellow human beings, and a young person who was going to make…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests A public records lawsuit brought by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives revealed that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies to surveil protestors in 2020 and 2021. We obtained…
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Does the perception of crime match reality?
Tags Share Speaking with Louisiana’s NBC Local 33, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez analyzes the perception and politicization of “rising crime” – and advocates for alternatives to pro-prison policies.
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RFK Human Rights Urges U.S. Higher Education Institutions to Protect Civic Space
Tags Share RFK Human Rights proudly partners with activists around the world in defense of civic space. By protecting people’s ability to peacefully assemble and express matters of conscience before their governments, we work to accomplish Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s vision of a more just and peaceful world. Over the past week, students and faculty…
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Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Sue ICE And GEO Group For Physically Assaulting and Abusing Immigrant While Detained
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., April 29, 2024 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), and The Bronx Defenders sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the GEO Group, a private prison company, under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angel Argueta Anariba, a…
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Ballooning immigrant detention enrages advocates
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins 200 organizations nationwide in calling on the Biden administration to end our country’s cruel and unnecessary immigration detention system. Read The Hill piece in full here.
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Fighting poverty as a personal and political imperative
Tags Share According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond, poverty is more than an income level. It’s a lived experience – one that often strips individuals of their inherent dignity. “Poverty isn’t a line, it’s a constellation of social maladies and humiliations,” he said. “It’s the eviction notice, the debt collectors blowing up your phone,…
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Behind The Headlines: Proposed Rollbacks Of Criminal Legal Reforms Disconnected From Reality
Tags Share In California, the nation’s most populous state, opponents of criminal legal reforms are supporting a ballot initiative that aims to overturn a decade’s worth of previous ballot initiatives that reduced jail time for a number of property and drug crimes. The proposed rollback is the latest pro-prison initiative to gain steam in recent…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share SCOTUS Will Decide if Homelessness is a Crime On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant court case about the rights of people experiencing homelessness in decades. At its core, Grants Pass will decide whether cities are allowed to punish people for things…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detaining the Mentally Incompetent
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. South Louisiana Immigrations and Customs (ICE) Processing Center, Basile, Louisiana February 2024 “I don’t understand why I’m being tortured.” – Camila,…
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Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Tags Share “If the United States wants to claim that they are the leader of the free world and free speech, they have to answer for what’s going on in Atlanta.” Speaking with Truthout, staff attorney Delia Addo-Yobo explains why Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is requesting an investigation into the death of Manuel Esteban…
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