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RFK Human Rights Announces Mass Bail Out Action of Hundreds of Incarcerated Women and Youth
The action has attracted over 200 volunteers to free women and young people in New York City who are jailed because they cannot afford to post bail.
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RFK Human Rights, Discovery Education Launch Initiative to Engage Next Generation of Human Rights Defenders
The new initiative, Speak Truth To Power: Raising New Voices In Human Rights, aims to inspire global citizenry in students and teachers to help prevent human rights abuses and violations.
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In Opposition to “California Money Bail Reform Act”
Tags Share As Attorney General in 1964, Robert F. Kennedy pressed Congress to pass bail reform at the federal level, stating: “Every year in this country, thousands of persons are kept in jail for weeks and even months following arrest. They are not yet proven guilty. They may be no more likely to flee than…
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Three Years After Solitary Ban, NYC Youth Remain in Solitary Confinement
Tags Share On January 12, 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made an announcement prohibiting solitary confinement for all those incarcerated 21 and younger at Rikers Island. As of this year, the city has yet to completely execute the ban’s implementation. The Mayor of New York has broken a promise to our youth,…
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2018 RFK Ripple of Hope Award Laureates Announced
President Barack Obama, Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, and Humana CEO Bruce D. Broussard were named this year’s Ripple of Hope Award laureates.
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9th Annual RFK Compass Investor Conference in Hyannis Port
Tags Share Last month we hosted our 9th Annual RFKennedy Compass Investor Conference in Hyannis Port, bringing together over 300 institutional investors, fund managers and thought leaders around the themes of Diversity, Social Investing and Private Equity at the historic Kennedy Compound. Fifty years ago, Bobby Kennedy ran an inspiring and pivotal Presidential campaign that…
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Ethel Kennedy Joins Hunger Strike to Protest Trump’s Immigration Policies
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy’s 90-year-old widow Ethel Kennedy has joined a hunger strike to protest the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies and the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The collective fast, organized by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and several other activist groups, started on Saturday and will last for 24…
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Activists, Celebrities Launch Hunger Strike to End Trump’s Zero Tolerance Policy
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our coalition of partners have launched a 24-day hunger strike aimed at pressuring the Trump administration to end its “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The protest began Saturday in front of a symbolic loaf of bread a few blocks from the federal courthouse in McAllen, Texas, the busiest…
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Kerry Kennedy to Kick-Off Immigration Fast and Prayer Chain
RFK Human Rights and our partners have organized a 24-hour hunger strike and prayer chain in honor of the more than 2,400 children separated from their parents.
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