Racial Discrimination
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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 is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by evidence the organizations presented at the recent…
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share NEW YORK, AUGUST 30, 2022 – The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by…
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‘Our duty as human rights advocates is to make them understand’
Tags Share It was an opportunity to tell the true story of discrimination against Black immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers by the U.S government, a story that largely goes untold, and reframe it for the international community. The week of Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Vice President for Domestic Advocacy and Litigation Anthony…
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Human rights groups support United Nations in confronting U.S. government on racially discriminatory immigration policies
Tags Share GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 12, 2022 – Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights applaud the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for asking poignant and demanding questions to the U.S. government about its racially discriminatory immigration practices, particularly those…
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RFKHR at the United Nations: Why the U.S. doesn’t have reliable statistics to measure anti-Black discrimination in U.S. immigration
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights 2021 HRA Laureate Guerline Jozef, president of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, testified before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international treaties the U.S. has signed on to. The topic? The continual systemic mistreatment of Black migrants…
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Partner, HRA Laureate Jozef addresses U.N. about human rights abuses to Black migrants
Tags Share On Tuesday, Aug. 9, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Human Rights Award laureate Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, addressed the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, one of the few international human rights treaties the country has signed on to. A key partner, Jozef…
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We must restore the promise of freedom and justice for Black people in Memphis
Tags Share In Memphis, more children are prosecuted in adult court than in the rest of the state combined. Nearly all of them are Black. On the Fourth of July, our nation celebrates the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But for too many, that promise is not only broken, it is…
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