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Are You Enabling Surveillance Capitalism in Your Portfolio?
Tags Share From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, companies of all sorts are looking to collect and monetize information about you, ranging from your whereabouts to your shopping behavior to your email habits. Welcome to the world of surveillance capitalism. It’s a term every investor…
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Private Equity Firms Reevaluate Priorities
Tags Share Private equity executives who gathered at the RFK Compass Investor Virtual Summit in October described a year of challenges and opportunities that have inspired them to reflect on and reevaluate their priorities. On the bright side, private equity firms’ worst-case scenarios did not come to fruition, and many of their portfolio companies weathered…
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Racial Equity Investing Helps Bridge Wealth Gap
Tags Share Institutional investors who are troubled by the economic disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. don’t have to settle for the status quo. They can take action by investing their portfolios in ways that help undo those structural inequities. This call to action was one of the solutions institutional investors offered…
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El Caso Histórico de la Activista Trans Vicky Hernández
Tags Share ESTE CASO HISTÓRICO NO SÓLO PODRÍA DAR A LA FAMILIA DE VICKY LA JUSTICIA PENDIENTE POR MUCHO TIEMPO, SINO QUE TIENE EL POTENCIAL DE SENTAR UN PRECEDENTE MÁS AMPLIO SOBRE LOS DERECHOS DE LAS PERSONAS TRANS PARA PROTEGER A INNUMERABLES PERSONAS EN TODA LATINOAMÉRICA QUE HAN SIDO ATACADAS Y ASESINADAS POR SU IDENTIDAD…
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We’re Taking Honduras to Court for the Murder of Trans Activist Vicky Hernández
The landmark case has the potential to set a wider precedent on trans rights, protecting countless people across Latin America who have been targeted and killed for their gender identity.
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5 Facts You Need to Know About Vicky Hernández v. Honduras
Tags Share On November 11, 2020, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will join the Red Lésbica Cattrachas, our co-counsel, to argue the case of Vicky Hernández vs. Honduras. Here’s what you need to know about this landmark case and what it could mean for trans women as well as the broader LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
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“Boys State” Panel Holds Up Mirror to Country’s Division
Tags Share In the midst of an election season marked by historic rancor and voter disenfranchisement, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights offered a look behind the scenes of a political world sometimes forgotten these days—a high-energy, values-driven electoral process spearheaded by young people. Boys State is a documentary about the Texas summer program that educates…
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Calling on the Myanmar Government to Act
Civic space repression and exclusion of Rohingyas undermine Myanmar’s election.
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The Deterioration of Democracy and Human Rights in Tanzania
Tags Share To: President John Magufuli Excellency, We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about the continued deterioration of democracy, human rights and rule of law in the United Republic of Tanzania. In the past five years, we have documented the steady decline of the country into a state of repression, evidenced by…
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Standing Up Against the “Shut Up and Work” Workplace
Employees shouldn’t have to ignore external events or put their personal lives on hold in the name of profits.
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The Crucial Role of Journalists in Protecting Peaceful Assembly
Tags Share When we think about journalists and human rights, we naturally think first about freedom of expression. Journalists, like all of us, have a right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds,” as stated in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). And their exercise…
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RFK Human Rights Wins Civic Space Case Before UN Working Group
The decision found journalist Omoyele Sowore was arbitrarily detained for practicing his fundamental rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
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