Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment
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Cornell Law School: Immigration Clinic Visits Batavia Detention Center
Tags Share In March 2024, Cornell Law students and faculty from the 1L Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic visited the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, NY, to provide legal assistance to detained immigrants. Partnering with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the NYCLU, and Prisoners’ Legal Services of NY, the team met with detainees to
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Solitary Confinement: VP Anthony Enriquez on Alarming Trends, Misconceptions, and Why the Practice Should be Banned
Tags Share In a brief video, Anthony Enriquez, Vice President of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation, urges an end to solitary confinement in United States prisons and detention centers. The United States locks up over 122,000 people in solitary on any given day, at odds with international legal guidance like the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules
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Bangladesh: Urgent Call to Safeguard Human Rights and Democracy Ahead of January Elections
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express our deep concern about Bangladesh’s current human rights situation and closure of civic space as the country heads toward national elections on 7 January 2024. Since late October 2023, following the rallies and demonstrations co-organized by the political opposition, the ruling party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Awami
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K.N.N. et al v. United States of America: Stopping torture on deportation flights
This case challenges the abusive use of a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights.
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US violates human rights of Black immigrants: shadow report to UN Human Rights Committee for the fifth periodic review of the US under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Receiving Body United Nations Human Rights Committee Report Type Shadow report for the fifth periodic review of the United States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Tags Partners
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BANGLADESH: Government must cease enforced disappearances, stop harassment of the victims’ families and hold perpetrators accountable
Tags Share Bangkok/ Dhaka/ Geneva/ Hong Kong/Kuala Lumpur/ Manila/ Melbourne/ Paris/ Washington, D.C.; 29 August 2023: We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely concerned over the continued commission of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh and the denial of access to justice for the victims. The acts of enforced disappearance occur with impunity in Bangladesh and have become
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Justice for Migrant Families v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Exposing abuse at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility
This case under the Freedom of Information Act seeks to expose ongoing denial of medical treatment and abuse by guards at a New York immigration detention center.
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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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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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Somali Journalists Syndicate and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights demand immediate release of Somali journalist Busharo Ali Mohamed
Tags Share Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) condemn the arbitrary arrest and detention of Somali freelance journalist Busharo Ali Mohammed (widely known as Bushaaro Baanday) and call for her immediate and unconditional release by Somaliland authorities. Her ongoing detention is the latest in a series of unlawful
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Implicated in Payá’s death, Cuba should be ousted from U.N. Human Rights Council
Tags Share By Angelita Baeyens Tags Share The Cuban regime finally is being held responsible for the murder of Oswaldo Payá, one of the country’s most prominent political dissidents and pro-democracy activists. This long-awaited development comes more than a decade after Payá and fellow activist Harold Cepero were killed in a car crash. Payá’s family
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