Our Partners

Those closest to the problem are closest to the solution. Working hand-in-hand with community organizers, activists, and advocates, RFK Human Rights brings visibility to grassroots initiatives, providing resources and building public demand for reform where it’s needed most. We are privileged to partner with the bravest people on earth.

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)

    NACDL envisions a society where all individuals receive fair, rational, and humane treatment within the criminal legal system. NACDL’s mission is to serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal…

  • National Bail Fund Network

    Working in tandem with local organizers across the country to free people from pretrial detention.

  • National Immigrant Justice Center

    The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC) mission is to establish and defend the legal rights of immigrants, regardless of background, and to transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all.

  • National Immigration Project (NIP)

    The National Immigration Project is a membership organization of attorneys, advocates, and community members who are driven by the belief that all people should be treated with dignity, live freely, and flourish. We litigate, advocate, educate, and build bridges across movements to ensure that those who are impacted by our immigration and criminal legal systems…

  • Nationalities Service Center

    We champion immigrants, with urgency today—and for generations to come. For over a century, NSC has empowered immigrants and refugees to thrive in our communities and pursue a just future. We provide comprehensive services and supports including legal protections and remedies, health and wellness, education, and employment services and language access. 

  • Net Impact

    Partnered with RFK Human Rights on a series of workshops focused on mobilizing college students to become “election advocates” through actions that promoted voting by mail.

  • New York Civil Liberties Union

    The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) advances civil rights and civil liberties so that all New Yorkers can live with dignity, liberty, justice, and equality.

  • NYU Stern

    The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights serves as a partner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, together sponsoring and leading discussions and workshops convening business thought leaders from around the world to focus on companies addressing human rights challenges in business operations.

  • Odhikar

    Odhikar strives to spread awareness for and monitor the abuse of civil and political rights, for which it has trained more than 500 human rights defenders worldwide. The organisation has contributed to the enforcement of transparency and accountability in the government and has allowed for the active participation of people from all sectors of society.

  • Office of the Human Rights Ombudsperson of Guatemala

    We teamed up to file a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to seek precautionary measures to protect Guatemalan mining activist Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta.

  • One Fair Wage

    As members of the nationwide One Fair Wage Coalition working nationwide to end subminimum wages, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights takes part in policy advocacy, voter engagement, worker and employer organizing, and culture shift activities to ultimately lift millions of tipped workers out of poverty nationwide and engage them in the political process.

  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm focused on delivering innovative solutions for four sectors: Technology & Innovation, Energy & Infrastructure, Finance and Life Sciences & health tech.

New year, new us. Same mission.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

While our name is changing, our mission and work remain the same. We will continue to fight injustice, advance human rights, and hold governments accountable around the world in 2026 and beyond.