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Read Our Past Issues
In the October 2024 Good Trouble Brief:
- Meet the 2024-2025 John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship cohort;
- Learn more about a California Assembly bill, championed by a former John Lewis Young Leaders fellow Saanvi Arora, that mandates education on the dangers of drug-assisted sexual assault on college campuses;
- Hear from JLYL alumnus Miguel Johnson as he shares his vital efforts in promoting clean energy and driving #climate reform.
In the September 2024 Human Rights Insider:
- Our latest Book Club discussion featuring The New York Times bestselling author Timothy Egan and his book A Fever in the Heartland;
- Congratulating Susan Clark Livingston on being named a 2024 Ripple of Hope Award laureate;
- A new California Assembly bill that mandates education on the dangers of drug-assisted sexual assault on college campuses was championed by a former JLYL fellow Saanvi Arora.
In the September 2024 Charting the Course:
- RFKHR’s VP of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation Anthony Enriquez discusses the role of private prisons in driving mass incarceration in the U.S., unveiling a new report that exposes alarming systemic human rights abuses in Louisiana ICE detention facility;
- RFKHR’s President Kerry Kennedy urges leaders in the investment sector to embrace diversity at inaugural Connective Capital Consortium;
- The latest team updates, events, and other departmental news.
In the August 2024 Justice Roundup:
- From Venezuela to Bangladesh, state authorities have violently suppressed protests around the globe;
- The precedent set by the African Commission’s landmark decision finding that the Government of Ethiopia violated the rights of all Ethiopians to participate freely in the 2015 elections;
- Systemic failures of the U.S. criminal legal system underscored by Sonya Massey’s murder.
In the August 2024 Human Rights Education Update:
- Our partnership with Schools That Can recognizes the educators, administrators, and students around the country who work tirelessly to improve their communities and school culture;
- Discover how our youth organizing workshops empower the next generation of human rights defenders to take action in their communities;
- How our lead educator Stephanie Thliveris integrates human rights into her sixth grade science classroom through an engaging multidisciplinary project.