Journalists at Risk
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Protecting Women Journalists in Africa: Expert Discussion on Research and Solutions
Tags Share On June 5th, as part of their ongoing work focusing on civic space and their UNESCO-funded “Protecting Women Journalists in Africa through Research and Strategic Litigation Project”, RFK Human Rights partnered with the African Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) to bring together experts on gender-based violence against women journalists in East and West…
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RFK Human Rights celebra la resolución sobre libertad condicional del periodista guatemalteco José Rubén Zamora y su reconocimiento con el Premio Gabo
Tags Share Washington, DC. 15 de mayo de 2024. RFK Human Rights celebra la resolución emitida por el Tribunal Noveno de Sentencia Penal en Guatemala a favor del destacado periodista guatemalteco José Rubén Zamora, ordenando su libertad condicional. Esta resolución representa un paso significativo hacia el respeto y la protección de la libertad de expresión…
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RFK Human Rights celebrates Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora’s parole decision and his recognition with the Gabo Award
Tags Share Washington, DC. May 15, 2024. RFK Human Rights celebrates the resolution issued by the Ninth Criminal Sentencing Court in Guatemala in favor of prominent Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, ordering his conditional release. This resolution represents a significant step towards the respect and protection of freedom of expression in Guatemala. We hope that…
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Alexey Navalny Wrote Letters to Kerry Kennedy
Tags Share “He was the Mandela of Russia. He carried forth the vision of accountability…and free expression.” Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, our president Kerry Kennedy reflects on the life and legacy of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Noting Mr. Navalny’s leadership in bolstering civic space, Kerry urges the U.S. – and the world –…
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Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words
Tags Share In the final months of his life, Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny found solace in the words of Robert F. Kennedy and the reminder that a “ripple of hope” can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Read more about Mr. Navalny’s legacy as a human rights leader, and his correspondence…
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Five things to know about the Guillermo Cano case
Tags Share On February 9, the Colombian government will finally acknowledge its responsibility for the prevailing impunity in the 1986 murder of renowned newspaper editor Guillermo Cano, one of the reparation measures that has been called for by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Below are five things to know about this key case. 1.…
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The Business of Human Rights and Protections Abroad
Tags Share “We need to protect the journalists,” pleaded Mikhail Gershkovich, father of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who was arrested by Russia’s Federal Security Service on March 30, 2023, while on assignment. While his detention has been condemned by news organizations, human rights groups, and the Biden administration, Gershkovich has yet to…
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Speech at the Conference of UPI Editors and Publishers, Washington, D. C.
I have a deep awareness of the role that the press plays in our society. I firmly believe that freedom of information is one of the most important weapons we have in the great struggle for freedom now going on around the world.
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Address at the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland
Our newspapers must be free to report every facet of American life for this is not only a freedom guaranteed to them but a guarantee of freedom for all Americans.
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Freedom Neruda
Biography: Journalism has become one of the world’s most dangerous professions, with dozens of deaths and hundreds imprisoned because they exercised their freedom of speech. Freedom Neruda exemplifies the extraordinary courage of these engaged journalists who report the news despite severe restrictions by the state. Born Teiti Roch D’Assomption in the Ivory Coast in 1956,…
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NGOs call for protection of journalists and freedom of expression in Cambodia and Việt Nam ahead of UN human rights review
Tags Share Journalists working in Cambodia and Việt Nam are routinely threatened, subject to mistreatment, and detained for their reporting and commentary, with many imprisoned and denied basic rights, according to two new reports on press freedom and freedom of expression submitted to the United Nations. A report on Việt Nam was jointly submitted by…
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Việt Nam: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review on Human Rights Abuses
Tags Share Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Việt Nam that is taking place in Geneva next year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Freedom House, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), submitted a joint report, with the support of Covington & Burling LLP. The report provides a…
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