Gov’t Corruption
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
La Jornada Veracruz: Today, historic hearing at the IACHR for the murder of Ernestina Ascencio
Tags Share La Jornada Veracruz has reported that on January 30, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a critical public hearing against the Mexican State in the case of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, a Nahua woman who suffered sexual violence and torture at the hands of the Mexican Army before her death in…
-
Ka Hsaw Wa
I’ve been doing this for eleven years. Most of the time I coordinate fieldwork, collect information, conduct fact-finding missions, and train my staff to do the same, specifically in the pipeline area of the U.S. oil company Unocal. We currently have a lawsuit pending against Unocal. The crux of the case is that a U.S.…
-
Venezuela: La ONU debe renovar el mandato de expertos independientes
Tags Share Urge una rendición de cuentas internacional en medio de la intensificación de la represión postelectoral El Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas debe renovar el mandato de la Misión Internacional Independiente de Determinación de los Hechos sobre Venezuela, afirmaron hoy 30 organizaciones nacionales e internacionales que defienden los derechos humanos en…
-
Venezuela: UN Rights Council should renew experts’mandate
Tags Share International Accountability Urgently Needed Amid Intensifying Post-Election Repression The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, 30 national and international organizations defending human rights in Venezuela said today. The Mission can play a key role in pushing for accountability and maintaining international scrutiny…
-
Protests Around the World Stifled by State Authorities
Tags Share In the past few months, RFK Human Rights has closely monitored protests in several countries around the world, all of which have been violently repressed by state authorities. In Uganda, the protests were sparked by allegations of corruption against government officials, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The demonstrations in Kenya…
-
Uganda: Government must desist from attacks and arbitrary detention of #March2Parliament Protesters
Tags Share RFK Human Rights condemns the wanton attacks by Ugandan security forces against #March2Parliament protesters on 23 July resulting in dozens of arbitrary arrests and police brutality. We call upon the Ugandan government to immediately investigate the human rights violations and desist from interfering with the right of Ugandans to peaceful assembly. The #March2Parliament…
-
Guatemala: Organizaciones internacionales rechazamos enérgicamente la segunda condena impuesta contra la exfiscal Virginia Laparra
Tags Share Washington DC, Estados Unidos; San José, Costa Rica; Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 8 de julio de 2024 Las organizaciones firmantes rechazamos la reciente condena dictada en contra de la exfiscal Virginia Laparra por revelación de información, y consideramos que esta decisión judicial no se ajusta a la realidad de los hechos ni refleja…
-
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…
-
Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
It is necessary to mistrust personal power enough to provide for some restraints upon its use. This is the idea of political competition that underlies everything else in the American political system and the Constitution. Do not deprive a man of his capacity to act. Just be sure that he in turn is willing to…
Share