United States
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Monroe v. United States: Dismantling barriers to accountability for police brutality
This case seeks to protect the human right to a remedy and reparation for survivors and victims of U.S. police brutality. It asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to instruct the United States to reform civil laws to ensure access to civil remedies for people subjected to police brutality.
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Austin American-Statesman: Political leaders use DEI as a smokescreen to roll back human and civil rights
Tags Share In a compelling op-ed, Fanta NGom, Director of Business and Human Rights at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, denounces recent federal budget cuts to school mental health services and rural infrastructure—moves justified by attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as “woke ideology.” NGom argues that this rhetoric is a smokescreen for a broader…
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One Student’s Fight for Florida’s Future Coastline
Tags Share Florida’s gulf coast is home to many natural wonders: diverse estuaries, lush mangrove forests, expansive beaches, and so much more. Having grown up surrounded by wetland ecosystems in St. Petersburg, Ava Thompson chose to dedicate her studies to preserving her home state’s ecology. Now a junior at Florida State University, Thompson is studying…
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WIRED: Computer Ban Gave the Government Unfair Advantage in Anti-War Activist’s Case, Lawyer Says
Tags Share In a high-stakes deportation case involving Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights advocates are raising the alarm over an unfair government advantage in court. WIRED recently reported on an incident in which Khalil’s ACLU attorney was barred from using her laptop during a pivotal immigration hearing, all the while government lawyers were granted…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share U.S. Press Freedom Falls to Historical Low Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index published annually by Reporters Without Borders. Press freedom in the U.S. now falls in line with developing countries, such as Gambia, Uruguay and Sierra Leone. While physical threats against journalists…
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Una nueva demanda busca restablecer los derechos humanos de las personas desaparecidas en detención incomunicada indefinida en El Salvador
Tags Share Read the press release in English here. Cuatro organizaciones líderes en materia de derechos humanos —la Clínica Internacional de Derechos Humanos de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Boston, el Centro de Estudios de Género y Refugiados (CGRS), el Consejo de Litigios Estratégicos Globales (GSLC) y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights…
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New Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Human Rights for Those Disappeared to Indefinite Incommunicado Detention in El Salvador
Tags Share Lea el comunicado de prensa en español aquí. Four leading human rights organizations—the Boston University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), the Global Strategic Litigation Council (GSLC) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR)—have filed a lawsuit seeking an emergency ruling by the Inter-American…
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Groups Ask Judge to Immediately Restore Civil Rights and Ombudsman Offices at Department of Homeland Security
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C. — Human rights and immigration advocate groups late yesterday asked a judge to issue a preliminary injunction to resume operations of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office, and Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, asking the court…
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Ceesay v. Kurzdorfer: Defending Due Process at ICE Check-ins
This case challenges the government’s practice of arbitrarily arresting people without notice at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) check-ins after years of reporting without incident under an order of supervision.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share International Tribunal Condemns U.S. Border Officials for Torturing, Killing Immigrant Nearly 15 years after Anastasio Hernández Rojas’ wife began pushing for justice in her husband’s killing, an international human rights commission found that U.S. border officials were responsible for his death — and that they tortured him before he died. This is the first time that…
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Fulton v. Noem: Ensuring access to medical care upon release from ICE detention
This case challenges the government’s refusal to provide discharge planning to a man scheduled for release from immigration detention who is almost certain to die unless provided dialysis.
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