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.

  • 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.

  • Sexual Minorities Uganda

    We partnered to file a petition before the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans, who were ​​arrested and detained after authorities falsely claimed they were violating COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.

  • Somali Journalists Syndicate

    We filed a joint petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to secure Mohamed “Abuuja” Abdiwahab Nuur’s release after he was arbitrarily detained for months, enduring torture and being denied access to legal counsel and his family, for publishing an editorial criticizing Somali security forces.

  • Somali Media Association

    We filed a joint petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to secure Mohamed “Abuuja” Abdiwahab Nuur’s release after he was arbitrarily detained for months, enduring torture and being denied access to legal counsel and his family, for publishing an editorial criticizing Somali security forces.

  • Southern Border Communities Coalition

    Formed in March 2011, the Southern Border Communities Coalition brings together 60 organizations from San Diego, CA to Brownsville, TX.

  • Southern Poverty Law Center

    The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.