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Russell Reynolds Associates: Jeffrey Siminoff On The Chief Diversity Officer Landscape Worldwide
As part of a new Russell Reynolds Associates report surveying the global state of chief diversity officers, Senior Vice President of Workplace Dignity Jeffrey Siminoff shares reflections on the CDO landscape against the backdrop of increasing challenges to diversity equity and inclusion initiatives. With DE&I sitting at the core of what dignity-centered workplaces hope to…
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Russell Reynolds Associates: Jeffrey Siminoff On The Chief Diversity Officer Landscape Worldwide
Tags Share As part of a new Russell Reynolds Associates report surveying the global state of chief diversity officers, Senior Vice President of Workplace Dignity Jeffrey Siminoff shares reflections on the CDO landscape against the backdrop of increasing challenges to diversity equity and inclusion initiatives. With DE&I sitting at the core of what dignity-centered workplaces…
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In Memoriam: Alicia Shepard
Tags Share Our condolences go out to Alicia Shepard’s family and friends, especially her husband David and her son Cutter. Lisa was a long time supporter of the RFK Journalism Awards and served many years on the RFKJournalism Committee. She was working on this year’s awards right up until shortly before her death. Reporter, professor,…
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‘They are aligned and joined forever’: A Harvard Club conversation on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and RFK
Tags Share Sit-ins at Woolworths in the south. The murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and others. How does the past inform the way we approach civil rights today? Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Dr. Russell Wigginton, president of the National Civil Rights Museum, took on these topics and more…
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Student Voices Engaged for Equity
Tags Share While the longstanding impacts of racism permeate our society, discussions of race are largely absent from much of the public school curriculum and have become contentious in today’s educational environment. It’s left many educators searching for strategies to start constructive and open dialogue about race in the classroom. On March 10, we hosted…
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How The Piney Woods School Honors Local Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share “They damaged my leg. I said they damaged my leg. But I still walked in my purpose.” As she raised her voice to emphasize her point, Takira Adams, a freshman at The Piney Woods School, fully and powerfully embodied the spirit of human rights defender Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader in the Civil…
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Fannie Lou Hamer: An Activist for Civil Rights and Women’s Rights
Tags Share Fannie Lou Hamer, born in 1917, was the 20th child of two Mississippi sharecroppers. Hamer was just 6 when she began working in the plantation fields with her family; she dropped out of school at 12 to work full-time. After marrying Perry “Pap” Hammer in the early 1940s, she went for what she…
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy, president, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, regarding the presidential run of Bobby Kennedy Jr.
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is a nonprofit organization grounded in the legacy and transformative leadership of my father. We hold governments accountable, engage businesses to align with human rights norms and train the next generation of leaders to become human rights defenders in their own right. I love my brother Bobby, but…
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Immigrants’ Rights and Human Rights Organizations File Civil Rights Complaint Exposing Torture, Sexual Abuse, and Medical Neglect of a Hunger Striker at a Louisiana ICE Detention Center
Tags Share Washington, D.C., March 30, 2023 – Yesterday, a group of legal and community organizations including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Freedom for Immigrants, ACLU-LA, Southern Poverty Law Center, Mujeres Luchadoras, Home is Here NOLA, and Louisiana AID filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties…
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Human Rights Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Withdraw Proposed Regulations that Would Effectively Ban Black Asylum Seekers
Tags Share Washington, D.C., March 28, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the Black Immigrant Bail Fund, Cameroon Advocacy Network, and Haitian Bridge Alliance, strongly opposes a new regulatory framework that would all but ban asylum for Black asylum seekers. On March 27, 2023, the human rights organizations submitted a public comment to…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announces three new board members
Tags Share NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. With backgrounds spanning marketing, law, finance, and venture capital, the new members bring decades of experience in their respective fields and a deep commitment to social justice.…
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Workplace diversity is under attack: Here’s how employers should respond
Tags Share By Jeffrey Siminoff. Read the original article in Quartz here. Texas governor Greg Abbott’s chief of staff recently issued a memo attacking diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the workplace (and offices that support them) as problematic and discriminatory against unnamed groups. This was on the back of Florida’s efforts, blocked for…
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