LGBTQ+ Rights
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Joint Submission of Coalition of Immigrant Rights Organizations to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of the United States
Receiving Body United Nations, Human Rights Council Report Type Submission for the Universal Periodic Review Tags Submission Partners
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Latest Hearing: Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras
Interested in international advocacy and litigation? Subscribe to the Justice Roundup newsletter to get more of the latest on international human rights, delivered straight to your inbox. Tags Share On March 25, RFK Human Rights’ International advocacy and litigation team joined partners from the Red Lésbica Cattrachas as co-counsel in the latest hearing before the…
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Documented: A Queer Asylum Seeker’s Detention Nightmare
Tags Share After fleeing persecution in Guyana, a queer immigrant named A.B. was subjected to new trauma – detention in New York’s largest ICE facility, where LGBTQ+ identity is treated as a security risk. Speaking with Documented, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez comments on the long record of abuse at the…
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Human rights organizations urge United Nations to denounce abuse of LGBTQ+ people in immigration detention facilities
Tags Share Washington, D.C., February 18, 2025 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Black Diaspora Liberty Initiative, Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, Immigration Equality, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network, Sanctuary New Orleans Abolition Project, and the Transgender Law Center filed a joint submission urging the United Nations to denounce widespread abuse of LGBTQ+ people…
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Ending Abuse of Forcibly Displaced LGBTQ+ People in Immigration Detention
Inside for-profit immigration detention centers, the U.S. government wields solitary confinement, sexual abuse and harassment, and denial of medical care against forcibly displaced LGBTQ+ people—sometimes with deadly consequences.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share ICE Wants to Know if You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online Amid anger and protest over the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate “negative” social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents reviewed by…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Reverses Biden Directive on Policing Reforms Hours into his return to the Oval Office, President Trump revoked an executive order that aimed to “advance effective, accountable policing and criminal justice practices to enhance public trust and public safety.” But Trump did not just revoke many of his predecessor’s reforms — he also in the process reversed…
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Human Rights Education Speaker Series: A Conversation with Arely Westley
Tags Share A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities, Arely Westley works with numerous organizations in New Orleans to uplift LGBTQ+ youth, to stop abuses in ICE detention facilities, and to expand access to immigrant support services. Westley was recognized as this year’s RFK Human Rights Award laureate for her tireless efforts to…
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Human Rights Education Speaker Series: A Conversation with Arely Westley
Share A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities, Arely Westley works with numerous organizations in New Orleans to uplift LGBTQ+ youth, to stop abuses in ICE detention facilities, and to expand access to immigrant support services. Westley was recognized as this year’s RFK Human Rights Award laureate for her tireless efforts to combat…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share The Essential Role of ‘Civic Space’ in Safeguarding Electoral Integrity: How a Decision in Africa Can Reverberate In a recent decision on Ethiopia’s 2015 elections, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), a body of the African Union, emphasized the crucial connection between civic space and the right to vote. It was a…
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The Leonela case is an opportunity to eliminate discrimination against LGBTTI people in Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa / Washington DC., August 2, 2024] On July 26, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights referred the case of Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IA Court). This case concerns the transfemicide of Leonela in Honduras and is being represented Red Lésbica Cattrachas and Robert F. Kennedy…
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Caso Leonela es una oportunidad para eliminar discriminación contra las personas LGBTTI en Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa / Washington DC., 2 de agosto de 2024] El pasado 26 de julio, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sometió el caso de Leonela Zelaya contra Honduras a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH). Este caso se refiere al transfemicidio de Leonela en Honduras y está siendo representado por…
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