Authoritarianism
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USA Today: I was wrongfully imprisoned abroad. The US must do more to help people like me.
Tags Share In 2020, Paul Rusesabagina was kidnapped and wrongfully imprisoned by the Rwandan government for speaking out against President Paul Kagame and his repressive government. With the support of his family, human rights organizations, and Hollywood celebrities, his story gained international attention, ultimately enabling the U.S. government to secure his release after 939 days
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Mata Velasquez v. Kurzdorfer: Stopping courthouse arrests of immigrants
Federal court holds that ICE violated due process by detaining asylum seeker it had previously released on parole without first giving written notice.
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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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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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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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Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. DHS: Fighting mass surveillance
This case challenges the creation of a national registration scheme for non-citizens in the United States that would encourage racial profiling.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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