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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Women’s Rights Are Under Attack 30 Years After Leaders Adopted A Blueprint for Equality Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination remains deeply embedded in economies and societies. The report released Thursday…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share UN Chief Guterres Says Human Rights Are Being Suffocated By Autocrats and Warmongers U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says human rights are being “suffocated” around the world, lashing out at voices of division and anger who see them as a barrier to their quest for power and profit. In a speech to the Human Rights…
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The Tennessean: As U.S Justice Advocates, We Hold CoreCivic Responsible for TN Understaffing Woes
Tags Share In The Tennessean, a letter to the editor written by Anthony Enriquez, VP of U.S. Advocacy at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, exposes how private prison industry executives have exploited small-town workers while enabling the inhumane treatment of detainees- all for their profit. Enriquez highlights the empty promises made by private prison corporations…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Wants to Know if You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online Amid anger and protest over the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate “negative” social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents reviewed by…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Will Trump’s Executive Order Require Americans to Carry ID or Face Arrest? Among President Donald Trump’s slew of immigration-related executive orders signed in his first week is mention of an 80-year law that went largely unnoticed. In seeking to tighten border security, Trump invoked a rule requiring immigrants to carry identification proving their status — something civil-rights groups…
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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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Univision: The Laken Riley Bill: Which Immigrants Can Be Affected and Who Will Benefit?
Tags Share The proposed Laken Riley Act is drawing sharp criticism from human rights advocates as it would allow the government to detain undocumented immigrants based on arrests or accusations, not just convictions. Supporters say it’s about public safety, but critics – including Anthony Enriquez, Vice President of Advocacy and Litigation at Robert F. Kennedy…
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The family’s right to truth and transparency in investigations of U.S. police killings: report to UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Receiving Body United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,Summary or Arbitrary Executions Report Type Submission for the report of the Special Rapporteur at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council Tags Partners
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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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