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Dianna Ortiz
Biography Dianna Ortiz is an Ursuline nun from New Mexico who journeyed to Guatemala in the early 1980s as a missionary, teaching Mayan children in the highlands. After months of receiving threats, Ortiz was abducted and brutally raped by armed men in November 1989. One of the men overseeing the torture appeared to be American.…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Book and Journalism Awards Winners
Tags Share NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2023 RFK Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony with remarks by President Kerry Kennedy and featuring special guest presenters Michael Beschloss, David Cullen, Peggy Engel, Peniel Joseph, Rory Kennedy, Nick Kristoff, Arantxa Loizaga, Craig…
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AP-NORC and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Survey: Americans are concerned about threats to the free press
Tags Share Chicago, IL and New York, NY, May 1, 2023 — Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, May 3, a new study from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals Americans are concerned about attacks on journalists, restrictions on press freedoms, and the spread…
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New York’s Largest Immigrant Detention Center Inflicts Abuse In Secret
This case is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to policies and procedures governing conditions of confinement in the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (BFDF).
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Anti-Haitian Discrimination Taints The U.S. Immigration System
This case is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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United States Inflicts Cruel And Degrading Treatment On Transgender People In Immigration Detention
This case is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to standards of care for transgender people in immigration detention.
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