Racial Discrimination
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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 cruel and degrading treatment inflicted on Cameroonian men in immigration detention in Louisiana and on deportation flights.
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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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RFKHR Book Club Hosts Dr. Peniel Joseph, Author of “The Third Reconstruction”
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ virtual Book Club on July 18 focused on stories and storytelling – the stories that shape our understanding of the past and our hope for the future. “The most powerful aspect of any society is storytelling,” said Dr. Peniel Joseph, historian, professor, and the recipient of RFKHR’s 2023
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Cenesca v. Feeley: Fighting prolonged solitary confinement in immigration detention
Federal court finds due process violated by prolonged immigration detention with repeated solitary confinement.
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Mike Brown v. United States: Seeking justice for lethal police violence
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights grants first public hearing on extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown.
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Book Club: The Third Reconstruction by Dr. Peniel E. Joseph
Share Join us for the RFKHR Board and Leadership Council Book Club Conversation on July 18 from 2-3 pm ET / 11 am – 12 pm PT. We host these quarterly virtual gatherings to engage our members, amplify social justice activists, authors, and journalists, and provide a deep dive into our work. This month’s selection,
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Rekia Boyd v. United States: Fighting impunity for police killings
This case seeks accountability through international human rights law for the extrajudicial killing of Rekia Boyd by a Chicago police officer.
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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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The Month of May: Celebrating the Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
Tags Share A landmark Supreme Court decision handed down May 17, 1954, forever shifted education – and life – for Black Americans. While the discussion around school segregation began well before Brown v. Board of Topeka, the most integral legal changes occurred in the 1950s. The NAACP in 1938 took on the case of Lloyd
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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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‘They are aligned and joined forever’: A Harvard Club conversation on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and RFK
Tags Share Sit-ins at Woolworths in the south. The murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and others. How does the past inform the way we approach civil rights today? Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Dr. Russell Wigginton, president of the National Civil Rights Museum, took on these topics and more
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Human Rights Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Withdraw Proposed Regulations that Would Effectively Ban Black Asylum Seekers
Tags Share Washington, D.C., March 28, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the Black Immigrant Bail Fund, Cameroon Advocacy Network, and Haitian Bridge Alliance, strongly opposes a new regulatory framework that would all but ban asylum for Black asylum seekers. On March 27, 2023, the human rights organizations submitted a public comment to
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