Our Voices
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Buffalo Schools Take Important Step Toward Equity
Tags Share Amidst a year of near constant setbacks and disappointments due to a worldwide pandemic, we are heartened to see the proactive steps toward educational equity being taken by Buffalo Public Schools. Today’s forum with anti-racist scholar Ibram X. Kendi is far from an isolated event. The district’s Office of Culturally & Linguistically Responsive…
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Zoel Boublil Joins Speak Truth to Power Youth Advisory Board
Tags Share George School is proud to announce that Zoel Boublil ’21 has been chosen as an inaugural member of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Speak Truth to Power (STTP) Youth Advisory Board. The STTP Youth Advisory Board empowers youth through human rights education, partnering with educators and students alike to create a global…
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U.S. Advocates Fear Creation of a Hierarchy of Human Rights
Tags Share As the Trump administration tries to further limit the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens, advocates are particularly concerned by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s controversial Commission on Unalienable Rights, which would relegate some rights, including marriage equality and abortion, to the status of “political controversies” or “preferences.” While a new administration could disregard…
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Democracy Is at Stake in Nigeria and Demands Action
We urge our leaders in Washington to wake up, take action, and stand with #EndSARS protesters while we can still make a difference.
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Our Civic Duties Don’t End On Election Day
We must push our ideas of civic responsibility past the ballot by remaining informed and supporting marginalized groups.
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Bangladesh: Stop Intimidating Activists, Victims’ Families
Tags Share The Bangladesh authorities should end the ongoing harassment and threats against activists, human rights defenders, and their families by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, four human rights groups said today. Amnesty International, Asian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemned the government’s attacks on those exercising their…
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Teen Who Spent 40 Days in Adult Prison Savors Second Chance
Tags Share In 2018, RFK Human Rights bailed out 16-year-old Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes from adult prison. Now, her charges have finally been dropped and she has a clean slate. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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Groups Unite to Post Millions of Dollars in Bonds to Free Immigrants
Tags Share For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network, Detention Watch Network, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, have begun posting $3 million in bond to…
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Brazilian Indigenous Leader Wins Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award
Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku was named the winner of the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for her work defending the rights, ancestral lands, and culture of indigenous people in Brazil. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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‘We Are Being Squeezed,’ says Prize-Winning Indigenous Activist
Tags Share Alessandra Munduruku, a leader of Brazil’s Munduruku indigenous community, has seen her home broken into and been threatened over her work defending her people and their Amazon land from illegal miners and loggers, hydropower plants, and other threats. On Thursday, the 36-year-old received the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for “her work defending…
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We Cannot Condone the Myanmar Government’s Lies
Tags Share Of course, the details never added up. But now, with recent confessions from two Myanmar Army soldiers, the truth hangs in the open air, exposing the blatant lies that government officials have told about their genocide against the Rohingya. That truth was already clear to the dozen of us—human rights lawyers, activists, documentarians,…
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