Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center
@kennedyhrc.bsky.social
Exposing injustice and championing human rights, inspired by the legacy of Sen. Robert and Ethel Kennedy. Not Affiliated with RFK Jr.
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(1/2) What a night! Our heartfelt congratulations to this year’s #RippleofHope laureates: Stephen Colbert, Magic Johnson, @darrencwalker.bsky.social, and Martin Cabrera, Jr. Our laureates’ courage remind us that standing up for human rights is now more important than ever before.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
(1/2) What a night! Our heartfelt congratulations to this year’s #RippleofHope laureates: Stephen Colbert, Magic Johnson, @darrencwalker.bsky.social, and Martin Cabrera, Jr. Our laureates’ courage remind us that standing up for human rights is now more important than ever before.
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(2/2) In these divided times, I am inspired to keep fighting for justice and equality, just as Daddy and Mum always taught me. Today, as we embrace our new name, the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, we carry forward their legacy and continue the work they started.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
(2/2) In these divided times, I am inspired to keep fighting for justice and equality, just as Daddy and Mum always taught me. Today, as we embrace our new name, the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, we carry forward their legacy and continue the work they started.
(1/2) We’re thrilled to share that starting today, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center.
December 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
(1/2) We’re thrilled to share that starting today, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center.
(1/2) BREAKING: After six decades as “America’s Peacemaker,” the DOJ has gutted the Community Relations Service (CRS), in direct contradiction to Congressional direction and without legal authority.
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
(1/2) BREAKING: After six decades as “America’s Peacemaker,” the DOJ has gutted the Community Relations Service (CRS), in direct contradiction to Congressional direction and without legal authority.
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(1/4) Human rights defenders around the world risk their lives to protect the dignity & freedom of others. Today, on Intl. Human Rights Defenders Day, we honor their courage and thank them for their sacrifices.
As we look to Human Rights Day tomorrow, I'm reflecting on the legacy of my parents.
As we look to Human Rights Day tomorrow, I'm reflecting on the legacy of my parents.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(1/4) Human rights defenders around the world risk their lives to protect the dignity & freedom of others. Today, on Intl. Human Rights Defenders Day, we honor their courage and thank them for their sacrifices.
As we look to Human Rights Day tomorrow, I'm reflecting on the legacy of my parents.
As we look to Human Rights Day tomorrow, I'm reflecting on the legacy of my parents.
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(2/4) My father devoted his life to ensuring that all people are treated with dignity and respect, and my mother taught me that compassion must always be matched with action.Their example continues to guide me and the work we do at @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social every day.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(2/4) My father devoted his life to ensuring that all people are treated with dignity and respect, and my mother taught me that compassion must always be matched with action.Their example continues to guide me and the work we do at @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social every day.
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(3/4) As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said at the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(3/4) As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said at the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.”
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(4/4) It is in these small places, through the courage and dedication of human rights defenders, that the promise of the UDHR truly comes to life.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(4/4) It is in these small places, through the courage and dedication of human rights defenders, that the promise of the UDHR truly comes to life.
REMINDER: There is still time to nominate a human rights defender or organization whose work you believe is worthy of recognition for our 2026 Human Rights Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 15, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
🔗 Nomination from: rfkhro.org/47YPNfk
🗓️ Deadline: December 15, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
🔗 Nomination from: rfkhro.org/47YPNfk
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
REMINDER: There is still time to nominate a human rights defender or organization whose work you believe is worthy of recognition for our 2026 Human Rights Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 15, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
🔗 Nomination from: rfkhro.org/47YPNfk
🗓️ Deadline: December 15, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
🔗 Nomination from: rfkhro.org/47YPNfk
(1/2) 2025 RFKHR wrapped is here! This work would not be possible with your support! 🫵🏼
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
(1/2) 2025 RFKHR wrapped is here! This work would not be possible with your support! 🫵🏼
(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered.
Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE
Until last year, Congress required reports on the pregnant, postpartum or nursing women in ICE custody, including ‘detailed justification’ for their detention. This requirement no longer exists, Kelly...
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
(1/4) ICE detention has become a black box. Oversight has been gutted. Families are being separated. Pregnant and postpartum women report starving in custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, and their pleas for help going unanswered.
(1/3) The federal watchdog system inside DHS that oversees civil rights violations complaints, including in immigration detention, has been gutted. Nearly every oversight official has been fired. And hundreds of investigations are now stalled or missing.
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
(1/3) The federal watchdog system inside DHS that oversees civil rights violations complaints, including in immigration detention, has been gutted. Nearly every oversight official has been fired. And hundreds of investigations are now stalled or missing.
