Lessons
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Human Rights Violations During War
Tags Share Chung Koo-do, Chairman of the No Gun Ri Peace Foundation, has devoted his life to revealing the truth about the No Gun Ri Incident and advocating for human rights for over 30 years. Eunyong Chung, Chairman Chung’s father, lost his 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter at No Gun Ri in late July of…
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Domestic violence
Tags Share Marina Pisklakova’s Interview with Kerry Kennedy When I started the first domestic violence hot line in Russia in 1993 (we named it ANNA, Association No to Violence), I was alone, answering calls four hours a day, every day, for six months. I was counseling people in person the other four hours. I couldn’t…
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Genocide
Tags Share Elie Wiesel’s Interview with Kerry Kennedy KK: Why don’t you give in to futility, the sense that there’s nothing one person can do in the face of the world’s ills? What keeps you going? DR. WIESEL: When you think of the other you realize that something must be done. If I think of…
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Police brutality
Tags Share Van Jones’ Interview with Kerry Kennedy The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy center for documenting and exposing human rights violations in the United States—particularly those perpetuated by law enforcement. A project of the Center, Bay Area Police Watch has a hotline that opened in 1995 here in the San…
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Refugee rights
Tags Share We are currently facing the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Millions are fleeing conflict and persecution around the world, creating the highest level of migration in eighty years. The global displacement of people is complex and difficult to bring into classroom learning and discussions. Through stories of youth refugees, photos and…
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Apartheid and racial discrimination
Tags Share Excerpts from Nelson Mandela’s Presidential Inaugural Address, 1994 Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Comrades and Friends: Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world, confer glory and hope to newborn liberty. Out of the experience of an extraordinary…
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Peace
Tags Share Excerpts from Mairead Maguire’s remarks made at 2006 Gwangju Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates One of the consequences of 80 years of the Partition of Ireland has been the cutting off of people from each other in the North and South of the country, resulting in lack of communication, trust, and a fear…
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Farmworkers’ rights
Tags Share Lucas Benitez’s remarks at 2003 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony Mrs. Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, and Ms. Kerry Kennedy, I bring you thanks from all the members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers for this wonderful day. But before I begin, I feel that I must tell you that today my companeros and I…
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Healthcare
Tags Share Loune Viaud’s remarks at 2002 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony I am grateful to the Kennedy family for this prestigious recognition and thankful to the staff of the RFK Memorial for all their hard work in getting the ceremony together. I also want to thank the staff of Partners in Health, and the…
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Labor rights and farmworkers’ rights
Tags Share Remarks made at 2012 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony My name is Librada Paz. Librada means liberty and Paz means peace. So my name is also my work. I am of the indigenous Mixtec people from southern Mexico. The history of the Mixtec is much older than the United States. Like so many…
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Corporate responsibility
Tags Share Ka Hsaw Wa’s interview with Kerry Kennedy I’ve been doing this for eleven years. Most of the time I coordinate fieldwork, collect information, conduct fact-finding missions, and train my staff to do the same, specifically in the pipeline area of the U.S. oil company Unocal. We currently have a lawsuit pending against Unocal.…
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Human trafficking and modern slavery
Tags Share Juliana Dogbadzi’s interview with Kerry Kennedy I have never been in a classroom. I have never been to school. When I was seven years old, my parents took me from our home and sent me to a shrine where I was a slave to a fetish priest for seventeen years. My grandfather, they…
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