Our Voices
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Socos Labs co-founder Vivienne Ming: A.I. is a ‘tool with which we can understand ourselves’
Tags Share Vivienne Ming, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ newest board member, says she’s grateful to be at a place in her career where she gets to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. For fun, that is – and for free. The Socos Labs co-founder realized that, over years of work and sweat, artificial…
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‘This is the moment’: Why ending subminimum wage will help protect the dignity of workers
Tags Share Allen, a restaurant worker in Brooklyn, dreams of a day he can earn a stable wage and work in an industry no longer rife with sexual harassment, abuse, and discrimination by customers and fellow employees, he told nearly 300 attendees at the Robert F. Kennedy Compass Investors Summer Conference. That’s a goal more…
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Bangladesh: Stop Punishing Human Rights Work
Tags Share Bangladeshi authorities should immediately reverse their decision to deregister prominent human rights organization, Odhikar, eleven organizations said today. Human rights defenders should be allowed to conduct their work without fear of reprisals, intimidation, and harassment from the authorities. On June 5, 2022, Bangladesh’s Non-Governmental Organization Affairs Bureau sent a letter to Odhikar, denying…
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Kerry Kennedy is a great supporter of my work, says Haitian health rights champion Loune Viaud
Tags Share In 2002, when Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights named Loune Viaud its Human Rights Award recipient, she was at the forefront of a rights-based campaign in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Haiti. For a period of five years after receiving the award, Viaud said Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights provided her with the…
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#RFKChat: We are very concerned about surveillance and internet shutdowns, says CPJ’s Gypsy Guillén Kaiser
Tags Share On Tuesday May 31, 2022, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted a Tweet Chat with Gypsy Guillén Kaiser, Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The conversation, our second on the issue of press freedom in the month of May, focused on the challenges journalists currently face, from…
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At WEF in Davos, Kennedy calls for ‘driving toward democracy’
Tags Share Urging for the conversation at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos to stretch beyond simply winning the war in Ukraine and fighting inflation, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy urged top business leaders to sharpen their gazes on advancing democracy, and with that, diversity, equity, and inclusion and the social…
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Cost of racism dominates Robert F. Kennedy Annual Book and Journalism Awards
Tags Share Two years after America’s great racial reckoning, the societal cost of racism and the decline of democracy continued to dominate the themes of winning entries of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ annual Book and Journalism Awards. “We are living in a time that would in many ways make Robert F. Kennedy shudder,” emcee…
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