Events
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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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Book Club: Poverty, by America with Matthew Desmond
Share Join us for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Club Conversation at 2 pm EDT/11 am PT April 24. We host these quarterly virtual gatherings to engage our members, amplify social justice activists, authors, and journalists, and provide a deep dive into our work. This month’s selection, Poverty, by America by sociologist Matthew
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Book Club: Tired of Winning with Jonathan Karl
Share Join us for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Club Conversation at 2 pm EDT/11 am PT on February 26. We host these quarterly virtual gatherings to engage our members, amplify social justice activists, authors, and journalists, and provide a deep dive into our work. This month’s selection, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump
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Combating Climate Change and Protecting Human Rights and Environmental Defenders: a Cross-Regional Discussion
Share The climate emergency is the defining crisis of our time. In response to the climate crisis, environmental defenders are protecting our planet in a myriad of ways, including through protest against and peaceful resistance to extractive industries or through traditional farming practices, journalism, lawyering, land management, and various other means. At the same time,
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Cross-Regional Reflections on Violence Against Women Journalists
Share Following the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25, RFK Human Rights is convening a webinar to discuss violence against women journalists. The webinar will serve as a cross-regional platform to celebrate the work of women journalists from across Africa and Latin America and beyond, as well as highlight
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John Lewis Young Leaders Information Session
Share The John Lewis Young Leaders program is a year-long fellowship that prepares college students for a future in community organizing and civic engagement. This informational session will provide people with more information on the program, model capstone projects, tips on writing an application, benefits of the program, and more. Register today!
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