Peace and Conflict
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Michael Brown’s mom pushes for justice for her son in public hearing The mother of Michael Brown — who was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer in 2014 sparking protests around the county — gave testimony to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) to review the case of her son’s killing in…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Kenya’s President Says He Won’t Sign a Finance Bill That Led Protesters to Storm the Parliament Kenya’s president said Wednesday he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament the previous day, leaving several people killed as police opened fire. It was the…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Spying, Hacking and Intimidation: Israel’s Nine-Year ‘War’ on the ICC Exposed When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court…
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Biden Should Oppose US Sanctions on ICC
Tags Share (Washington, DC) – US President Joe Biden should oppose threats and calls for punitive actions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), 121 human rights and civil society groups said today in a letter to President Biden. On May 20, 2024, the court’s prosecutor announced that he was seeking arrest warrants for three leaders of Hamas and two senior Israeli officials.…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Global: New technology and AI used at borders increases inequalities and undermines human rights of migrants In a new research briefing released today, Amnesty International documents extensively the ways in which technology contributes to the growing trend of human rights violations at borders and urges that states stop using such technologies until they…
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Polit Waar
In 2013, only two years after its independence, the promising future of the youngest country in Africa, the Republic of South Sudan, was compromised by political crises, struggles, and conflicts. Five years later, the country emerged from its civil war and embarked on the pathway of peace, reconciliation, and nation-building. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights…
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Out of sight, out of mind: How new film ‘The Zone Of Interest’ challenges all of us to be vigilant in protecting and defending human rights
Tags Share This year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document outlining the basic fundamental rights we have because we are human. A document drafted soon after WWII with the hope and desire that the atrocities witnessed would happen “never again.” An aspirational document proclaiming in the first…
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Speech at Idaho State University
We must realize that the system from which we have sent a disproportionate number of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Indians to fight in Vietnam is a faulty one.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
Surely the world has seen enough, in the last forty years of violence and hatred. Surely we have seen enough of the attempt to justify present injustice by past slights, or to punish the unjust by making the world more unjust.
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Address at the University of California, Berkeley Campus
The central disease of violence is what it does to all of us— to those who engage in it as much as to those who are its victims.
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Speech in Chicago
I believe that, as long as the instruments of peace are available, war is madness. Government must be strong wherever madness threatens the peace.
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