Immigration
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Advocates Demand Investigation into ICE’s Retaliation and Abuse Against Hunger Strikers at Buffalo Detention Center
Tags Share BUFFALO, NY, July 10, 2024 – Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Justice for Migrant Families filed a federal civil rights complaint on behalf of detained individuals at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility (BFDF), New York…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Three out five young activists face online harassment globally for posting human rights content Three out of five child and young human rights defenders face online harassment in connection with their activism, according to a new analysis of 400 responses to an Amnesty International questionnaire, distributed to young activists across 59 countries. More than…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Americas: On World Refugee Day, states must prioritize the human rights of those seeking protection in the Americas On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Amnesty International has issued an open letter to the States parties to the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, who are currently meeting in Bogotá, urging them to put human…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share This Pride, Embody the True Spirit of Queer Liberation As we enter another Pride Month overrun with corporate rainbows and empty overtures, it’s important to remember that Pride started as a protest — a riot, to be more specific. On a hot June day in 1969 when the New York Police Department raided the popular…
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Human rights groups oppose asylum processing rule that would further slow cases
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Cameroon Advocacy Network, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition, strongly opposes a proposed regulation that would disproportionately deny humanitarian protection to people in immigration detention and Black people. On June 12, 2024, the human rights organizations submitted a…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist…
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Statement on Increased Border Prosecutions
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is profoundly disappointed by the Biden administration’s plans to increase federal criminal prosecutions of migrants accused of nothing more than crossing a border. Decades of data on prosecutions for border crossing make it clear: mass incarceration does not deter people fleeing persecution. Already immigration-related prosecutions account for over one-fourth of the federal criminal…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Spying, Hacking and Intimidation: Israel’s Nine-Year ‘War’ on the ICC Exposed When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court…
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Governor Kathy Hochul Pardons Longtime New York Resident Paul Pierrilus, Human Rights Groups Urge the U.S. Government to Bring Paul Home
Tags Share New York, NY, May 30, 2024 – Last week, on May 24, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul of the State of New York granted Paul Pierrilus, a 35-year resident of Spring Valley, New York, a gubernatorial pardon. The pardon, requested by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance earlier this year,…
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RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist Vicky Hernández was murdered on the streets of San Pedro Sula in 2009. And…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Global: New technology and AI used at borders increases inequalities and undermines human rights of migrants In a new research briefing released today, Amnesty International documents extensively the ways in which technology contributes to the growing trend of human rights violations at borders and urges that states stop using such technologies until they…
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Dispatches from Detention: Detaining the Elderly and Infirm
Tags Share Dispatches from Detention shares stories of people encountered by RFK Human Rights attorneys in legal outreach trips to the country’s most isolated immigration detention centers. Names have been changed to protect privacy. Buffalo Service Processing Center, Batavia, New York March 2024 “I’m sick and I’m scared and I don’t know what to do…
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