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.

  • Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York

    PLSNY’s mission is to provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, help them to secure their civil and human rights, and advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system.

  • Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York

    Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York (PLS) is a nonprofit, legal services organization with offices in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, and Newburgh. PLS provides free, civil legal services to indigent prisoners in New York State correctional facilities.

  • Project South

    Project South’s work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, and our mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated social, economic, and political problems we face today.

  • Public Citizen

    Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power, and fight to ensure that government works for the people – not big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 500,000 members and supporters throughout the country.

  • Red de Encuentro Dominicano-Haitiano Jacques Viau (REDH-JV)

    Together with REDH-JV, we work to protect Dominicans of Haitian descent—often the target of xenophobia and racism—in cases like Juliana Deguis Pierre, et al. vs. Dominican Republic.

  • Red Lésbica Cattrachas

    We partnered to combat gender-based violence and to advance LGBTQ+ rights in Honduras. Our work together includes the 2015 case Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras and, more recently, Vicky Hernandez et al. v. Honduras.

  • RFK Compass Investors

    RFK Human Rights was created by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization founded in 1968 to advance Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of a more just and peaceful world. Fostering a social-good approach to business, RFK Compass Investors works with a network of institutional investors, fund managers, and investment consultants who represent…

  • Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network

    The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) provides free immigration legal and social services to immigrant children and to adults in immigration detention.

  • Roxanna Altholz, Human Rights Clinic at University of California Berkeley School of Law

    Roxanna Altholz is an international human rights lawyer and scholar with extensive experience in international and national fora.

  • Sanctuary New Orleans Abolition Project

    SNAP is a transgender-led advocacy project to prevent the systemic abuse of LGBTQI+ systems-impacted people in greater New Orleans.

  • Schools That Can

    Schools That Can builds an education-to-employment pathway that closes the opportunity and skills gap.

  • Seattle University School of Law

    Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.