Racial Discrimination
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US tortures Black people with solitary confinement: report to UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement
The United States wields solitary confinement against Afro-descendent people in municipal jails, state and federal prisons, immigration detention centers, and care settings for foster youth, causing devastating mental, physical, and emotional harm.
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Once again we are asking for change. When will there be progress on police brutality?
Tags Share Our message is clear: It’s time to limit police contact with the public and decrease the opportunities law enforcement has to introduce violence to non-violent situations. This means limiting police power to stop people on mere pretext, repealing laws that criminalize people who speak out against police abuses, and investing directly into communities…
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5 Things to Know About the Brown v. Board of Education Case
Tags Share RFKHumanRights · #RFKHRVoiceArticles | 5 Things to Know About the Brown v. Board of Education Case In the fall of 1950, Oliver Brown, a Black church minister, tried to enroll his daughter Linda at Sumner Elementary School, a few blocks from their home in Topeka, Kansas. But she was denied enrollment because it…
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Police brutality
Tags Share Van Jones’ Interview with Kerry Kennedy The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy center for documenting and exposing human rights violations in the United States—particularly those perpetuated by law enforcement. A project of the Center, Bay Area Police Watch has a hotline that opened in 1995 here in the San…
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Apartheid and racial discrimination
Tags Share Excerpts from Nelson Mandela’s Presidential Inaugural Address, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Comrades and Friends: Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world, confer glory and hope to newborn liberty. Out of the experience of an extraordinary…
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Civil Society Organizations Condemn Collective Expulsions from the Dominican Republic And Call for Their Immediate End
Tags Share Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.December, 2022. We, the undersigned organizations, express extreme concern regarding the collective expulsion of people, including children, adolescents and pregnant women, to Haiti by the authorities of the Dominican Republic. This measure is part of a series of actions proposed by the President of the Dominican Republic to address migration…
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Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil Condenan Expulsiones Colectivas de República Dominicana y Llaman a su Cese Inmediato
Tags Share Santo Domingo, Washington D.C.Diciembre 2022 Las organizaciones firmantes expresamos extrema preocupación frente a la expulsión colectiva a Haití de personas, incluyendo niños, niñas y adolescentes y mujeres embarazadas, por parte de las autoridades de la República Dominicana. Dicha medida forma parte de una serie de acciones planteadas por el Presidente de la República…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ advocacy and litigation teams testify to plights of Black migrants in U.S., Brazil’s indigenous population
Tags Share The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearings laid bare the plights of Black migrants in the U.S. and Brazil’s Indigenous communities when the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ international and U.S. advocacy and litigation teams testified last week. During the hearings, Daniel Tse, joint legal fellow with RFKHR and the Haitian Bridge Alliance,…
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RFKHR Book Club spotlights Elizabeth Hinton’s ‘America on Fire’
Tags Share Yale professor of Law Elizabeth Hinton has advocated for structural transformation as a more effective solution to violent crimes and improving America’s race-relations. “More police and more prisons doesn’t work to keep people safer,” Hinton said on Friday Sept. 29 while discussing her book, America on Fire at a live virtual event organized…
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Black in Austria
Tags Share There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Everyone may spend varying times in these stages, but each stage is integral, with acceptance being arguably the most important. Except this isn’t about experiencing a close death; it’s about refinding my identity as a Black woman living in an inherently…
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Black Immigrant Organizations File FOIA Lawsuit Demanding Transparency on the Abuse of Haitians in Del Rio Last Year
Tags Share NEW YORK, NY, September 30, 2022 —Today, Black-led immigrant justice organizations Haitian Bridge Alliance, UndocuBlack Network, and African Communities Together filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking records from the U.S. government on the abuse of Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, TX last…
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Haitian Bridge Alliance v. DHS: Exposing anti-Black discrimination at the border
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks documents explaining why the US engaged military-grade force for the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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