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.

  • Speak Truth to Power Switzerland

    Developed in close cooperation with the Competence Center for Human Rights at the University of Zurich, the curriculum was developed specifically for use in Switzerland. In addition to an introductory history of human rights, the book contains a total of 30 activists, 10 of whom are human rights defenders from Switzerland.

  • Speak Truth to Power UK

    Working with educationalists, child psychologists, artists, and human rights activists, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK has created a flexible program that can be deeply embedded in the work of schools. The curriculum has been carefully designed to offer pupils a profound and personal experience with a lasting impact.

  • Texas A & M School of Law Civil Rights Clinic and Immigrant Rights Clinic

    Texas A&M Legal Clinics give ​you the opportunity to put the lessons and skills you learn in class to work on behalf of actual clients.

  • The #HALTsolitary Campaign

    The New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (NYCAIC), the coalition behind the #HALTsolitary Campaign, works to end solitary confinement for all people, promote alternatives proven to better protect people’s health and safety, and build on these changes to dismantle the racial injustices and punishment paradigm that underpin the entire incarceration system.

  • The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

    The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) organizes immigrants and their families to fight harmful policies and demand equity and justice from our government.

  • The International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights

    We partnered to continue seeking justice for Mrs. Ernestina’s family, and advancing the rights of Indigenous women in Mexico.

  • The Juror Project

    We aim to change the makeup of juries to better represent the American population and the communities most commonly accused. We pursue this through community and public education about jury eligibility and the jury selection process and the power jurors hold in America’s high stakes criminal justice system.

  • The Unlock the Box Campaign

    Unlock the Box is a national advocacy campaign aimed at ending solitary confinement in all U.S. prisons, jails, detention facilities, and juvenile facilities, and bringing the United States into full compliance with the UN’s Mandela Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners within 10 years.

  • Trans United

    Partnered with RFK Human Rights on our “Street Rights” series in the summer of 2020.

  • Transgender Law Center

    Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.

  • Tribeca Film Institute

    Partners to promote film as a tool for human rights activism through the Speak Truth to Power Video Contest. The grand prize-winning film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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.