United States
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Labor Department’s Rule on ESG Investing Creates a New Hurdle for Retirees
A crucial change to how private pension plans operate could have profound consequences for your 401(k).
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Racial Equity Investing Helps Bridge Wealth Gap
Tags Share Institutional investors who are troubled by the economic disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. don’t have to settle for the status quo. They can take action by investing their portfolios in ways that help undo those structural inequities. This call to action was one of the solutions institutional investors offered…
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Private Equity Firms Reevaluate Priorities
Tags Share Private equity executives who gathered at the RFK Compass Investor Virtual Summit in October described a year of challenges and opportunities that have inspired them to reflect on and reevaluate their priorities. On the bright side, private equity firms’ worst-case scenarios did not come to fruition, and many of their portfolio companies weathered…
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Are You Enabling Surveillance Capitalism in Your Portfolio?
Tags Share From the moment you wake up in the morning until you go to bed at night, companies of all sorts are looking to collect and monetize information about you, ranging from your whereabouts to your shopping behavior to your email habits. Welcome to the world of surveillance capitalism. It’s a term every investor…
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U.S. Advocates Fear Creation of a Hierarchy of Human Rights
Tags Share As the Trump administration tries to further limit the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens, advocates are particularly concerned by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s controversial Commission on Unalienable Rights, which would relegate some rights, including marriage equality and abortion, to the status of “political controversies” or “preferences.” While a new administration could disregard…
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Our Civic Duties Don’t End On Election Day
We must push our ideas of civic responsibility past the ballot by remaining informed and supporting marginalized groups.
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Teen Who Spent 40 Days in Adult Prison Savors Second Chance
Tags Share In 2018, RFK Human Rights bailed out 16-year-old Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes from adult prison. Now, her charges have finally been dropped and she has a clean slate. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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“Boys State” Panel Holds Up Mirror to Country’s Division
Tags Share In the midst of an election season marked by historic rancor and voter disenfranchisement, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights offered a look behind the scenes of a political world sometimes forgotten these days—a high-energy, values-driven electoral process spearheaded by young people. Boys State is a documentary about the Texas summer program that educates…
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Groups Unite to Post Millions of Dollars in Bonds to Free Immigrants
Tags Share For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network, Detention Watch Network, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, have begun posting $3 million in bond to…
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Standing Up Against the “Shut Up and Work” Workplace
Employees shouldn’t have to ignore external events or put their personal lives on hold in the name of profits.
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RFK Human Rights Calls for Californians to Oppose Prop 25
The injustice of money bail is real but Prop 25 isn’t the answer. Californians, please vote NO on Prop 25.
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Make Black and Brown Queer Votes Matter
RFK Young Leaders are empowering first-time voters of color to make their ballots count.
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