Peace and Conflict
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Kerry Kennedy and Dick Durbin: Hold Russia accountable for the crime of aggression in Ukraine
Tags Share A full year has passed since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in February 2022. Let us repeat that: a full year. As the rest of the world aged and grew, grappled with technological advances, inflation, record-breaking drought, flooding and political shifts, residents of Ukraine have been unable to escape the single, all-encompassing…
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Western Sahara Deserves a Place in Sports Activism
Tags Share The past few months of African soccer have shown the world that Morocco has no qualms with blurring the lines between politics and soccer—particularly as it pertains to disputes over the self-determination of Western Sahara, a territory Morocco has illegally occupied since 1975, after Spain ended its colonial rule over the Sahrawi-owned area.…
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Peace
Tags Share Excerpts from Mairead Maguire’s remarks made at 2006 Gwangju Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates One of the consequences of 80 years of the Partition of Ireland has been the cutting off of people from each other in the North and South of the country, resulting in lack of communication, trust, and a fear…
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Reconciliation, genocide, and national identity
Tags Share José Ramos-Horta’s interview with Kerry Kennedy I was born into a mixed family, with a Portuguese father who had opposed the Salazar fascist regime in Portugal, and therefore was exiled to East Timor in the thirties, and a mother from East Timor. We grew up in remote a village without electricity, running water,…
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Protection from landmines and non-violence
Tags Share Excerpts from Jody Williams’ 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The desire to ban landmines is not new. In the late 1970s, the International Committee of the Red Cross, along with a handful of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), pressed the world to look at weapons that were particularly injurious and/or indiscriminate. One of the weapons…
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Peace, conflict resolution, and health
Tags Share Excerpts from Jimmy Carter’s 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The scope and character of our Center’s activities are perhaps unique, but in many other ways they are typical of the work being done by many hundreds of non-governmental organizations that strive for human rights and peace. Most Nobel laureates have carried out our…
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Kateryna Yushchenko
Tags Share This fall, we will be hosting a speaker series featuring conversations with world leaders, policy makers, educators, and human rights defenders to help you bring discussions of current human rights issues into your classroom. Each live webinar will be moderated by a student from one of our partner schools. Your students will also…
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Fall 2022 Defender Speaker Series: Introductory Lesson for Emir Suljagić
In the face of increasing religious and ethnic tensions around the world, the lessons learned from Srebrenica are especially relevant.
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Panel raises alarm over alleged Russian abuse of Ukrainian women and children
Tags Share Concerns over egregious human rights abuses by Russian troops targeted at Ukrainian women and children took center stage at a high-profile panel discussion convened by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights on Wednesday April 20. The conversation, moderated by RFKHR President Kerry Kennedy, featured former President of Latvia,…
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On the mindless menace of violence
Tags Share This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event to today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives. It is not…
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“Face the Nation” interview on Vietnam
Share I have found it, over the period of the last eighteen months particularly, very difficult to talk about some of the matters without getting involved in personalities. When I criticized the war in Vietnam in a major speech back in February 1966, after the initial stories, it was placed purely…on the basis of a…
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Putin accountability panel focuses on concrete actions for International Criminal Court, using oligarch assets
Tags Share The so-called “de-Putinfication” of Russia. Closure. Victory. All of these aims for Ukraine – and more – were discussed Easter Monday morning by a high-profile panel convened by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK, and the United States Institute of Peace. The discussion,…
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