Student filmmakers, do you have a story that speaks truth to power? @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social is accepting entries for its 2026 Speak Truth to Power Video Contest. This is your chance to be featured at the Tribeca Festival in New York City! Submit your entry by May 6, 2026: rfkhro.org/3DTak9N

(1/2) Did you know that between 2006 and 2025, over 1,800 journalists have been killed in direct connection to their work? Roughly 9 out of 10 cases, or 90%, remain in impunity to this day.

(2/2) This International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, we demand justice and accountability for all journalists who have been harassed, attacked, or killed simply for doing their jobs. #NotATarget

Spooky season is officially here! 🎃 👻 Happy Halloween from all of us at @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social.

The 2026 RFK Book and Journalism Awards are now open for submissions! Submitted works must have been published, aired, or broadcast between January 1 and December 31, 2025. The deadline for all entries is January 30, 2026. 🔗 Submit your entries today: rfkhro.org/3JUsOX5

(1/3) Deplorable. ICE is detaining pregnant people, even after they inform the officers of their pregnancy, in violation of agency guidance and federal regulations.

(1/3) It’s now 9 months since Nasrin Sotoudeh has been denied the basic right to visit her husband, Reza Khandan, in prison. The injustice continues: political prisoners in Evin have now rallied, signing a letter supporting Khandan’s protest over the visitation ban.

There is still time to register for our upcoming book club featuring @staceyabrams.com and her latest novel, Coded Justice! 🗓️ Wednesday, October 22 ⏲️ 3:00pm ET 🔗 Register: rfkhro.org/4gVmJJw

(1/2) Umu Thoronka’s courage is a powerful reminder that press freedom and women’s rights are inseparable. After enduring years of sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace, she was forced into exile. Yet, even from afar, she refuses to be silenced.

As we welcome the long-overdue ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the release of all hostages, and the resumption of aid to Gaza, we must also acknowledge that there's a long road ahead toward sustainable peace. That road must be built on justice, accountability, and respect for human rights.

Vote, vote, vote! @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social is a 2025 Anthem Awards finalist! Support our work ➡️ celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting...

Big news out of Maine today for our 2025 Human Rights Award laureate, Governor @janetmills4me.bsky.social! More information: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Happy #InternationalDayofTheGirl! The little girl in this photo is me. If I could tell my younger self one thing, I’d say: forgive. Forgive, and forgive again. And then, change the structure that allowed that injustice to occur. Always forgive the person. Always work to change the structure.

(3/3) Mrs. Kennedy continues to inspire us as we carry forward Sen. Kennedy’s & now, her legacy, for a more just and peaceful world. If you’d like to support our work, and honor Mrs. Kennedy’s legacy, please consider donating to the Ethel Kennedy Fund ⬇️.

(1/3) It is hard to believe it’s been a year since we lost Mum. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her. She had deep faith and a quiet strength that buoyed everyone around her, and she believed in people even when they didn’t believe in themselves.

(1/3) BREAKING: @nipnlg.bsky.social, ACLU of Louisiana, and RFK Human Rights filed a habeas petition in federal court seeking the release of 18-year-old Carlos Guerra Leon.

(2/3) Carlos, who just graduated from high school in Spring Valley, New York earlier this year, has approved Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) with Deferred Action. Despite this, in August, ICE unlawfully detained Carlos and sent him to a detention center in Louisiana.

(3/3) Our filings ask the court to order Carlos' immediate release from detention and reaffirm that the government’s actions violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution. More information ⬇️.

This is what dictatorship looks like. Stop scrolling, read this, and march! 🔗 More from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-2-...

(1/2) Violence has infiltrated every aspect of American life and has become dangerously normalized. It pits neighbor against neighbor, poisons our political discourse, fuels hate crimes in our communities, and tears families apart through cycles of fear and trauma.

We’ve lost one of the great human beings today. Let’s be inspired by her example, and protect our beautiful planet and all animals.

(1/2) Congratulations to our partner Efrén Olivares, VP of Litigation & Legal Strategy at @nilc.org, on being named to the 2025 @time.com 100 Next list! At @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social, we’re proud to stand with him in the fight for immigrant justice. Read my tribute to Efrén ⬇️.

Everyday people in U.S. immigration detention suffer inhumane treatment that violates the most basic human rights. ICE has become a rogue agency, rampant with physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and shielded by impunity. It's past time to hold our government accountable for these abuses.

As deportation terror mounts, Cardinal McElroy asks U.S. Catholics, ‘Who is your neighbor?’ - America Magazine

(1/5) At least four people held at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center say the former assistant warden subjected them to a forced labor scheme explicitly targeting transgender and LGBTQ+ people. The abuse included sexual assault and harassment, the denial of medical care, and retaliation.

