United States
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Renewing our commitment to civil rights and voting rights
Tags Share By Kerry Kennedy and Martin Luther King III As violence and racism – evidenced by the bomb threats received last month at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country – continue unabated, our frustration and anger at the continued ugliness of the “other America” King described plaguing Black and Brown Americans has…
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Statement by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy on the Supreme Court Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Tags Share New York – Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the first former public defender and Black woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. As a human rights organization dedicated to a more just and equal world, we welcome the expanded perspectives that greater professional and personal diversity can bring to the Court. However,…
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Alabama the frontline of a national movement for investors to take stance and no longer invest in the carceral state
One of sixteen states to outline their plans to use American Rescue Plan funds for prison construction or expansion, Alabama has become the frontline of a national movement for investors to take a firm stance that they will no longer invest in the carceral state.
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Calls on the Biden Administration to Immediately Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon
Tags Share Today, on the National Black Immigrant Advocacy Day of Action, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands alongside our partners at Cameroon Advocacy Network (CAN) to urge President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon. “The Biden…
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With “a different kind of warfare” on the rise, young people can prepare by embracing technology and education
Tags Share Kateryna Yushchenko, former first lady of Ukraine, urged young people to speak truth to power in the face of injustice and create a world where they can’t be influenced by disinformation. “Speak out to your elected representatives. Speak out to the media when you see something that’s very unfair,” she said on February…
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Young People Fighting Racism in the Justice System
Tags Share Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1944, the…
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Senate must address racial discrimination in voting
Voters of color are facing the greatest threat to voting rights since Jim Crow, 54 civil rights organizations have said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer—adding that Congress must address the discriminatory barriers to the ballot that prevent votes from being cast.
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Honor, don’t denigrate, the dignity of front-line workers
Tags Share New York’s new mayor has recently twice diminished the dignity of workers who for years now have been on the front lines and otherwise lauded — rightly so – as essential. Arguing that businesses need to remain open so service establishments can be patronized, the Mayor said, “My low-skilled workers, my cooks, my…
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Young Leader Alexa Browning talks about civic engagement, criminal justice reform, and her advice to other youth organizers
Tags Share This world, Robert F. Kennedy said, “demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.” That’s why Robert F. Kennedy Human…
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RFK Compass Investors Applauds NY State Common Retirement Fund for Supporting Ending the Subminimum Wage
Tags Share At an October 19 investor and legislator briefing co-hosted by RFK Compass Investors in New York City, Tom DiNapoli, New York State comptroller, shared the actions the New York State Common Retirement Fund is taking to end the subminimum wage as part of a coalition effort calling for One Fair Wage. The fund…
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Key takeaways from our Compass Investors fall summit
Tags Share Fair wages: On the precipice of historic change Restaurant workers who have suffered for decades under the federal subminimum wage of $2.13 per hour may be about to get some relief. Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, told summit attendees that “we’re on the precipice of historic change” when it comes to…
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Youth Advisory Board, Russian activist team up to combat gender-based violence
Tags Share In 2012, Rashida Manjoo, then the UN special rapporteur on violence against women, called for a new global framework to address violence against women. Activists around the world heard this call and formed Every Woman Treaty, a unique and diverse coalition of scholars, lawyers, and frontline practitioners who are working to promote ratification…
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