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Black Immigrant Organizations File FOIA Lawsuit Demanding Transparency on the Abuse of Haitians in Del Rio Last Year
Tags Share NEW YORK, NY, September 30, 2022 —Today, Black-led immigrant justice organizations Haitian Bridge Alliance, UndocuBlack Network, and African Communities Together filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking records from the U.S. government on the abuse of Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, TX last…
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Gov. Newsom, understand the horrors of solitary as you consider the Mandela Act
Tags Share As Gov. Gavin Newsom considers signing the Mandela Act to limit solitary confinement in California, he needs to understand its true horrors. Today I write this as a rising immigration attorney and legal fellow with national advocacy organization Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. But just four short years ago, I was an asylum…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Hosts 33rd Annual Golf Tournament in Hyannis Port
Tags Share NEW YORK, September 29, 2022 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will be hosting its 33rd annual golf tournament on Friday, October 14, at the Hyannisport Club in Hyannis Port, Mass. Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, will be joined by a number of special guests from the worlds of…
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Good Trouble: What John Lewis’ life and legacy means for young leaders
Tags Share For myself, and for many, many members of the Kennedy family, John Lewis was a continual and steady presence in our lives. He was a father figure to us, he shared a special bond with my mother, Ethel, and he was a guiding force in helping Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights become the…
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DeSantis could unwittingly have paved way for interstate collaboration on asylum seekers
Tags Share Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest piece of political theater has unwittingly created a path for leaders to work together on a humane response to the arrival of asylum-seekers in our country. DeSantis set aside $12 million to charter private planes to fly asylum-seekers to remote Northeast towns and now faces a federal class…
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DeSantis could unwittingly have paved way for interstate collaboration on asylum seekers
Tags Share Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest piece of political theater has unwittingly created a path for leaders to work together on a humane response to the arrival of asylum-seekers in our country. DeSantis set aside $12 million to charter private planes to fly asylum-seekers to remote Northeast towns and now faces a federal class…
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On Anniversary of Del Rio Disaster, Immigration Advocates Demand End to Haitian Removals
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 15th, 2022 Contact: Alexandra Gulden alexandra@quixote.org Washington DC—On the one-year anniversary of the human rights disaster in Del Rio, Texas, the Quixote Center and 19 organizational co-sponsors are delivering a petition to the White House calling on the Biden administration to halt all removals of Haitian migrants, including interdictions…
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Achieving Profit and Impact: Can Private Equity Do Both?
Tags Share Many Americans are skeptical that it’s possible to achieve both of those goals together. In a 2017 survey of people’s perceptions of profitability and overall societal contribution of 40 familiar Fortune 500 firms, participants strongly associated profit with negative societal value. That is, most people saw profit as a zero-sum game, the study’s…
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Educator spotlight: Mr Albert Celis on using film to empower his students
Tags Share Next year’s STTP Video Contest is now accepting submissions! Click here for guidelines and resources, and click here to submit your video by April 26, 2023. Last school year was a difficult chapter for many students, parents, and teachers: COVID-19 brought unprecedented challenges to education and our society. Students returned to the classroom…
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Returning to school when ‘education is not neutral’: today’s challenges in educating the next generation
Tags Share Across the country, teachers and staff members are returning to schools while still trying to manage the aftermath of the pandemic, virtual learning, volatile political rhetoric directed at education and educators, and school shootings. As teachers, you are navigating a difficult – and often volatile – educational landscape, particularly when bringing critical thinking,…
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Centering classroom dialogue on common truths through human rights education
Tags Share Article written by Jonathan Coulombe, Upper School Dean of Students at the King School in Stamford, CT. Several years ago, we struggled to engage our student body at King School around issues of importance in their world. Too often we, as adults, were designing the conversations and failed to gain traction with helping…
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