Extrajudicial Killings
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Letter to the U.N. Secretary-General in Advance of His Visit to Bangladesh
Tags Share His Excellency António Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations Dear Secretary-General: As human rights organizations, we write to respectfully urge you to do everything in your power to provide U.N. support to Bangladesh during this critical period in the country’s political transition. Bangladesh is now undergoing unprecedented changes following widespread protests that led to…
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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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Human rights organizations urge United Nations to denounce abuse of LGBTQ+ people in immigration detention facilities
Tags Share Washington, D.C., February 18, 2025 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Black Diaspora Liberty Initiative, Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, Immigration Equality, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, Sanctuary New Orleans Abolition Project, and the Transgender Law Center filed a joint submission urging the United Nations to denounce widespread abuse of LGBTQ+ people…
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US abuses forcibly displaced LGBTQ+ people in immigration detention: report to UN Independent Expert on Protection against Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Inside for-profit immigration detention centers, the U.S. government wields solitary confinement, sexual abuse and harassment, and denial of medical care against forcibly displaced LGBTQ+ people—sometimes with deadly consequences.
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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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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 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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Ka Hsaw Wa
Ka Hsaw Wa is a Burmese human rights activist. He is Co-founder of EarthRights International, and a member of the Karen ethnic nationality from Myanmar (Burma). After being captured and tortured, he participated in the 1988 student uprising calling for human rights, democracy and an end to military rule. In the ensuing crackdown by the…
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Southern Border Communities Coalition Files Supreme Court Amicus in Barnes v. Felix to Urge End to Excessive Use of Force by Law Enforcement
Tags Share November 20, 2024 – Today, the Southern Border Communities Coalition took its fight for dignity and human rights to the U.S. Supreme Court by filing an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in a major police shooting case, Barnes v. Felix, to hold law enforcement including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), accountable…
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Barnes v. Felix: Limiting deadly police force
Our amicus brief asks the Supreme Court to recognize that U.S. law, like international human rights law, limits police use of lethal force to situations where it is both necessary and proportionate to a threat.
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