Events
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Frontline Fighters: Safeguarding Environmental Defenders in the Amazon
Share Join us for a crucial discussion on the protection of environmental human rights defenders, especially those on the frontlines of the climate crisis in the Amazon. Through the firsthand accounts of Indigenous leaders, this side event will explore the human and cultural costs of defending the Amazon and the urgent need for stronger protection…
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Human Rights Education Speaker Series: A Conversation with Pauline Arrillaga
Share Pauline Arrillaga, a Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University, and 2023 fellows Elise Gregg, Joseph Kual Zakaria, and Mingson Lau, were winners of this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book and Journalism Grand Prize. In this panel, they will discuss their work documenting the far-reaching impact of the Supreme…
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RFKHR Book Club—A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan
Share Join us for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Club Conversation at 12 pm EDT/9 am PT on August 27. We host these virtual gatherings as features of our summer reading list to engage our members, amplify social justice activists, authors, and journalists, and provide a deep dive into our work. Our September…
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RFKHR Book Club—Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley
Share Join us for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Club Conversation at 1 pm EDT/10 am PT on July 23. We host these virtual gatherings as features of our summer reading list to engage our members, amplify social justice activists, authors, and journalists, and provide a deep dive into our work. Our July…
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STTP Video Contest Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival
Share Celebrate the winners of the 2024 Speak Truth To Power Video Contest at the Tribeca Film Festival. Student filmmakers have produced incredible films that spotlight critical human rights issues and the Defenders who are fighting to improve the situation. Doors open at 4:30 and the event begins at 5:00pm. Location Tribeca Film Festival Screening…
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2024 Ripple of Hope Award Gala
Share Each year, the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award honors exemplary leaders across government, business, advocacy, and entertainment who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to social change and worked to protect and advance equity, justice, and human rights. This year’s laureates will be honored in New York City on Wednesday, December 11: Learn…
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Las personas defensoras en la emergencia climática: la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos / Defenders in the Climate Emergency: the Advisory Opinion of the IACHR
Share Actualmente, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos see encuentra estudiando la solicitud de Opinión Consultiva (OC) presentada por Colombia y Chile, a través de la cual se buscan aclarar las obligaciones de los Estados en materia de derechos humanos en el contexto de la emergencia climática. Este procedimiento de OC ha generado gran interés…
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2024 Book and Journalism Awards Virtual Ceremony
Register now for the virtual celebration, where we’ll reveal this year’s winners. The ceremony will premiere at 12 p.m. EDT and will re-air at 3 p.m. EDT.
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2024 Human Rights Award Ceremony
Share The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award identifies and honors those who embody Robert F. Kennedy’s belief that the power of individual and collective moral courage can overcome injustice. Each year, we honor outstanding champions of social justice who stand up to oppression, even at great personal risk, in the nonviolent pursuit of human…
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Investing in Equity: Navigating DEIA Realities
Share Despite the recent discourse surrounding initiatives aimed at equity and justice, the investment industry has witnessed the increasingly evident value of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) across their people, portfolios, and business practices. During this virtual roundtable, RFK Compass Investors will bring together a broad range of expertise, from academia to the investment…
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Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity in Venezuela
Share Venezuela is facing a severe human rights crisis, marked by widespread and systematic violations and crimes committed by the Nicolás Maduro government and its security forces. These include extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, torture, persecution of political opponents, and repression of protests. The government has also failed to address the humanitarian emergency that…
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2024 TCS New York City Marathon
Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has been selected as a charity partner of the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon on November 3! Apply to become one of our five team members by September 15! We will select our runners from the pool of applicants. When you join our team, you’ll be running for…
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