Arbitrary Detention
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NGOs call for protection of journalists and freedom of expression in Cambodia and Việt Nam ahead of UN human rights review
Tags Share Journalists working in Cambodia and Việt Nam are routinely threatened, subject to mistreatment, and detained for their reporting and commentary, with many imprisoned and denied basic rights, according to two new reports on press freedom and freedom of expression submitted to the United Nations. A report on Việt Nam was jointly submitted by
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Việt Nam: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights Abuses
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Việt Nam that is taking place in Geneva next year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Freedom House, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), submitted a joint report, with the support of Covington & Burling LLP. The report provides a
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Cambodia: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cambodia that is taking place in Geneva next year, Freedom House, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) submitted a joint report, with the support of Covington & Burling LLP. The report documents the human rights abuses committed by the government
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Inter-American Court to hold public hearing on disappeared Guatemalan Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. CST on October 11 on the case of Pérez Lucas et al. v. Guatemala, the four human rights defenders forcibly disappeared by the Guatemalan Army in 1989 whose whereabouts continue to be unknown.
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La Corte Interamericana celebrará una audiencia pública sobre caso de defensores de derechos humanos desaparecidos en Guatemala
Tags Share BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA, 10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023 – La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos celebrará una audiencia pública a las 9:30 a.m. CST el 11 de octubre sobre el caso Pérez Lucas y otros vs. Guatemala, los cuatro defensores de derechos humanos desaparecidos forzadamente por el Ejército de Guatemala en 1989 y cuyo
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Egypt: RFK Human Rights Calls for the Immediate Release of Mahmoud Hussein
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the re-arrest and arbitrary detention of Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, who already spent over two years in pretrial detention for wearing an anti-torture t-shirt. We are deeply concerned by reports of Mahmoud’s deteriorating health and demand his immediate and unconditional release. We also call upon the
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Somali Journalists Syndicate and RFK Human Rights Submit Communication to UN Human Rights Committee for Somali Journalist Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) have submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee for the case of exiled Somali journalist and human rights defender, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin. Mumin is a renowned journalist who was thrice arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured by Somali state security forces
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Bangladesh: Quash conviction and release rights defenders
Tags Share (September 14, 2023) Bangladesh authorities should immediately release human rights defenders Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, quash their convictions, and end all reprisals against them for their legitimate human rights work, said 72 organizations today. Khan and Elan were sentenced by the Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka to two years’ of prison
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US violates human rights of Black immigrants: shadow report to UN Human Rights Committee for the fifth periodic review of the US under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Receiving Body United Nations Human Rights Committee Report Type Shadow report for the fifth periodic review of the United States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Tags Partners
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SJS and RFK Human Rights call for Mohamed Bulbul’s immediate release
Tags Share MOGADISHU/ WASHINGTON DC – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) strongly denounce the ongoing arbitrary detention of SJS Information and Human Rights Secretary, Mohamed Ibrahim Osman Bulbul and demand his immediate and unconditional release. We are deeply alarmed by the growing trend of attacks against journalists and
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Bangladesh: Joint Submissions for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Government
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bangladesh, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights alongside our partners have submitted the following reports. The first report was submitted together with Asian Legal Resource Center and Committee to Protect Journalists and the second report was submitted as part of a Bangladesh
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Q&A and Analysis: WOZA V. Zimbabwe
Tags Share In November 2022, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a positive decision in Communication 446/13 between Jennifer Williams, Magodonga Mahlangu, and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and the Republic of Zimbabwe. Finding that the government of Zimbabwe violated the Complainants’ rights to freedom of association, assembly, and expression and their
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