Gender-Based Violence
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Merits Brief Submitted in Ciudad Juárez Femicides Case
Tags Share Working in partnership with CEDIMAC – an organization dedicated to supporting victims of gender-based violence and their families in Ciudad Juarez- we represent six women murdered and one child disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, and their families, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a case titled Silvia Elena Rivera Morales y…
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Strengthening Our Commitment to a World Free From Violence Against Women
Tags Share July 7, 1995, was the last day Ramona saw her teenage daughter, Silvia. Two months later, Silvia’s body was found on a ranch outside of Ciudad Juarez, México, a city notorious for epidemic rates of femicide, or the killing of women due to their gender. 22 years later, no one has been convicted…
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IACHR Grants Admissibility in Mexican Femicide Case
Tags Share On October 6, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights was notified by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of its decision to grant admissibility to six cases of femicide—the murder of women because of their gender—committed in Ciudad Juarez. The IACHR’s admissibility declaration is a critical step in the long fight for justice…
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Dispatch from Mexico
Tags Share BETWEEN OCTOBER 6TH AND 11TH, A DELEGATION FROM ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS VISITED THREE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF MEXICO TO BRING ATTENTION TO PERSISTENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. In Ciudad Juárez (state of Chihuahua), the delegation witnessed the impact of widespread violence against women, normalized by impunity. In particular, disappearances of women and high…
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Activist Miriam Rodríguez Murdered in Mexico
Tags Share On the night of May 10, which was Mother’s Day in Mexico, Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez, a human rights defender and the mother of a disappeared daughter, was shot to death in the state of Tamaulipas. The undersigned organizations express our profound concern about Miriam’s murder and urge Mexican authorities to take immediate…
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RFK Human Rights, Red Lésbica Cattrachas File Arguments in Transfemicide Case
Tags Share Today, on the 2017 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Red Lésbica Cattrachas have filed their arguments on the merits before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights in a transfemicide case against Honduras for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute the execution of Vicky Hernández,…
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RFK Human Rights, CEDIMAC Petition IACHR on Ciudad Juárez Disappearances
The petition filed on behalf of seven women disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2011 denounces Mexico for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute these violent femicides.
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Police Inaction in Juárez Disappearances
Seven Mexican women disappeared over five months. The police did little—and may be complicit in human trafficking.
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RFK Human Rights Wins Landmark Case for Victims of Femicide in Guatemala
In a landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held the government of Guatemala responsible for the disappearance and murder of 19-year-old Claudina Isabel Velásquez Paiz.
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Rights for Dominican Women Regress to the 19th Century
Tags Share In a recent decision, the Dominican Republic’s highest court struck down protections that allowed women to have an abortion in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed, or where continuing the pregnancy places the woman’s life in danger. The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision reinstates a total ban…
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Premature Celebration for Gambia’s FGM Ban
Tags Share The Gambia was thrust into the spotlight this week after the country’s longtime president, Yahya Jammeh, announced a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). This pronouncement surprised many, especially after the country’s National Assembly rejected a similar proposal in March of this year, claiming that Gambians “were not ready.” Activists who work closely…
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New Amicus Brief Defends Access to Abortions in Dominican Republic
Tags Share (May 8, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed an amicus curiae brief this week before the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic urging the Tribunal to uphold the constitutionality of a recent amendment to the Penal Code that decriminalized access to abortion when the woman’s life is at risk…
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