Meet five innovative and inspiring human rights educators and learn how they are preparing the next generation of human rights defenders.

How Speak Truth to Power is Relevant in Students’ Communities

Incorporating windows and mirrors into your teaching can allow students to see themselves and others in their human rights learning and advocacy.

How Speak Truth to Power Promotes Social and Emotional Learning

Connecting human rights education and social-emotional learning so that students have the knowledge and skills to thrive in school and life.

How Speak Truth to Power Prepares Students for C3 Standards

Helping students understand what it means to be an engaged and active citizen.

Speak Truth to Power’s Real World Applications in the Classroom

Teaching that supports students in their everyday lives: building character, creating connections, and knowing how to treat one another.

How Speak Truth to Power Helps Teach 21st Century Skills

Preparing students to handle 21st-century challenges using communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.

New year, new us. Same mission.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

While our name is changing, our mission and work remain the same. We will continue to fight injustice, advance human rights, and hold governments accountable around the world in 2026 and beyond.