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Hyeon Kim
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Hyeon Kim leads the University Students’ Association for Unification (USAU), the largest Korean human rights organization for college students, boasting over 330 college students from the North and South Koreas. His introduction to the topic began when his grandfather, a North Korean defector, left the country at the…
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Gwyneth Murphy
New Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Gwyneth Murphy was overwhelmed by the massive crowds of students that flooded Georgetown’s main campus on a Saturday morning when the University witnessed its first campus-wide Human Rights Summit. The crowd gathered for one reason: to learn more about human rights. And even though Georgetown is renowned…
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Christian Yohannes
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Young Defender Christian Yohannes is a 20-year-old George Washington University junior, from Leesburg, Virginia and a product of Loudoun County Public Schools. He is the son of Ethiopian immigrants, a community activist, a former White House Intern in the Biden-Harris Administration, and the youngest Second Vice-President in Loudoun County’s NAACP…
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Doan Viet Hoat
Biography: Doan Viet Hoat is known as the Sakharov of Vietnam for his intellectual range and outspoken role as leader of the democratic movement, even from the prison cell. Hoat protested the South Vietnamese government’s suppression of Buddhists in the 1960s while still a student. He went to study in the US and got a…
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