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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share International Tribunal Condemns U.S. Border Officials for Torturing, Killing Immigrant Nearly 15 years after Anastasio Hernández Rojas’ wife began pushing for justice in her husband’s killing, an international human rights commission found that U.S. border officials were responsible for his death — and that they tortured him before he died. This is the first time that…
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Associated Press: Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted
Tags Share Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department’s broad mission. The lawsuit was filed Thursday by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, the Southern Border Communities Coalition, and the Urban Justice Center. On March…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Guts Key Civil Rights Protections With New Executive Order On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would further weaken civil rights protections and make it more difficult for plaintiffs to prevail in discrimination cases in areas such as education, housing, health care and public benefits. The order instructs federal agencies to stop enforcing laws and regulations…
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RFK Human Rights v. Noem: Fighting for Accountability in Immigration Enforcement
Case Citation Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights et al. v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec. et al., 1:25-cv-01270 (D.D.C. filed Apr. 24, 2025) Tags Share Case Partners
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New York Times: Lawsuit Aims to Reverse Firings at Internal Oversight Offices Within D.H.S.
Tags Share An assortment of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday aimed at stopping the Department of Homeland Security from permanently shuttering its internal oversight divisions after the Trump administration fired critical staff members, grinding operations to a halt. The lawsuit was filed in New York and brought by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights,…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Directs Judges to Deny Asylum Without Hearings A new Trump administration policy urges immigration judges to swiftly deny asylum to migrants whose applications they deem unlikely to succeed. The expedited dismissals would circumvent the normal hearing process, which typically takes years to wind through the backlogged courts. Trump Measures Make Life…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump’s Attacks On Press Freedom Are Paving The Way For Authoritarianism A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.” In 2024, the Democrats ran on the catchphrase “We are not going back.” Even after the party’s resounding defeat,…
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Arusha Initiative Hosts Second Town Hall
Sign up to get the latest on the Arusha Initiative and African human rights news. Subscribe to the Justice Roundup newsletter for our advocacy and litigation newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox. Tags Share On March 26, the Arusha Initiative held its second virtual Town Hall. Participants discussed the importance of transparency and accountability within…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Advances Immigration Crackdown On Foreign Student Protesters The Trump administration is ramping up penalties against students who engaged in protests against the war in Gaza, revoking the visas of hundreds of alleged demonstrators. The Trump administration is ramping up penalties against students who engaged in protests against the war in Gaza, revoking…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Judge Rules DOGE’s USAID Dismantling Likely Violates The Constitution The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer…
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African Court admits RFK Human Rights and IHRDA as amici curiae in case on electoral rights in Tanzania
Tags Share The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has granted the request by the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) to intervene as amici curiae in the case Ado Shaibu and 5 Others v. United Republic of Tanzania (Application 046/2020). The…
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Confronting the Digital Rights Crisis: Insights from RightsCon Taipei
Tags Share Two weeks ago, every hallway and corner of the Taipei International Convention Center buzzed with digital rights advocates strategizing, innovating, and forging solutions. In a global moment of unprecedented uncertainty, RightsCon provided a platform for advocates to roadmap a plan of action as powerful as the challenges ahead. During the last week of…
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