Event Recap
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Supporting Community During Trump 2.0: Advocacy and Emergency Litigation on Behalf of Community Members Who are Subject to Check-Ins with ICE
Interested in advocacy and emergency litigation? Subscribe to the Justice Roundup newsletter to get more of the latest on human rights advocacy and litigation, delivered straight to your inbox. Tags Share On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Justice for Migrant Families and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York hosted a webinar…
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Human Rights Education Speaker Series: A Conversation with Arely Westley
Tags Share A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities, Arely Westley works with numerous organizations in New Orleans to uplift LGBTQ+ youth, to stop abuses in ICE detention facilities, and to expand access to immigrant support services. Westley was recognized as this year’s RFK Human Rights Award laureate for her tireless efforts to…
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Defending Human Rights During Trump 2.0: Stopping Deportation Through Emergency Federal Court Litigation Alongside Community Organizing
Interested in litigation and community organizing? Subscribe to the Justice Roundup newsletter to get more of the latest on human rights advocacy and litigation, delivered straight to your inbox. Tags Share On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition hosted a webinar…
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RFKHR Book Club Relives the Decade That Changed Everything with ‘The Movement’: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America
Tags Share On November 14th, RFKHR hosted our most recent book club featuring Clara Bingham, author of The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement takes the audience through a decade of public and private protest, organizing and agitating that expanded the potential…
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RFKHR Book Club Explores The Untold Story of the Ku Klux Klan and the Brave Woman Who Challenged Them
Tags Share On August 27, our latest Book Club conversation featured this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Award’s Honorable Mention, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. A Fever in the Heartland is a historical thriller by…
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Blair LM Kelley traces the history of the Black working class
Tags Share On Tuesday, July 23rd, RFK Human Rights hosted its July Book Club featuring the recipient of the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley and moderated by historian and author Ted Widmer. This work spans two hundred years―from one…
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A Community For Change: The 2024 John Lewis Young Leaders Retreat
Tags Share “The purpose of the John Lewis Young Leaders (JLYL) fellowship program is not just to empower youth, but also to allow youth to get their foot in the door in terms of understanding what human rights work entails,” explained Jonathan Lam, part of the 2024-2025 cohort of JLYL fellows. For these young leaders,…
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Protecting Women Journalists in Africa: Expert Discussion on Research and Solutions
Tags Share On June 5th, as part of their ongoing work focusing on civic space and their UNESCO-funded “Protecting Women Journalists in Africa through Research and Strategic Litigation Project”, RFK Human Rights partnered with the African Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) to bring together experts on gender-based violence against women journalists in East and West…
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“What Gets Measured Gets Managed”: Investing in Equity & Navigating DEIA Realities
Tags Share Just a few years after the murder of George Floyd and a surge of corporate commitments to promoting equity, business leaders and politicians have slashed DEI roles in their companies, introduced anti-ESG and anti-DEI bills in local and state legislatures. This has been coupled with efforts to overturn affirmative action in universities and…
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Defenders in the Climate Emergency: The Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Tags Share On April 26th, RFKHR partnered with the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Fundeps to hold a virtual side event at the Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement. The event, titled “Defenders in the Climate Emergency: The Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,”…
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Author and journalist Jonathan Karl on civic space protection, the free press, and Donald Trump
Tags Share “Retribution” has been Donald Trump’s rallying cry throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. According to author and political journalist Jonathan Karl, that rhetoric is disturbingly similar to past regimes. “The dictatorial assaults on human rights that we’ve seen throughout history and around the world are often rooted in the very language we hear from…
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The Business of Human Rights and Protections Abroad
Tags Share “We need to protect the journalists,” pleaded Mikhail Gershkovich, father of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who was arrested by Russia’s Federal Security Service on March 30, 2023, while on assignment. While his detention has been condemned by news organizations, human rights groups, and the Biden administration, Gershkovich has yet to…
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