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Young Leader Alexa Browning talks about civic engagement, criminal justice reform, and her advice to other youth organizers
Tags Share This world, Robert F. Kennedy said, “demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.” That’s why Robert F. Kennedy Human…
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RFK Compass Investors Applauds NY State Common Retirement Fund for Supporting Ending the Subminimum Wage
Tags Share At an October 19 investor and legislator briefing co-hosted by RFK Compass Investors in New York City, Tom DiNapoli, New York State comptroller, shared the actions the New York State Common Retirement Fund is taking to end the subminimum wage as part of a coalition effort calling for One Fair Wage. The fund…
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Key takeaways from our Compass Investors fall summit
Tags Share Fair wages: On the precipice of historic change Restaurant workers who have suffered for decades under the federal subminimum wage of $2.13 per hour may be about to get some relief. Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, told summit attendees that “we’re on the precipice of historic change” when it comes to…
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This fall, Bangor High School welcomed a sense of normalcy and a new social-emotional program
Tags Share At Bangor High School in Maine, a return to campus full time has brought students a sense of normalcy—and a steady and safe environment in which to learn, grow, and be themselves. It’s also brought them something new: the rollout of a first-of-its-kind partnership with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to…
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Youth Advisory Board, Russian activist team up to combat gender-based violence
Tags Share In 2012, Rashida Manjoo, then the UN special rapporteur on violence against women, called for a new global framework to address violence against women. Activists around the world heard this call and formed Every Woman Treaty, a unique and diverse coalition of scholars, lawyers, and frontline practitioners who are working to promote ratification…
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5 Things to Know about the Oswaldo Payá vs. Cuba Case
Tags Share On December 14, the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a public (virtual) hearing on the case of Oswaldo Payá Sardinas, Harold Cepero et al vs Cuba. The case was filed by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in 2013. During the hearing, the IACHR will hear the testimonies of family…
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Unworthy Republic author gives RFK Human Rights staff, supporters a look into research on award-winning book
Tags Share Surprisingly, it was a box of letters he inherited from his Hungarian grandfather that inspired Claudio Saunt to write about Native American dispossession. Saunt, who won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, said reading the letters, which…
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RFK Compass Investors Interview with Saru Jayaraman
Tags Share Saru Jayraman has been at the forefront of advocating for tipped workers to be paid what they’re worth instead of subsisting on the meager wages provided by the $2.13 subminimum wage to tipped workers under federal law. Even when you add tips on top, it’s not anywhere near what a worker needs to…
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It’s Way Past Time to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage
It need not have taken a global pandemic to prompt restaurants to start paying their workers more. Still, without a federal minimum wage, many are leaving the industry altogether.
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Eight Years of La Sentencia
Dominicans of Haitian descent continue to be denied their right to nationality.
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Victory for Press Freedom in Somalia
The UN has declared the arrest and detention of our client, journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur, in Somalia is in violation of international law.
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Getting Into ‘Good Trouble’
Two members of our Speak Truth to Power Youth Advisory Board share what John Lewis’ concept of “good trouble” meant to them and how it has had an impact on their own community organizing.
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