Reports
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Beyond the Bridge: Anti-Haitian discrimination in U.S. immigration at the border and beyond
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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We Are Living Injustices I Cannot Even Name: report on human rights abuses at Pine Prairie, 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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RFK Human Rights Testimony on Solitary Confinement to the NYC Council Committee on Criminal Justice
In December 2020, RFK Human Rights submitted a testimony to the NYC Council Committee on Criminal Justice, commending the Council for its intention to end solitary confinement, yet highlighting how certain measures fell short.
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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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