Racial Discrimination
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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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Human rights attorneys urge UN to review the solitary confinement of Black Americans
Tags Share “The United States also has a very long and unfortunately active history of weaponizing solitary confinement against Black people, Black political prisoners and people exercising their constitutional rights.” Speaking with The Hill, our staff attorney Delia Addo-Yobo urges the United Nations to review abusive solitary confinement practices against Black people in the United…
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Union Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement
Tags Share On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. stayed at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. While standing on the balcony, King was shot by James Earl Ray and was pronounced dead that night. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death rang across the county as we had lost one of the most outstanding civil…
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Ending the Torture of Solitary Confinement of Afro-Descendent People
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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