Racial Discrimination
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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 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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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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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests A public records lawsuit brought by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives revealed that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies to surveil protestors in 2020 and 2021. We obtained…
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“What Gets Measured Gets Managed”: Investing in Equity & Navigating DEIA Realities
Tags Share Just a few years after the murder of George Floyd and a surge of corporate commitments to promoting equity, business leaders and politicians have slashed DEI roles in their companies, introduced anti-ESG and anti-DEI bills in local and state legislatures. This has been coupled with efforts to overturn affirmative action in universities and…
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Behind The Headlines: Turmoil In Texas As Ugly State Vs Federal Government Battle Over Who Controls Immigration Law
Tags Share This week, federal courts extended a pause on enforcement of S.B. 4, a Texas law that allows state police to arrest people they suspect crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without valid immigration status. S.B. 4 requires state judges to order people to leave the U.S. or face up to 20 years in prison if…
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ACLU of Louisiana, RFK Human Rights, and Linklaters File Equal Protection Lawsuit Against St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office
Tags Share CONTACTSLauren Gaines, ACLU of Louisiana, media@laaclu.org Molly Ferrer, Linklaters LLP, molly.ferrer@linklaters.com Emma Gillett, RFK Human Rights, gillett@rfkhumanrights.org NEW ORLEANS—The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Linklaters LLP have filed a second lawsuit against four deputies with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office (STPSO), as well as several…
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Human Rights Defender Spotlight: Darrick Hamilton and Dr. Helen Bond
Tags Share Darrick Hamilton: Economic Rights What are Economic Rights? Economic rights are human rights that relate to the workplace, social security and access to housing, food, water, healthcare and education. They include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to adequate protection in the event of unemployment, sickness or old age;…
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Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, notorious detention facility in Louisiana, to close by the end of the year
Share After years of advocacy, reporting, and legal action by RFK Human Rights, grassroots organizations, and detained individuals, Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, a for-profit immigrant detention center run by the GEO Group, is expected to end its operations by the end of the year. Pine Prairie has long been plagued by egregious human rights…
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Speech at Idaho State University
We must realize that the system from which we have sent a disproportionate number of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Indians to fight in Vietnam is a faulty one.
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Remarks to medical students on federally subsidized healthcare
The students fired off questions challenging Kennedy on medical care for the poor, which they characterized as too expensive, unnecessary, or best left to the marketplace. Ultimately a student asked, “Where are you going to get all the money for these federally subsidized programs you’re talking about?”
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Nations, like man, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated nor transplanted to others. What is important is that all nations must march toward increasing freedom; towards justice for all; toward a society strong and flexible enough to meet the demands of…
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