Reports
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Cameroon: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Republic of Cameroon
Tags Share As part of the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cameroon by the UN Human Rights Council, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partnering organizations, Réseaux des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Centrale (REDHAC) and Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA), have submitted the following…
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Bangladesh: Joint Submissions for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Government
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bangladesh, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights alongside our partners have submitted the following reports. The first report was submitted together with Asian Legal Resource Center and Committee to Protect Journalists and the second report was submitted as part of a Bangladesh…
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Cuba: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting the Situation of the Right to Freedom of Association
Tags Share A medida que se aproxima el cuarto período del Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) de Cuba por parte del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, junto con Cubalex, Justicia 11J y Civil Rights Defenders, hemos presentado el siguiente informe. A raíz de la pandemia de COVID-19, con…
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WOLA and RFK Human Rights Concerned About Pre-electoral Conditions in Guatemala
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) jointly present a comprehensive fact sheet outlining their deep concerns regarding the pre-electoral conditions in Guatemala. The fact sheet sheds light on the challenges faced by the country in ensuring a fair and inclusive electoral process. WOLA and RFKHR express…
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Ending the Torture of Solitary Confinement of Afro-Descendent People
The United States wields solitary confinement against Afro-descendent people in municipal jails, state and federal prisons, immigration detention centers, and care settings for foster youth, causing devastating mental, physical, and emotional harm.
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Border policies and protection of the human rights of people in human mobility
Tags Share Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 the United States has used a public health law located at Title 42 of the United States Code to target Black migrants and asylum seekers for summary expulsion and pushbacks across the US-Mexico border. The law, last invoked in the 1920s to bar…
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by evidence the organizations presented at the recent…
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Western Sahara: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Kingdom of Morocco
Tags Share As the United Nations Human Rights Council prepares to conduct its fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Kingdom of Morocco, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners, the Sahrawi Organ against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM), the Nushatta Foundation for Media and Human Rights, and Right Livelihood, have submitted the following…
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Shadow Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Tags Share This Shadow Report is submitted for the combined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth periodic review of the United States (“US”) by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (“Committee”). The Report provides selected research and analysis focusing on US immigration and refugee laws, regulations, policies, and practices that subject Black non-citizens to racially…
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Criminal justice as a tool of political repression in Venezuela
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal have published a new report illustrating how the Venezuelan government systematically uses the criminal justice system to persecute critical voices, human rights defenders and perceived political opponents. The report, available in both English and Spanish, analyzes more than 480 arbitrary detentions that took place between…
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Six month anniversary Del Rio report details a living legacy of anti-Haitian discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share Six months after photos revealed mounted Border Patrol agents chasing and grabbing Haitian migrants to prevent them from bringing food to their families, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance have released a new report unveiling the full scope of the abuses that occurred in Del Rio, Texas, and in…
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New Practitioner’s Guide for the East African Court of Justice
As part of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ work to support strategic civic space litigation before international and regional mechanisms, we collaborated with the Pan African Lawyers Union to publish the Practitioner’s Guide for the East African Court of Justice. The guide is created for local and international litigants as well as journalists, academics, and…
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