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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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Mike Brown v. United States: Seeking justice for lethal police violence
This case seeks justice for the extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown and violations of the human rights of Mike and his mother Lezley McSpadden under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
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The Cases of Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd
Tags Share In 2012, Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old Black woman, was killed by an off-duty police officer in Chicago, IL. In 2014, Black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. To this day, their killers have never been held accountable. Now, on the 9-year anniversary of Micheal Brown’s…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center file briefs with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd’s families
Tags Share Washington, D.C., August 9, 2023 – Nine years after Michael Brown’s murder by Ferguson police, attorneys from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University have filed briefs before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requesting a hearing on Brown’s case and the 2012 murder…
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Families of Mike Brown, Rekia Boyd Reach Global Stage of Yearslong Human Rights Battle
Tags Share Earlier this summer, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights worked with the families of Mike Brown and Rekia Boyd to file a merit brief with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The brief is the latest effort for accountability and justice for the Brown and Boyd families following their loved ones’ deaths at the…
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