Immigration
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J.K.A. v. United States of America: Stopping retaliation for protesting detention center abuses
This case seeks accountability for torture and other cruel and degrading treatment the government inflicted on individuals it held in immigration detention in Louisiana and during and after their deportation flights to Cameroon.
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RFK Human Rights celebrates one-year anniversary of Rapid Defense Network
Tags Share On July 19 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) celebrated the one-year anniversary of the integration of Rapid Defense Network (RDN) and its co-founder, Sarah Gillman, into the RFKHR family. Gillman now serves as RFKHR’s Director of Strategic U.S. Litigation. Her extensive experience in litigating for immigrants’ rights is a cornerstone of the…
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Louisiana ICE facility staff response to detainee’s seizure captured in audio recording
Tags Share Speaking with New Orleans Public Radio, staff attorney Sarah Decker details a recent instance of medical neglect at a Louisiana ICE detention center.
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California should honor Mandela by limiting solitary confinement
Tags Share By Chris Holden and Daniel Tse July 18 marks Nelson Mandela Day, an occasion to commemorate the life of the revered South African leader. Mandela was not only a champion of justice, and an advocate for equality and freedom, he was also an activist who survived incarceration and torture in his fight for…
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Detainees and advocates decry ‘horrific’ conditions at Louisiana ICE detention center
Tags Share Staff attorney Sarah Gillman speaks with NBC News about inhumane conditions and rampant human rights abuses at Winn Correctional Center, an ICE detention facility in rural Louisiana. “There’s been a lot of reports on Winn, and there’s been a lot of documentation, and even with all that it continues to exist,” she notes.…
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Cenesca v. Feeley: Fighting prolonged solitary confinement in immigration detention
This case challenges the U.S. government’s practice of coercing Black immigrants into accepting deportation by locking them in indefinite immigration detention and prolonged solitary confinement.
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RFKHR attorney, legal fellow meet with U.N. delegation on human rights violations of Black people, asylum seekers in U.S.
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights staff attorney Delia Addo-Yobo, legal fellow Daniel Tse, and John Lewis Young Leader Lucina Kayee were able to meet with a United Nations delegation in May to shine a light on human rights violations against Black people in the U.S. – both American citizens and migrants seeking asylum…
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Celebrating The Year One of Integrating RDN and RFKHR
Share Join us for a summer rooftop celebration of the integration of RDN and Sarah Gillman with RFK Human Rights. A seasoned attorney specializing in immigrants’ rights, Gillman’s work is expanding our U.S. advocacy and litigation efforts on key human rights issues, including reducing the size and scope of the mass incarceration system. You’ll hear…
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Hodge v. Brophy: Fighting indefinite civil detention
This case seeks to affirm immigrants’ rights to U.S. constitutional protections against unjustly prolonged civil detention.
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A Mother’s Love: The Resilience of an Immigrant
Tags Share My mom immigrated to the United States in 1997. She worked a series of jobs between the time she arrived and the day she had me six years later. At work, colleagues and customers disrespected her because of her thick accent and initially low capability to speak English. Little did people know that…
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US abuses human rights with solitary confinement: request for thematic hearing at the IACHR
In April 2023, RFK Human Rights and nine partners requested a thematic hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning the United States’ tortuous use of solitary confinement. The request exposes how the United States’ persistent use of solitary confinement violates international human rights law, threatening the rights to life, health and safety, liberty,…
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Immigrants’ Rights and Human Rights Organizations File Civil Rights Complaint Exposing Torture, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect of a Hunger Striker at a Louisiana ICE Detention Center
Tags Share Washington, D.C., March 30, 2023 – Yesterday, a group of legal and community organizations including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Freedom for Immigrants, ACLU-LA, Southern Poverty Law Center, Mujeres Luchadoras, Home is Here NOLA, and Louisiana AID filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties…
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