Europe
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Alexei Navalny Wrote Letters to Kerry Kennedy: An Interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper
Tags Share Alexei A. Navalny, Russian opposition leader and activist, was killed in the remote Russian prison known as Polar Wolf on February 16th. Throughout his life, he stood bravely against oppression and corruption, and the letters he sent from prison were another example of his continued resistance and courage. On February 20, Kerry Kennedy
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Alexey Navalny Wrote Letters to Kerry Kennedy
Tags Share “He was the Mandela of Russia. He carried forth the vision of accountability…and free expression.” Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, our president Kerry Kennedy reflects on the life and legacy of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Noting Mr. Navalny’s leadership in bolstering civic space, Kerry urges the U.S. – and the world –
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Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words
Tags Share In the final months of his life, Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny found solace in the words of Robert F. Kennedy and the reminder that a “ripple of hope” can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Read more about Mr. Navalny’s legacy as a human rights leader, and his correspondence
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The Business of Human Rights and Protections Abroad
Tags Share “We need to protect the journalists,” pleaded Mikhail Gershkovich, father of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who was arrested by Russia’s Federal Security Service on March 30, 2023, while on assignment. While his detention has been condemned by news organizations, human rights groups, and the Biden administration, Gershkovich has yet to
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Kateryna Yushchenko on “war fatigue,” ongoing peace agreements, and Ukrainian perseverance
Tags Share We in Ukraine continue to be angry, worried, sad and tired, but, as before, hopeful. Angry because the death and destruction continues. The Russians are targeting port facilities, thus limiting grain shipments and exacerbating the world food crisis, especially in Africa and the Middle East. They continue to target schools and hospitals, and
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Plea For A New Int’l Tribunal For Russia’s Crime Of Aggression
Tags Share By Olga Kostina The International Bar Association — the world’s leading organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies — adopted a resolution in late May condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging United Nations member states to support the creation of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute leaders of
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RFK Compass Investors Panel discusses how to rebuild Ukraine, today
Tags Share More than a year into Russia’s war against Ukraine, daily bombings are commonplace. So is the Ukrainian people’s indomitable spirit. But this ongoing war must not be viewed passively, as something that’s happening far away, members of one of Tuesday’s first panels at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Summer Investors Conference
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Kerry Kennedy and Dick Durbin: Hold Russia accountable for the crime of aggression in Ukraine
Tags Share A full year has passed since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in February 2022. Let us repeat that: a full year. As the rest of the world aged and grew, grappled with technological advances, inflation, record-breaking drought, flooding and political shifts, residents of Ukraine have been unable to escape the single, all-encompassing
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Genocide
Tags Share Elie Wiesel’s Interview with Kerry Kennedy KK: Why don’t you give in to futility, the sense that there’s nothing one person can do in the face of the world’s ills? What keeps you going? DR. WIESEL: When you think of the other you realize that something must be done. If I think of
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Peace
Tags Share Excerpts from Mairead Maguire’s remarks made at 2006 Gwangju Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates One of the consequences of 80 years of the Partition of Ireland has been the cutting off of people from each other in the North and South of the country, resulting in lack of communication, trust, and a fear
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on the Deteriorating Health of Georgia’s ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili in Detention
Tags Share I join the chorus of voices in expressing profound concern regarding the ongoing detention conditions of Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili amid recent reports of his possible poisoning and increasingly deteriorating health as confirmed by the country’s Public Defender. Like all sovereign nations, the Georgian government has an obligation under international human rights law
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