Authoritarianism

June 13, 2025

This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights

Tags Share Masked ICE Agents Detain 9-Month-Pregnant U.S Citizen in L.A. Crackdown A U.S. citizen in her ninth month of pregnancy was hospitalized with sharp stomach pains after being arrested — and later released — by ICE agents who accused her of obstructing the arrest of her undocumented husband. ICE has been conducting large-scale raids and arrests…
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June 5, 2025

RFK Human Rights v. Department of State: Ending the U.S. backroom deal to disappear people to a Salvadoran prison

This case challenges a secret and illegal agreement between the U.S. Department of State and the government of El Salvador that allows people deported from the United States—including asylum seekers, longtime U.S. residents, and even U.S. citizens, as threatened by the President—to be indefinitely detained in a notorious Salvadoran mega-prison in brutal conditions.
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May 19, 2025

Rolling Stone: El Salvador Arrests and Disappears Prominent Human Rights Attorney

Tags Share According to Rolling Stone, Ruth Eleonora López, a leading Salvadoran human rights and anti-corruption attorney, was arrested Sunday night by El Salvador’s National Civil Police, prompting urgent condemnation from Amnesty International and other global rights groups. López, who serves as Chief Legal Officer at Cristosal and who has been a vocal critic of…
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April 8, 2025

US violates human rights of non-citizens: coalition report to UN Human Rights Council for the 2025 Universal Periodic Review of the US

Receiving Body United Nations, Human Rights Council Report Type Submission for the 2025 US Universal Periodic Review Tags Submission Partners
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March 31, 2025

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. DHS: Fighting Mass Surveillance

Case Citation Coal. for Humane Immigrant Rts. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 2025 WL 1078776 (D.D.C. Apr. 10, 2025), appeal docketed, No. 25-5152 (D.C. Cir. Apr. 28, 2025) Tags Share Case Partners
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January 10, 2025

This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights

Tags Share LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding As of Thursday afternoon, more than 180,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as deadly fires ravage the city. Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 100 miles per hour whipped the blazes into a frenzy. According to an analysis by The Appeal, dozens of jails, prisons, and…
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December 8, 2023

Foro Penal Y RFK Human Rights Urgen a La Liberación Inmediata De Defensor De Derechos Humanos Y Activista Democrático en Venezuela

El 6 de diciembre de 2023, el Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN) detuvo arbitrariamente a Roberto Abdul-Hadi, defensor de derechos humanos y presidente de la ONG venezolana Súmate.
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December 8, 2023

Foro Penal And RFK Human Rights Call For The Immediate Release Of Human Rights Defender And Pro-Democracy Activist In Venezuela

Tags Share On December 6th, 2023, the National Intelligence Bolivarian Service (SEBIN for its initials in Spanish) arbitrarily detained Roberto Abdul-Hadi, a human rights defender and the President of the Venezuelan NGO Súmate. Abdul Hadi’s arrest was confirmed by his wife and reported to Foro Penal’s President Alfredo Romero, who disclosed that SEBIN agents detained…
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December 6, 2023

Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to…
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December 6, 2023

Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls…
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December 6, 2023

Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia

I believe that, as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. A government that can destroy such a barrier without erecting any others in the process is a good force. A government too weak for that is not only a waste but an evil…
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December 6, 2023

Speech in Chicago

Far too often, for narrow, tactical reasons, this country has associated itself with tyrannical and unpopular regimes that had no following and
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