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Advocacy, Education, and Healing: How My Journey Shapes My Capstone
Tags Share My path into education has always been guided by one core commitment: the belief that Black and Brown youth deserve more than the punitive systems society too often imposes on them. Long before I entered the classroom as an educator, I was deeply engaged in social justice and restorative justice advocacy, working alongside…
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Don’t Pull the Ladder: Ending TPS for Cameroonians Now Creates Risk Without a Plan
Tags Share I’m writing as someone who has lived the story we too often file under a tidy word: migration. But there is a difference between choosing to move and being pushed out by violence, state repression, or fear. While both involve a decision about whether to stay or go, one is deliberate and planned;…
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Time100 Next 2025: Efren Olivares
Writing in TIME Magazine, our president Kerry Kennedy honors Efrén Olivares, VP of Litigation and Legal Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center and one of our partners in the fight for immigrant justice.
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Newsweek: ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the ACLU of Louisiana and the National Immigration Project, recently filed multiple complaints exposing systemic abuse against immigrants at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Drop Off the Grid After Leaving Site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database.…
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Practice Advisory: Challenging Revocation of Orders of Supervision through Habeas Corpus
This advisory and template brief outline arguments to prevent arrest or seek release from detention for a non-citizen with a final order of removal whose order of supervision has been or may be revoked at an ICE check-in.
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USA Today: Stephen Colbert joins former presidents in receiving major honor after CBS cancellation
Stephen Colbert will receive the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for using humor to challenge injustice and promote human rights.
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TheWrap: Stephen Colbert to Receive Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights Center
Stephen Colbert will be honored with the Robert K. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award this December.
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Stephen Colbert to Receive 2025 Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights
Tags Share New York, NY, September 24, 2025 – Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, today announced that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has been named a 2025 Ripple of Hope Award laureate. As one of the most influential satirists of his generation,…
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WIRED: DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly uncovered government data reveals that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been quietly collecting DNA samples from nearly 2,000 U.S. citizens, including minors, and funneling them into the FBI’s criminal DNA database, CODIS
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RFKHR Book Club Discusses Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who is Gone is Here
Tags Share On August 21st, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted its most recent book club with author and journalist Jonathan Blitzer to discuss his Robert F. Kennedy Book Award-winning debut. Everyone Who is Gone is Here tells the epic story of the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, delving into the…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Administration Increasingly Places Immigrants in Solitary Confinement, Report Finds Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people…
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