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How Private Equity Can Help Corporate America Keep its Diversity Pledges
Private equity firms and the investors who back them are in a unique position to help companies diversify their boards, c-suites, and cubicles.
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How the Climate Crisis Impacts Women’s Rights in the Caribbean
Tags Share BY GABRIELA VALENTIN Globally, the climate crisis has a disproportionate impact on women’s access to their human rights. This is certainly the case in the Caribbean, where the climate crisis is worsening existing gender inequities. From Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, to earthquakes in Puerto Rico, and volcanic eruptions in St. Vincent, the…
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Joint Amicus Brief Supports Colombian Protection Action for Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share International Service for Human Rights, Front Line Defenders, (the Center for Information on Business and Human Rights, CIVICUS, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights presented an amicus brief on the right to defend human rights as an autonomous right before the Colombian Constitutional Court on April 21, 2021. Colombia is the most deadly…
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How Cash Bail Robs People of Their Dignity and Resources
A new educational video shows how cash bail punishes the poor long before their day in court.
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Letter to Secretary Blinken on the Human Rights Crisis in Myanmar
Tags Share April 7, 2021 To: Antony Blinken, Secretary of State CC: Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor; Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Jeff Zients, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator; Samantha Power, USAID Administrator Nominee Secretary Blinken: We write as concerned human rights organizations, humanitarian organizations, medical professional associations, labor organizations, and refugee…
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How to Embrace a Data-Driven Shift Toward ESG
Tags Share If you weren’t able to make it to our spring investor summit, which was held March 16-17, 2021, or you missed some of the sessions, you can catch up here by reading about the most critical takeaways. ABOUT COMPASS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUMMIT SUMMIT RECORDINGS SUMMIT PROGRAM BOOK CONTACT OUR TEAM
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Amicus Brief Calls for Colombia to Better Protect Journalists
In our amicus brief with GW Law School, we argue that the State of Colombia had a reinforced due diligence duty to prevent and investigate the violence suffered by Bedoya for being a woman, a journalist, and a human rights defender in the country’s armed conflict context.
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Bangladesh: ‘Golden Jubilee’ Should Be Turning Point on Human Rights
Tags Share (New York, March 26, 2021) – Governments joining the celebrations to mark the 50th Founding Anniversary of Bangladesh and to honor the birth centenary of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 26, 2021, should know that Bangladeshis are enduring an escalating crackdown on human rights by the Awami League-led government, a group…
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Colombia: Ensure Justice for Killed Protester
Colombian authorities should respect the right of peaceful assembly and ensure independent investigations of the police and its use of force against protesters.
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Colombia Debe Asegurar Justicia Por Homicidio De Manifestante
Human Rights Watch Y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Presentan Amicus Ante Corte Constitucional
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New Trans Rights Lesson Plan for Teachers
The free classroom resource, produced in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, equips and engages students to become better allies of the LGBTQ community.
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UN Petition: Arbitrary Detention of Paul Rusesabagina
Tags Share On March 16, 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Choharis Law Group jointly submitted a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Paul Rusesabagina. Mr. Rusesabagina is a prominent humanitarian and political activist who was kidnapped by Rwandan authorities on August 27, 2020, held incommunicado, and…
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