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Recognizing World Mental Health Day
Carlos Rodriguez, a RFK Young Leader, shares his personal journey navigating mental health stigmas.
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RFK Human Rights Submit Amicus Brief on Gómez Virula Case
The brief highlights the dire situation faced by labor unionists like Gómez in Guatemala, as well as the state’s failure to prevent Gómez’s forced disappearance and murder 23 years ago.
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RFK Human Rights Announces Mass Bail Out Action of Hundreds of Incarcerated Women and Youth
The action has attracted over 200 volunteers to free women and young people in New York City who are jailed because they cannot afford to post bail.
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RFK Human Rights, Discovery Education Launch Initiative to Engage Next Generation of Human Rights Defenders
The new initiative, Speak Truth To Power: Raising New Voices In Human Rights, aims to inspire global citizenry in students and teachers to help prevent human rights abuses and violations.
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2018 RFK Ripple of Hope Award Laureates Announced
President Barack Obama, Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, and Humana CEO Bruce D. Broussard were named this year’s Ripple of Hope Award laureates.
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The Bonfilio Rubio Villegas Case
An example of the relationship between military checkpoints and gross human rights violations in Mexico.
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9th Annual RFK Compass Investor Conference in Hyannis Port
Tags Share Last month we hosted our 9th Annual RFKennedy Compass Investor Conference in Hyannis Port, bringing together over 300 institutional investors, fund managers and thought leaders around the themes of Diversity, Social Investing and Private Equity at the historic Kennedy Compound. Fifty years ago, Bobby Kennedy ran an inspiring and pivotal Presidential campaign that…
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Joint Letter: Secretary Pompeo Must Prioritize Human Rights During Mexico Visit
The signing organizations expressed deep concern over the closing of space for human rights defenders and journalists to carry out their work without threats to their life.
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Speak Truth to Power’s Swedish Young Ambassadors
Tags Share In Sweden, right wing extremist parties have gained public support in the last few years. Anti-refugee and anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise, and there is increased polarization among different socio-economic, ethnic and religious groups. While Sweden remains a wealthy country, impoverished pockets in the inner cities, inhabited predominantly by immigrants, still…
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In Memory of Vicky Hernandez: A Long Struggle for Justice
Tags Share Nine years ago today, June 29, 2009, a 26-year-old Honduran transgender woman was killed for expressing her gender identity. Honduran security forces shot Vicky in the head during the night of June 28 – 29, 2009 during a curfew imposed soon after the coup d’etat. Nine years later, and despite evidence that Vicky…
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