Crimes Against Humanity
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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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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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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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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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Guillaume Ngefa Atondoko
Biography: Researching, recording, and exposing grave human rights abuses committed by Zaire’s notorious dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, Guillaume Ngefa risked his life on a daily basis. As founder and president of his country’s premier human rights organization, L’Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l’Homme (African Association for the Defense of Human Rights, or ASADHO),…
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Foro Penal and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) call for the Honorable Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to uphold the Pre-Trial Chamber I Decision to resume investigations into crimes against humanity in Venezuela
Tags Share In a landmark two-day hearing, the Appeals Chamber of the ICC engaged in a comprehensive review of the State of Venezuela’s appeal against Pre-Trial Chamber I Decision on the Resumption of investigations by the Prosecutor’s Office. This historic hearing marked the first time a public hearing was held on this situation, and victims…
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El Foro Penal y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) piden a la Honorable Sala de Apelaciones de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) que confirme la decisión de la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I de reanudar las investigaciones sobre crímenes de lesa
Tags Share En una histórica audiencia de dos días, la Sala de Apelaciones de la CPI llevó a cabo una revisión exhaustiva de la apelación del Estado de Venezuela contra la Decisión de la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I sobre la reanudación de las investigaciones por parte de la Fiscalía. Esta audiencia marcó la primera…
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Las víctimas de Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad en Venezuela tendrán voz este martes 7/11 en audiencia de la Corte Penal internacional
Tags Share La Haya, 6 de noviembre de 2023: La Sala de Apelaciones de la Corte Penal Internacional ha programado la primera audiencia pública de la Situación Venezuela I para los días martes 7 y miércoles 8 de noviembre a las 9 de la mañana, hora estándar de Europa Central (CET). La Situación Venezuela I,…
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The victims of Crimes against Humanity in Venezuela will have a voice this Tuesday, 7/11, in a hearing at the International Criminal Court
Tags Share The Hague, November 6, 2023: The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has scheduled the first public hearing for Situation Venezuela I for Tuesday, November 7, and Wednesday, November 8, at 9 a.m. Central European Time (CET). Situation Venezuela I focuses on the investigation of crimes against humanity, including arbitrary detentions, torture,…
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Experts call on the international community to engage in specific recommendations during the Universal Periodic Review on Bangladesh
Tags Share Ahead of the 44th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) scheduled for November 13, 2023, four experts called on U.N. member states to urge Bangladesh to cease the continuing violations faced by human rights defenders, journalists, and critical voices within the country, during a virtual…
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