Reports
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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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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Mahmoud Hussein Case
Tags Share Mahmoud Hussein is a prominent Egyptian journalist who works as a news editor for the Al Jazeera Media Network. He was arbitrarily detained by Egyptian authorities in late December 2016 and has been subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment for the past 129 days in detention, most of which has been spent…
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Stella Nyanzi Case
Tags Share Stella Nyanzi is a prominent academic, social activist, and human rights defender who has long been outspoken about sexual freedom and women’s rights in Uganda. Even though these issues are particularly sensitive in the country, Nyanzi has been unafraid to defend these rights and call out the government’s misconduct. She recently criticized Ugandan…
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Alternative Report to UN Human Rights Committee on Western Sahara
Tags Share The history of Western Sahara is a history of rights recognized, but not realized. A former Spanish colony, Western Sahara was annexed by Morocco in 1975 and has since been mired in a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people. While Morocco has no legitimate sovereignty over Western Sahara, as…
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Malek Adly Petition to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Malek Mostafa Adly Elgendy is a prominent human rights lawyer who has represented countless peaceful protesters and civil society organizations in Egypt. He was arbitrarily arrested in May 2016 as part of a wider crackdown by Egyptian authorities on all forms of critique and peaceful dissent. Since his arrest, Adly has been severely…
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UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Belady Foundation Case
Tags Share Aya Mohamed Nabeel Ahmed Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein Mostafa Fathallah are volunteers who founded and established the Belady Foundation, a well-respected organization based in Cairo that provides a safe haven for street children who have fled their homes and would otherwise be homeless and subject to exploitation. In May 2014, Mrs.…
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