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As Big Tech Grows, So Does Its Responsibility To Protect Workers in the Global South
Tags Share Between billion-dollar investments in AI, year-over-year increases in revenue, and an ever-expanding social media audience, Big Tech’s momentum shows no slowing in 2025. Amid this growth, one foundational element is often ignored: the invisible human labor sustaining Big Tech. Contract workers in the Global South are moderating harmful content on social media platforms…
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RFK Human Rights Joins World Press Freedom Day Celebrations in Brussels
Tags Share At the invitation of UNESCO’s Global Media Defence Fund, RFK Human Rights joined other media freedom stakeholders from around the world to commemorate the 2025 World Press Freedom Day in Brussels, Belgium, from May 5 to 7, 2025. The celebration was organized under the theme Reporting in a Brave New World: The Impact…
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#TunisiaExit – Unpacking Tunisia’s Restriction on Citizens’ Access to the African Court
Tags Share In early March, Tunisia officially revoked its citizens’ abilities to file cases against the government in Africa’s human rights court. On March 7, 2025, Tunisia notified the African Union (AU) of its decision to withdraw the Article 34(6) declaration that allows individuals and non-governmental organizations to file cases against it before the African Court…
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Confronting the Digital Rights Crisis: Insights from RightsCon Taipei
Tags Share Two weeks ago, every hallway and corner of the Taipei International Convention Center buzzed with digital rights advocates strategizing, innovating, and forging solutions. In a global moment of unprecedented uncertainty, RightsCon provided a platform for advocates to roadmap a plan of action as powerful as the challenges ahead. During the last week of…
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DEI Upholds a Core American Value
Tags Share As a result of the ongoing US presidential election, the news media has been filled with stories about the concept of a “DEI hire”. From legal action against funding for Black women-owned businesses to the rise of a new acronym—MEI (merit, excellence, and intelligence)—aimed at undermining decades of progress, efforts, and data-backed results,…
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Emergency Funding Support for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists
RFK Human Rights’ latest resource lists different sources of emergency funding to support journalists and human rights defenders in their crucial work.
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L.A. high school second to adopt whole-school model for human rights education
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights staff and a group of educators in Los Angeles formally began a new partnership in late April as the Business in Artivism Management (BAM) Learning Community at Edward Roybal Learning Center prepares to become the nation’s second “human rights centered school.” The initiative involves centering human rights education…
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This Teacher Appreciation Day, we’re showcasing what our educators are writing
Tags Share Two Speak Truth to Power educators have contributed to new books on social justice and implementing a human rights curriculum in the classroom. Robin DeLuca-Acconi, assistant dean for student services in the School of Social Welfare at Stony Brook University, has written a chapter with her former colleague, Denise Campbell, assistant superintendent for…
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Frank Mugisha: RFK Human Rights Award gave Uganda’s LGBTQ+ community international prominence
Tags Share By Ohimai Amaize One evening in the spring of 2011, Frank Mugisha was in the middle of work mobilizing advocacy against Uganda’s anti-gay legislation when he received a phone call. It was Ethel Kennedy, founder of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights on the line. Mugisha, who heads Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG)—the country’s largest…
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Ukrainian children fighting cancer airlifted to treatment center in Greece through initiative of Ripple of Hope Laureate Vardinoyannis
Tags Share At least 40 Ukrainian children being treated for cancer will be airlifted to Athens to the pediatric oncology unit bearing the name of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, Ripple of Hope Laureate and chair of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Greece Marianna V. Vardinoyannis. The Ukrainian patients will be accompanied by their parents and family…
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As Ukrainians fight for freedom, democracy, former leaders of Georgia, Ukraine weigh in on crisis at STTP event
Tags Share The invasion of Ukraine is Russia’s “last attempt” to crush the country, reclaim its empire and reestablish a pre-World War II era of “rule by might,” a former deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Eka Tkeshelashvili has said. “This is the new concept that Russia is imposing on all of us—accepting the fact that…
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RFK Compass Investors 2022 SXSW Conference
Tags Share “Every asset class has been leveraged in the growth of mass incarceration and every asset class must be a part of decarceration. We are asking investors to align their capital with our values.” –Christina Hollenback The RFK Compass Investors team successfully hosted its very first panel at SXSW in Austin Texas on March…
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