Quotes & Media Coverage
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Addressing the social and racial barriers to health care equity
Tags Share Fortune covers our president Kerry Kennedy’s recent participation at the 2023 Most Powerful Women Summit. Joined by industry experts from Johnson & Johnson and the Susan G. Komen foundation, Kerry and her co-panelists discussed the social and racial barriers to health care equity – and how to address them.
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Kerry Kennedy Named 2023 Freedom Award Recipient
Tags Share Memphis Magazine features our president Kerry Kennedy as one of the 2023 Freedom Award recipients from the National Civil Rights Museum.
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Imprisonment of Top Rights Activists in Bangladesh Triggers Global Outrage
Tags Share “They are two of the most widely respected human rights advocates worldwide. They are being punished for speaking truth to power.” Our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens comments on the recent sentencing of two prominent human rights activists in Bangladesh, both of whom exposed serious human rights violations by government…
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Families of Mike Brown, Rekia Boyd Reach Global Stage of Yearslong Human Rights Battle
Tags Share Earlier this summer, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights worked with the families of Mike Brown and Rekia Boyd to file a merit brief with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The brief is the latest effort for accountability and justice for the Brown and Boyd families following their loved ones’ deaths at the…
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Louisiana ICE facility staff response to detainee’s seizure captured in audio recording
Tags Share Speaking with New Orleans Public Radio, staff attorney Sarah Decker details a recent instance of medical neglect at a Louisiana ICE detention center.
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Detainees and advocates decry ‘horrific’ conditions at Louisiana ICE detention center
Tags Share Staff attorney Sarah Gillman speaks with NBC News about inhumane conditions and rampant human rights abuses at Winn Correctional Center, an ICE detention facility in rural Louisiana. “There’s been a lot of reports on Winn, and there’s been a lot of documentation, and even with all that it continues to exist,” she notes.…
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UN expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation
Tags Share The Associated Press notes Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ advocacy on behalf of Theary Seng, a Cambodian-American human rights activist who was arbitrarily detained in violation of international law.
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Union wins at New York farms raise hopes for once-powerful UFW
Tags Share Speaking with The Guardian, our president Kerry Kennedy celebrates a milestone moment for the United Farm Workers. In the UFW’s biggest organizing success in years, it recently unionized 500 workers at five New York farms. Recalling RFK Human Rights’ early involvement with the United Farm Workers, Kerry notes the historically bleak conditions for…
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‘The Cuban regime killed my father’ – dissident’s daughter
Tags Share Angelita Baeyens, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation, speaks with the BBC about the Cuban government’s culpability in the death of pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá. “They wanted to silence him [Payá] but they could not kill him in a way which would make it too obvious that the state was behind it.”
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UN Peacekeeping Chief Urged to Raise Rights Concerns in Bangladesh Visit
Tags Share Speaking with Voice of America, Angelita Baeyens urges the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix to “publicly and unequivocally state his concern” about rights abuses by Bangladesh’s security forces when he visits the south Asian country later this month.
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Cuba Is Blamed for Deaths of Rights Activists in 2012
Tags Share On June 12, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights published a report holding the Cuban government responsible for the assassination of pro-democracy leaders Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, who were killed after a car crash provoked by Cuban state agents in 2012. Our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens discusses the…
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Cuban Government Is Responsible for Death of Dissident, Report Says
Tags Share “Government officials tried to blame their deaths on a car accident, but the Payá family knew better.” Our president Kerry Kennedy is quoted in The New York Times regarding RFK Human Rights’ decade-long quest for justice following the murder of Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá.
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