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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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John Lewis Young Leaders Fellow Saanvi Arora’s California Assembly Bill 2608 Passed Into Law
Tags Share “It felt so good” to see Governor Newsom sign Assembly Bill 2608 into law on July 15, 2024, exclaimed Saanvi Arora, a 2023-2024 John Lewis Young Leaders (JLYL) Fellow. AB 2608, drafted and lobbied for by Arora and other students, is a bill which ensures that students on college campuses in California receive…
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RFKHR Book Club Explores The Untold Story of the Ku Klux Klan and the Brave Woman Who Challenged Them
Tags Share On August 27, our latest Book Club conversation featured this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Award’s Honorable Mention, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. A Fever in the Heartland is a historical thriller by…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Uganda: 72 arrests in August alone as authorities continue to crack down on human rights defenders opposing oil development projects Ugandan authorities have once again intensified their repression of activists protesting the oil mega-projects that are being developed in the country’s Lake Albert region. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has documented…
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