Crimes Against Humanity
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Exigimos la Inmediata Liberación de la Defensora de Derechos Humanos Rocío San Miguel
Tags Share Exigimos la Inmediata Liberación de la Defensora de Derechos Humanos Rocío San Miguel Febrero 12/2024 Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y las personas que suscriben este pronunciamiento, expresamos nuestro más firme rechazo a la detención arbitraria y la desaparición forzada por más de 60 horas de la defensora de derechos humanos Rocío…
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International organizations express concern over revived legislation aiming to criminalize and obstruct civil society work in Venezuela
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express deep concern over the ongoing efforts by the Venezuelan government to pass the bill entitled “Law of Supervision, Regularization, Performance, and Financing of Non-Governmental and Related Organizations” (Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales y Afines). This legislation, which was introduced and initially approved…
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Bangladesh: Odhikar published its Annual Human Rights Report 2023
Tags Share Despite the continuous harassment imposed by the Bangladesh Government, Odhikar published its Annual Human Rights Report 2023. The report documents the human rights situation in the country, based on information collected by human rights defenders, data published in the media and is based on international human rights instruments and standards. Read the report.
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CIDH refiere el caso de la Masacre de El Junquito ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Tags Share Foro Penal y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights celebran la decisión tomada por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) de remitir el caso de la Masacre de El Junquito contra Venezuela a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos el pasado octubre. Este caso, en el cual las organizaciones actúan como representantes de…
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IACHR refers case of El Junquito Massacre to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Tags Share Foro Penal and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome the IACHR’s decision to refer the Case of El Junquito Massacre against Venezuela to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights last October. This case, in which both organizations act as victims’ representatives, refers to the extrajudicial executions of Oscar Pérez and six other victims…
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Out of sight, out of mind: How new film ‘The Zone Of Interest’ challenges all of us to be vigilant in protecting and defending human rights
Tags Share This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document outlining the basic fundamental rights we have because we are human. A document drafted soon after WWII with the hope and desire that the atrocities witnessed would happen “never again.” An aspirational document proclaiming in the first…
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Fred T. Korematsu
Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the Supreme Court…
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Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Mairead Corrigan Maguire was not actively involved with the Northern Ireland peace movement until she came face-to-face with violence in 1976. On August 10th, Danny Lennon and John Chillingworth of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), were driving through Belfast, with a rifle in their car. The IRA wanted to form a united Ireland through…
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was brought up in a closely knit Jewish community in Sighet, Transylvania (Romania). When he was fifteen years old, his family was herded aboard a train and deported by Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister died at Auschwitz—two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were then taken…
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Kateryna Yushchenko
A child of Ukrainian WWII immigrants to Chicago, she came to Ukraine in 1991 to run the US-Ukraine Foundation, which she co-founded to support democratic and free market development in newly-independent Ukraine. Before moving to Ukraine, Kateryna held positions at the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Department of Treasury, The White House, State Department, and…
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Emir Suljagić
Emir Suljagić is a journalist, activist and the Director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial since 2019. Suljagić holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. His most recent research focuses on the role the Bosnian Serb Assembly played in the process of socially constructing Bosniaks as “Turks” within the context of the…
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Baltasar Garzon
Biography: Judge Baltasar Garzón has made an illustrious career taking on powerful enemies, specializing in cases against government corruption, organized crime, terrorists, state antiterrorism units, and drug lords. In 1973 Augusto Pinochet led a bloody military coup against democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende of Chile. Pinochet’s seventeen-year reign of terror was characterized by human…
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