Reports
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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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UN Must Press Morocco on Its Abuses in Western Sahara
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, has submitted an alternative report including a list of questions and recommendations for the United Nations Human Rights Committee to consider regarding Western Sahara as it reviews the Kingdom of Morocco’s human rights record. The submission presented by Robert…
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Police Violence Against Black Americans
A thematic hearing submission to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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Briefing Paper: Punitive Use of Pretrial Detention in Egypt
Tags Share Since June 2013, Egyptian authorities have increasingly used pretrial detention as a punitive measure to silence activists, journalists, and peaceful political dissidents. The number of pretrial detainees in Egypt has exponentially increased and the periods of pretrial detention have exceeded international legal standards and even domestic maximums. Egypt’s legal framework violates its international…
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Briefing Paper: Denationalized Dominicans and Haitian Migrants at Risk
Tags Share Upon expiration of the National Regularization Plan for undocumented migrants and the end of the Dominican Republic’s official moratorium on deportations on June 17, 2015, tens of thousands of denationalized Dominicans and hundreds of thousands of migrants will be left unprotected from the discriminatory migration policies of the Dominican Republic. Individuals arbitrarily deprived…
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Briefing Paper: Imperiling the Right to Vote in Ethiopia
Tags Share As Ethiopia prepares to hold its parliamentary elections on May 24, 2015, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has written a briefing paper detailing several pre-electoral violations that jeopardize the right to vote and the right to participate in government in the country. Over the last several years, and with increasing intensity in recent…
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Western Sahara: Reported Human Rights Violations
Bi-annual report: July 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015.
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Gambia: Human Rights Abuses on the Rise
Tags Share Since seizing power in a 1994 military coup, President Yahya Jammeh has made Gambia one of the most repressive countries in all of Africa. In two decades of Jammeh’s rule, state-sanctioned torture, enforced disappearances, murders and arbitrary executions, and routine denials of other basic human rights have become commonplace. On December 30, 2014,…
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Western Sahara: Consequences of Failing to Monitor Human Rights Violations
Tags Share For nearly 40 years, both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguía el Hamra and Río de Oro (POLISARIO Front) have claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. After years of armed conflict, in 1991 the United Nations established the Mission for the Referendum in…
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