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New school year, new video contest: 2024 submissions now open!
Tags Share Without question, a highlight every year is the screening of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth to Power video contest winners at the TriBeCa Festival. Over more than ten years, students from across the country and internationally have submitted films addressing the full spectrum of human rights issues. Students are bold and…
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Educator at the Blanton Museum of Art, Carlen Floyd Describes a Roundabout Path to Making Art History and Education Her Life’s Work
Tags Share As the Museum Educator for School Programs at the Blanton Museum of Art, located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, I would love to tell you that I’ve had a lifelong devotion to art, that I studied art history and art education, that I have always given art the…
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International Equal Pay Day
Tags Share From the service industry to the C-suite, women face a persistent – and startling – pay disparity compared to their male coworkers, particularly white, male co-workers. September 18 marks International Equal Pay Day, a day designed to build upon the United Nations’ commitment to human rights and against all forms of discrimination, including…
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US violates human rights of Black immigrants: shadow report to UN Human Rights Committee for the fifth periodic review of the US under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Receiving Body United Nations Human Rights Committee Report Type Shadow report for the fifth periodic review of the United States under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Tags Partners
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STTP Speaker Series: From Programming to Philanthropy to Advance Women’s Human Rights
Tags Share Join Zaynab Nawaz, Senior Director of Program and Learning with Women Moving Millions, and student moderator Angelina Pouhe, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, in a conversation about women’s human rights from programming to philanthropy. We will discuss the current state of women’s and girls’ rights, and the role the philanthropic community…
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NCWIT Conversations for Change with Shijuade Kadree and Jeffrey Siminoff: The Criminalization of Inclusion
Tags Share In the backdrop of anti-DEI proposals, policies and legislation across the U.S., fueling anti-DEI rhetoric and complicating equity initiatives, Shijuade Kadree of the Aspen Institute and Jeffrey Siminoff addresses the complicated landscape of DEI advocacy within the current climate, and how to do equity work amid uncertainty alongside strategies to promote inclusivity.
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NCWIT Conversations for Change with Shijuade Kadree and Jeffrey Siminoff: The Criminalization of Inclusion
In the backdrop of anti-DEI proposals, policies and legislation across the U.S., fueling anti-DEI rhetoric and complicating equity initiatives, Shijuade Kadree of the Aspen Institute and Jeffrey Siminoff addresses the complicated landscape of DEI advocacy within the current climate, and how to do equity work amid uncertainty alongside strategies to promote inclusivity.
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Civil Rights Groups Challenge Discriminatory Law Unfairly Impacting Black Children of Unwed U.S. Citizen Fathers
Tags Share WASHINGTON — Civil rights attorneys for Damion Glenroy Davis will present oral arguments before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 7 to end a law that excluded naturalized citizen fathers from passing U.S. citizenship to immigrant children who were born “out of wedlock.” Although the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA)…
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Student Lilah Catron on the STTP Austin Summer Institute
Tags Share At Science Hill High School in Johnson City TN, I run Social Wise, a club dedicated to promoting conversations amongst peers about current events. We believe that knowledge and civil discussion is what will pave the road to the future. I have been involved with RFKHR for the past year with SocialWise. This…
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Student Madison Thomas On STTP’s Civil Rights Trip
Tags Share The RFK Human and Civil rights trip was an enlightening experience for both me and my peers. We started the trip off by visiting the Blanton Museum of Art, the focus of the tour was on how diversity is expressed through art. First, we sat down and analyzed a complex painting that seemed…
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Dignity at Work for Educators
Tags Share In a panel conversation at the 2023 Teacher Training Institute in San Diego, Jeffrey Siminoff moderated a conversation with two educators in Southern California – Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona and 2022 Teacher of the Year Timothy Stiven, where they discussed what dignity meant for them at work in the classroom, the value of community…
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Chicago Tribune: The Families of Those Killed by Police Seek a Path to Justice Through International Law
Tags Share “She called and let me know that she wasn’t coming home that night. I didn’t know that she meant that she was going to be gone forever,” Martinez Sutton tearfully testified in 2015 about the killing of his sister Rekia Boyd by an off-duty police officer. Eight years later, he and his family…
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