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The Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Fund
The legacy of our founder, Ethel Kennedy, continues to inspire us with her example of courage and tremendously impactful life. Her vision has served as the cornerstone of RFK Human Rights for nearly 60 years. Ethel seemed to effortlessly combine the roles of devoted wife, loving mother, tireless campaigner, and gracious hostess with her formidable presence as an activist, advocate, and defender of those oppressed.
Months after Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s death, she founded RFK Human Rights with friends and family to carry forth his unfinished work. Over her 96 years, she was a ceaseless champion for justice—marching, protesting, lobbying and confronting, raising funds, calling for the release of unjustly imprisoned human rights defenders, and sitting with victims, compassionately listening, readying to take their stories to the world.
Ethel’s extraordinary courage and dedication to human rights continue to motivate our team every day, inspiring us to hold governments accountable, promote human rights education and youth organizing, advance dignity and equity in workplaces and investment communities, and uplift grassroots changemakers. Consider making a gift in her memory to the Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Fund. You will be helping RFK Human Rights continue the work that was so close to her heart.
“For anyone to achieve something, he must show a little courage. You’re only on this earth once. You must give it all you’ve got.”
– Ethel Kennedy