The $5 million effort will bring critical attention to the immigration crisis beyond the atrocities at the southern border, including the destructive immigration raids and arrests occurring throughout the country.
Tags Share During a delegation trip to Mexico, representatives from RFK Human Rights and Al Otro Lado visited Friendship Park, the only federally designated binational meeting place where families separated by the U.S.-Mexico border can come together. It’s estimated that between 2011 and 2013, roughly half a million children who are U.S. citizens experienced the…
Tags Share Washington, D.C., October 21, 2019 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is gravely concerned following the Bahamian government’s treatment of migrants, predominantly from Haiti, in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, and its intent to deport migrants who sought refuge in shelters after the hurricane. Discriminatory policies against Haitians and Bahamians of Haitian descent…
The crisis at the border is what drives our 2019 Human Rights Award laureates to action, connecting people with legal counsel, monitoring detention centers for abuse, and reconnecting separated families.
Tags Share To cheers of “Sí, Se Puede,” (“Yes, we can”) three organizations that work closely with immigrant families at the nation’s southern border were honored Thursday with the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. The three recipients are South Texas groups: the Angry Tías and Abuelas of the Río Grande Valley; the Detained…
RFK Human Rights is honored to recognize Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley, Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee, and La Unión del Pueblo Entero for their tireless work.
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy’s 90-year-old widow Ethel Kennedy has joined a hunger strike to protest the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies and the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The collective fast, organized by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and several other activist groups, started on Saturday and will last for 24…
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our coalition of partners have launched a 24-day hunger strike aimed at pressuring the Trump administration to end its “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The protest began Saturday in front of a symbolic loaf of bread a few blocks from the federal courthouse in McAllen, Texas, the busiest…
RFK Human Rights and our partners have organized a 24-hour hunger strike and prayer chain in honor of the more than 2,400 children separated from their parents.
Tags Share In January, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy published “For immigrants trapped in The Bahamas, a paradise lost” in the Huffington Post after spending two days interviewing victims and human rights defenders in Nassau. She shed light on the inhumane conditions 700+ detainees experienced at Carmichael immigrant detention center, the country’s…
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