Immigration
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Immigrants’ rights organizations file FOIA lawsuit over illegal age determination procedures for unaccompanied immigrant children
Tags Share New York, NY, May 28, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the National Immigration Project, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana last week filed suit for records of a government investigation on coercion of unaccompanied immigrant children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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Quarterly Investor Risk Briefs for Private Prison Companies Geo Group and CoreCivic
Our quarterly investor risk briefs highlight timely risks for shareholders in GEO Group and CoreCivic.
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RFK Human Rights v. Department of Homeland Security: Exposing coercion of unaccompanied children
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose the U.S. government’s practice of depriving unaccompanied immigrant children of legal protections from deportation and imprisonment in adult detention centers by destroying their birth certificates, coercing false confessions of adulthood, and falsifying age records through racially biased, pseudo-scientific forensic tests.
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DHS Reverses Decision to Abolish Three Key Civil Rights Offices
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security today announced that it will not abolish the Department’s Offices for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, or the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, reversing a previous move to shutter the offices. In short notes at the top of each office’s…
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The Denver Post: Jeanette Vizguerra — held by ICE in Aurora — named a winner of Robert F. Kennedy human rights award
Tags Share The Denver Post reports that Jeanette Vizguerra, a longtime Colorado immigration advocate currently held in ICE detention, has been named one of three recipients of the 42nd annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Honored alongside Maine Gov. Janet Mills and former DOJ pardon attorney Elizabeth Oyer, Vizguerra was recognized for her grassroots…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Maine Gov. Janet Mills to Receive Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Maine Gov. Janet Mills will receive an award from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. RFK Human Rights announced Thursday that Mills is one of three recipients of its 42nd annual Human Rights Award. The other two are Elizabeth Oyer, a former…
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Westword: Immigrant Activist, Currently Detained in Aurora, Wins Human Rights Award
Tags Share RFK Human Rights recently named Denver immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra as one of the recipients of its 42nd annual Human Rights Award. Reporting on this news, Colorado publication Westword outlines Vizguerra’s long history of activism. Vizguerra joins fellow honorees Elizabeth Oyer, the former DOJ pardon attorney, and Janet Mills, the governor of Maine. …
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces Maine Governor Janet Mills, Elizabeth Oyer, and Jeanette Vizguerra as 2025 Human Rights Award Laureates
Tags Share Washington, D.C., May 15, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced Maine Governor Janet Mills, former DOJ Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer, and immigration reform activist Jeanette Vizguerra as the recipients of its 42nd annual Human Rights Award. A ceremony honoring Mills, Oyer, and Vizguerra will be held on June 5 in…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share U.S. Press Freedom Falls to Historical Low Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index published annually by Reporters Without Borders. Press freedom in the U.S. now falls in line with developing countries, such as Gambia, Uruguay and Sierra Leone. While physical threats against journalists…
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Una nueva demanda busca restablecer los derechos humanos de las personas desaparecidas en detención incomunicada indefinida en El Salvador
Tags Share Read the press release in English here. Cuatro organizaciones líderes en materia de derechos humanos —la Clínica Internacional de Derechos Humanos de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Boston, el Centro de Estudios de Género y Refugiados (CGRS), el Consejo de Litigios Estratégicos Globales (GSLC) y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights…
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New Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Human Rights for Those Disappeared to Indefinite Incommunicado Detention in El Salvador
Tags Share Lea el comunicado de prensa en español aquí. Four leading human rights organizations—the Boston University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic, the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), the Global Strategic Litigation Council (GSLC) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR)—have filed a lawsuit seeking an emergency ruling by the Inter-American…
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Gothamist: US judge releases Bronx man detained by ICE, citing due process violations
A federal judge, citing due process concerns, ordered the release of a Bronx man who was taken into custody during his annual U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in.
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