Reports
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Human Rights Abuses in Louisiana ICE Jail
RFK Human Rights’ investigation with ISLA found a horrifying pattern of abusive solitary confinement at ICE’s Pine Prairie detention center in Louisiana.
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Enforced disappearance as a tool of political repression in Venezuela
Tags Share Enforced disappearance has been described as one of the most serious and cruel human rights violations, and is recognized under international law as a crime against humanity. This state-sanctioned practice of detaining people while refusing to acknowledge their fate is particularly alarming because it removes victims from the full protection of the law…
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UN Petition: LGBTQ+ People Arbitrarily Detained in Uganda
Tags Share On March 29, 2020, the government of Uganda raided an LGBTQ+ shelter under the guise of taking COVID-19 prevention measures and arbitrarily arrested 23 people because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Nineteen of these individuals were denied access to their lawyers for weeks and still remain unlawfully detained at Kitalya Prison…
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Voices From Kumarakapay
Tags Share Following a series of massacres in Kumarakapay and Santa Elena de Uairén in February 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal traveled to South America for a fact-finding mission gathering testimonies from Venezuelan survivors and witnesses alongside the Brazilian border. These rural indigenous communities were targeted and attacked by Venezuelan armed…
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Punitive Pretrial Detention in Egypt
Tags Share Ever since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power in June 2013, Egyptian authorities have increasingly sought to punish dissidents who dare to criticize the government and publish views that differ from the regime’s chosen narrative. In 2018, well over 100 people were arrested for exercising their right to freedom of expression, facing unfounded…
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Combating Statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Tags Share In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued a landmark ruling, Judgment 168-13, which retroactively took away citizenship rights from Dominicans of Haitian descent. In the five years since, the issue of statelessness has only grown more complex, leaving countless Dominicans of Haitian descent without access to nationality documents. Far from…
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Alternative Report on Violence Against Women in Mexico
Tags Share In Mexico, violence against women is undeniably widespread and pervasive, normalized by a culture of discrimination and perpetuated by enduring impunity. It’s estimated that at least 66 percent of Mexican women have suffered some type of gender-based violence in their lives. In particular, femicides, or the killing of women due to their gender,…
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Joint Submission by the Solidarity Group for Bangladesh
Tags Share The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council to assess and improve the human rights situation in each of the 193 UN member states. As the Council prepares to conduct its third UPR of Bangladesh, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners have published the…
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Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity in North Korean Political Prisons
Tags Share Since 1948, a succession of family leaders—Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un—have designed and perpetuated a brutal, totalitarian regime in North Korea, a signature feature of which is a network of political prisons that has no parallel in the world today. To date, hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have…
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Training Manual on Human Rights for Former Political Prisoners of Myanmar
Tags Share Over the course of Myanmar’s long and repressive recent political history, thousands of Myanmar citizens were arrested and jailed, simply for exercising their fundamental human rights. From the 88 Generation Protests to the Saffron Revolution, protesters, activists, journalists, lawyers, students and peaceful citizens of all stripes have paid for their dissent with their…
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Dreams deferred: The struggle of Dominicans of Haitian descent to get their nationality back
Tags Share On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued Judgment 168-13, ruling that it did not recognize the right to Dominican citizenship of hundreds of thousands of its citizens because they were the children of nonresident foreigners. The decision applied retroactively to generations of people who were born in the…
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