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‘This country’: A Venezuelan’s reflection on her country’s challenges and RFKHR’s work to guarantee freedom of expression
Tags Share “This country,” the adults used to say when I was a kid growing up in Venezuela, leaving a blank space mid-sentence, hovering in the air. “This country needs!”, or “this country will eat us!” they would say, while slowly swinging their heads from side to side as if to accentuate their disbelief in…
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Cameroon: Amid deadly conflicts, activists Ngo Mbe and Nkongho inspire hope for closing civic space
Tags Share As the rest of the world welcomed a new month on June 1, residents of the village of Missong in Cameroon’s north-west region were thrown into mourning. Nine civilians, including an 18-month-old girl, were shot dead by soldiers in what the authorities themselves described as a “grossly disproportionate” and “hasty” response to “a…
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World Refugee Day: Despite obstacles, RFK Human Rights, others continue fight to end Title 42
Tags Share Last summer, when Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance received the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, she seized the occasion to advocate for an end to Title 42, a Trump administration policy that allows U.S. border officials to expel refugees back to Mexico or their home…
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Action-packed RFK Compass Investors Conference draws to a close Wednesday
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ three-day Compass Investors Summer Conference drew to a close Wednesday, another action-packed day, that included a fireside chat on navigating economic and political risks and featuring Saker Nusseibeh, CEO of Federated Hermes, and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Affairs, Beth Van Schaack. “We face extraordinary challenges at this moment,…
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Kim, Gurtz take on the importance of security and tangible ESG goals at RFK Compass Keynote
Tags Share What do an Uber driver, a chief pension investment officer, and a private equity investor all have in common? A profound appreciation for security, not just for themselves, but for others. Yup S. Kim and David Gurtz, who headlined Wednesday’s keynote address at the RFK Compass Summer Investors Conference Wednesday afternoon at the…
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Socos Labs co-founder Vivienne Ming: A.I. is a ‘tool with which we can understand ourselves’
Tags Share Vivienne Ming, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ newest board member, says she’s grateful to be at a place in her career where she gets to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. For fun, that is – and for free. The Socos Labs co-founder realized that, over years of work and sweat, artificial…
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‘This is the moment’: Why ending subminimum wage will help protect the dignity of workers
Tags Share Allen, a restaurant worker in Brooklyn, dreams of a day he can earn a stable wage and work in an industry no longer rife with sexual harassment, abuse, and discrimination by customers and fellow employees, he told nearly 300 attendees at the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Investors Summer Conference. That’s a goal more…
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Kerry Kennedy is a great supporter of my work, says Haitian health rights champion Loune Viaud
Tags Share In 2002, when Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights named Loune Viaud its Human Rights Award recipient, she was at the forefront of a rights-based campaign in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Haiti. For a period of five years after receiving the award, Viaud said Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights provided her with the…
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At WEF in Davos, Kennedy calls for ‘driving toward democracy’
Tags Share Urging for the conversation at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos to stretch beyond simply winning the war in Ukraine and fighting inflation, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy urged top business leaders to sharpen their gazes on advancing democracy, and with that, diversity, equity, and inclusion and the social…
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Cost of racism dominates Robert F. Kennedy Annual Book and Journalism Awards
Tags Share Two years after America’s great racial reckoning, the societal cost of racism and the decline of democracy continued to dominate the themes of winning entries of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ annual Book and Journalism Awards. “We are living in a time that would in many ways make Robert F. Kennedy shudder,” emcee…
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I felt better protected after receiving RFK Human Rights Award, says Venezuelan activist Alfredo Romero
Tags Share Alfredo Romero never planned to be an activist. With a degree in Law, a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University and another master’s degree in Banking Law from the London School of Economics, taking up the fight for human rights was not on his radar. “It was actually not something…
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Kerry Kennedy, mother of Vicky Hernandez celebrate Mother’s Day and discuss long-awaited justice
Tags Share San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Mother’s Day was a reunion seven years in the making for Kerry Kennedy and the mother of slain trans woman and activist, Vicky Hernandez. After climbing the steps to enter Vicky’s childhood home, the two women entered a tearful embrace. “Thank you for keeping hope alive and for…
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