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In Bogota, a New Opportunity for Human Rights Education
Tags Share “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” We live in a time of destruction across the globe, where the greatest threat to peace is not an army or a nuclear war, but hate itself. Hate takes so many forms – Boko Haram in Nigeria, ISIS in Iraq and…
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A Fight Worth Having: An Inauguration Day of Action
Tags Share Friends, I won’t mince words: President Donald Trump’s inauguration means it is more important than ever that Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights redouble its commitment to the full scope of our humanitarian and social justice mission. We must push forward even more vocally in 2017 not just because several of President Trump’s proposals…
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Kerry Kennedy’s Letter to UN Security Council on Myanmar Crisis
Tags Share Dear President and Members of the Security Council, As you are aware, a human tragedy amounting to ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity is unfolding in Myanmar. Over the past two months, a military offensive by the Myanmar Army in Rakhine State has led to the killing of hundreds of Rohingya people. Over…
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RFK Human Rights Petitions IACHR on Extrajudicial Execution of Naua Native
Tags Share (Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero – Washington D.C., 12 de enero de 2017) The Centro de Derechos de la Montaña (Tlachinollan), the Centro de Derechos Humanos José María Morelos y Pavión (Centro Morelos) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on January 2nd, 2017 against…
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New Labor Dept. Guidance Opens Social Good Investing to Pensions
Tags Share (January 6, 2017 | New York) The U.S. Department of Labor has finally opened the door for pension funds to engage in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing after a three-year campaign from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass program. Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced new guidance allowing employee benefit plans to…
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RFK Human Rights, CEDIMAC Petition IACHR on Ciudad Juárez Disappearances
The petition filed on behalf of seven women disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2011 denounces Mexico for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute these violent femicides.
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VP Joe Biden, Howard Schultz, Scott Minerd to Receive 2016 Ripple of Hope AwardVP Joe Biden, Howard Schultz, Scott Minerd to Receive 2016 Ripple of Hope Award
Tags Share (November 28, 2016 | New York) On Tuesday, December 6, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will present the Ripple of Hope Award to its 2016 class of honorees including United States Vice President Joe Biden; Starbucks Chairman, President and CEO, Howard Schultz; and Guggenheim Partners’ Chairman of Investments / Global Chief Investment Officer…
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Andrea James, Glenn E. Martin Win 2016 RFK Human Rights Award
The award recognizes their indispensable work to end the racial and socioeconomic inequality perpetuated by the criminal legal system.
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RFK Human Rights Submits Report to UN
Tags Share Read the full report in English Read the full report in French (September 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, has submitted an alternative report to United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) to consider regarding Western Sahara as it reviews the…
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Morocco’s Noncompliance With MINURSO
Tags Share Last week marked 90 days since the UN Security Council demanded that the UN Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO) return to full functionality. As the deadline came and went, Japanese UN Ambassador Koro Bessho, Security Council president for July, lamented that “there was agreement by the (U.N.) secretariat as…
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Egypt’s Egregious Prison Conditions
Tags Share Prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Malek Adly, head of the legal unit for the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, has been held by Egyptian authorities in solitary confinement for 80 days. He is detained in a two by three square-meter cell and is not allowed recreation or exercise time. He is…
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RFK Human Rights Co-Sponsors Briefing on Civil Society Crackdown in Egypt
Tags Share On June 22, 2016, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) co-hosted a briefing titled, “Egypt’s Renewed Crackdown: The Struggle for Human Rights and Civil Society,” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The discussion featured TIMEP Executive Director Dr. Nancy Okail, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University…
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