Criminalization
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The Billion-Dollar Private Prison Companies Capitalizing On Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Tags Share After seeking asylum, 21-year-old Dulce Atahuaman Carhuancho was detained at a private ICE facility. A month later, she was hospitalized with a brain bleed and severe bruising, injuries her lawyers linked to trauma inside the center. Now, her family is suing Geo Group for negligence and a cover-up, as the company refuses to…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Reverses Biden Directive on Policing Reforms Hours into his return to the Oval Office, President Trump revoked an executive order that aimed to “advance effective, accountable policing and criminal justice practices to enhance public trust and public safety.” But Trump did not just revoke many of his predecessor’s reforms — he also in the process reversed…
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San Francisco Chronicle: In the U.S. there is no standard for police use of lethal force. SCOTUS can change that
Tags Share Nearly a decade after the tragic death of 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes, the Supreme Court is set to hear Barnes v. Felix, a civil rights case brought by Barnes’s mother to seek accountability for his unnecessary loss. In a contribution to an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Medha Raman, Dale and James…
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The Hill: The Laken Riley Act is a sweetheart deal for the private prison industry
Tags Share This week, the Senate began debating the Laken Riley Act, which seeks to expand mandatory immigration detention after its passage in the House. In The Hill, Anthony Enriquez, VP of U.S. Advocacy at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, criticized the inefficiency of mandatory detention and highlighted how it primarily benefits the private prison…
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Letter to President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, from Kerry Kennedy
Tags Share Your Excellency President Aliyev, COP29 has come to a close, but these past few weeks have the power to fuel lasting change. As global leaders, civil society organizations, and climate advocates return to their home countries, I urge you to use this momentum to commit to international human rights standards. As a longtime…
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Africa’s Premier Human Rights Institution Makes Landmark Decision on the Right to Vote in Ethiopia
Tags Share Right to vote upheld in Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Institute for Human Rights in Africa (for the people of Ethiopia) v. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. RFK Human Rights and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) welcome the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’s (the…
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Venezuela: End violent repression, guarantee protest and human rights
Tags Share In the context of the protests in Venezuela, international organizations condemn the high levels of violence and repression and demand that the authorities guarantee the right to protest and full respect for the rights to life, personal integrity and freedom. We, the undersigned organizations, demand respect for and guarantee of the right to…
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En el marco de las protestas en Venezuela organizaciones internacionales condenan los altos índices de violencia y represión y exigen a las autoridades garantizar el derecho a la protesta y el respeto pleno a los derechos a la vida, integridad personal, libertad
Tags Share En el marco de las protestas en el contexto post-electoral en Venezuela y ante el uso desproporcionado de la fuerza que se ha documentado por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad venezolanas, las organizaciones firmantes exigimos respeto y garantía del derecho a la libertad de expresión, reunión y protesta pacífica. Hacemos un llamado…
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Venezuela Presidential Election: International Organizations Call on Authorities to Guarantee Transparency
Tags Share Nine signatory international organizations condemn the lack of transparency in the announced results of Venezuela’s July 28 presidential elections. This lack of clarity raises serious questions about the fairness and integrity of the election, leading to widespread doubts about the credibility of the claim that Venezuelans awarded Nicolás Maduro a third presidential term.…
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CIDH reconoce responsabilidad estatal en las agresiones contra la prensa
Tags Share El pasado 8 de julio, junto con otras 24 organizaciones de la sociedad civil a nivel internacional, asistimos a la audiencia regional ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) para llamar la atención sobre la implementación de estrategias gubernamentales que amenazan y limitan el ejercicio de los derechos fundamentales de libertad de…
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Breaking Green: International Petition Filed on Behalf of COP City Protester Killed by Police with Anthony Enriquez
Tags Share On January 18th of last year, Manuel Esteban Páez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, a land defender protesting the construction of the police training complex “COP City” in Atlanta, Georgia, was killed by police gunfire. Authorities claim Tortuguita fired at officers, but forensic evidence suggests they were seated with their hands raised and…
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Truthout: Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Tags Share This month, several nonprofit organizations, including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), requesting an investigation into the police killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known as “Tortuguita.” According to…
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