(2/5) The abuse came to light through our ongoing visits to Louisiana detention centers. Evidence shows that ICE was aware of this abuse, but systematically ignored and buried complaints. These failures in oversight have only gotten worse under the Trump administration.

(3/5) For example, our clients were forced to push heavy cinder blocks and metal cabinets across a dorm, taking around 30 minutes, and then told to push the items back where they came from. The former assistant warden told them: “If you wanna be a man, I’ll treat you like a man.”

(4/5) People who spoke up faced retaliation and were thrown in solitary confinement. ICE dismissed these complaints as “another hoax about ICE facilities.”

(5/5) "There's a disturbing paper trail of ICE’s knowledge of what was happening in this facility,” said our U.S. Staff Attorney, Sarah Decker. “This is part of a system of neglect and abuse. This tells me that there's even more going on behind the scenes that we're not yet aware of."

(1/2) I’ve been working on human rights issues for 45 years, and all around the world, the first target of autocrats is always free speech. That’s what’s happening in our country right now, and it’s the most dangerous thing that can happen in a democracy.

(1/3) Yesterday, we heard a speech from the President of the United States that did not reflect the values of our country or of the United Nations. Instead of calling for peace, dignity, and cooperation, Pres. Trump delivered a speech laced with fear, division, and misinformation.

(1/3) I'm excited to announce that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of @colbertlateshow.bsky.social will be honored with the 2025 @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social Ripple of Hope Award at our annual gala on December 9!

(1/5) Eleven public servants were arrested in the halls of a federal building for standing up for human dignity. Inside 26 Federal Plaza, people are being held in conditions so degrading and inhumane that a federal judge ruled they likely violated the Constitution.

(1/2) Kimmel. Colbert. Lawsuits against the NYT, WSJ, 60 Minutes. Blocking AP's access to the White House. Handpicking reporters for the White House press pool. In every country where human rights are under assault, the first target is always the truth. And that starts with silencing the press.

(1/4) BREAKING: RFKHR, ACLU of Louisiana, and @nipnlg.bsky.social have filed federal complaints exposing widespread sexual abuse and an unsanctioned forced labor scheme targeting trans/GNC detained people at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

(2/4) The Assistant Warden forced one woman into near-daily sexual acts under threat, while transgender detained people were forced to perform dangerous manual labor, under threat, “If you think you are a man, I’m going to treat you like a man.”

(3/4) “I begged the US government to help me. I filed complaints. I told ICE officers and medical staff. But they did nothing. I want people to know what happened to me and what continues to happen to people detained at these facilities.” - Jane Doe.* Name changed for privacy.

(4/4) This is the reality inside rural ICE jails: systemic abuse, cover-ups, and profit at the expense of human dignity.

(1/5) 🧵 Sidestepping Congress and the Constitution. Normalizing mass surveillance and police militarization. Scapegoating people with the courage to speak out. Democracy in the US is facing generational challenges. Here’s how ➡️.

#Chicago is full of activists and organizers who love their hometown and make it the vibrant and beautiful city it is. If you'd like to support local organizations leading this work, follow @immigrantjustice.bsky.social and @icirr.bsky.social.

(1/4) The Trump administration joins the worst human rights violators on Earth. In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration is boycotting the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations this November.

(1/5) #Bangladesh: On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we honor the resilience of survivors like Mir Ahmad BinQuasem, known as Arman, and remember hundreds who remain missing.

Women journalists are increasingly facing disproportionate and specific threats in sub-Saharan Africa, exacerbated by developments in tech. @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social recent report looks at how strategic litigation could improve accountability and protection. 👇 rfkhumanrights.org/report/gbv-a...

(1/5) What’s happening at "Alligator Alcatraz," the "Speedway Slammer," "Angola" and other state-run ICE detention centers is not civil immigration enforcement. It is punishment without conviction.

(2/5) Civil detention is not supposed to feel like prison. Yet the Trump administration is turning some of the country’s most notorious and abusive prisons into immigration holding centers. Names like “Deportation Depot” and “Cornhusker Clink” say the quiet part out loud.

(1/3) The husband of my dear friend, renowned Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been unjustly imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison since December 13, 2024. Reza’s only “crime” is standing beside his wife and speaking out for women's rights in Iran.

The Workers Circle is proud to help organize these vigils. #justiceforall

(1/4) What’s happening at the ICE jail in the FL Everglades, the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz," is a moral outrage. The US govt is denying people food, hygiene, medical care, & even pressuring them to give up their legal rights in exchange for a blanket.

(1/6) Rats. People crowded in a room w/ no AC and outside temperatures nearing 90 degrees. A woman begging for four and a half months to see a doctor for suspected colon cancer. Another woman finally granted a doctor's visit, only to be sexually assaulted.