(1/2) Only ✌🏼 days left to support our #GivingTuesday campaign!
Your donation helps our team:
➡️ Guarantee that everyone in the U.S. is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenge police militarization & the cruelty embedded in the U.S.’ profit-driven criminal legal system.
Your donation helps our team:
➡️ Guarantee that everyone in the U.S. is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenge police militarization & the cruelty embedded in the U.S.’ profit-driven criminal legal system.
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
(1/2) Only ✌🏼 days left to support our #GivingTuesday campaign!
Your donation helps our team:
➡️ Guarantee that everyone in the U.S. is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenge police militarization & the cruelty embedded in the U.S.’ profit-driven criminal legal system.
Your donation helps our team:
➡️ Guarantee that everyone in the U.S. is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenge police militarization & the cruelty embedded in the U.S.’ profit-driven criminal legal system.
(1/2) Head into the weekend by making an impact! Over her 96 years, Mrs. Kennedy was a ceaseless champion for justice. She believed that, “For anyone to achieve something, he must show a little courage. You’re only on this earth once. You must give it all you’ve got.”
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
(1/2) Head into the weekend by making an impact! Over her 96 years, Mrs. Kennedy was a ceaseless champion for justice. She believed that, “For anyone to achieve something, he must show a little courage. You’re only on this earth once. You must give it all you’ve got.”
From all of us at RFK Human Rights, thank you for supporting our work! If you donate to our #GivingTuesday campaign before midnight, your gift will be matched 2X.
💌 Give thanks this Thanksgiving: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
💌 Give thanks this Thanksgiving: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
From all of us at RFK Human Rights, thank you for supporting our work! If you donate to our #GivingTuesday campaign before midnight, your gift will be matched 2X.
💌 Give thanks this Thanksgiving: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
💌 Give thanks this Thanksgiving: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
Give thanks this Thanksgiving! With one week left in our #GivingTuesday campaign, there’s still time to make a difference. Every gift helps us carry forth Senator Kennedy’s and Mrs. Kennedy’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
💌 Give here: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
💌 Give here: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Give thanks this Thanksgiving! With one week left in our #GivingTuesday campaign, there’s still time to make a difference. Every gift helps us carry forth Senator Kennedy’s and Mrs. Kennedy’s vision of a more just and peaceful world.
💌 Give here: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
💌 Give here: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
Will you join us to #OrangeTheWorld? Support our work: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
And tag us in your photos if you're joining the movement!
And tag us in your photos if you're joining the movement!
(1/2) From Juárez to Louisiana to San Pedro Sula, @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social is fighting for truth, justice, and accountability for survivors of gender-based violence and their families. Will you stand with us?
November 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Will you join us to #OrangeTheWorld? Support our work: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
And tag us in your photos if you're joining the movement!
And tag us in your photos if you're joining the movement!
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(2/2) Read my letter ⬇️. Support our work: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
And tag us in your photos if you’re joining the movement to #OrangeTheWorld!
And tag us in your photos if you’re joining the movement to #OrangeTheWorld!
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
(2/2) Read my letter ⬇️. Support our work: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA
And tag us in your photos if you’re joining the movement to #OrangeTheWorld!
And tag us in your photos if you’re joining the movement to #OrangeTheWorld!
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(1/4) The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(1/4) The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
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(2/4) At the same time, Pres. Trump is sanctioning ICC judges, prosecutors, and human rights advocates who bring forward evidence of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
How sanctions imposed by Trump are taking a toll on the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court, or ICC, only intervenes when national courts can't or won't prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity. But after the Trump administration sanctioned ...
www.pbs.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(2/4) At the same time, Pres. Trump is sanctioning ICC judges, prosecutors, and human rights advocates who bring forward evidence of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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(3/4) We're witnessing the weaponization of a once useful system the US helped build. The State Dept's Human Rights Reports are being stripped of categories documenting attacks on peaceful assembly in China, torturous prisons in El Salvador, among others, & will be used as harassment tools instead.
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(3/4) We're witnessing the weaponization of a once useful system the US helped build. The State Dept's Human Rights Reports are being stripped of categories documenting attacks on peaceful assembly in China, torturous prisons in El Salvador, among others, & will be used as harassment tools instead.
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(4/4) Human rights are universal. They are not tools for political convenience. They do not bend to ideology. And no administration can claim that equality, safety, and dignity are anything but fundamental rights. The world is watching. And history will remember where we stood.
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(4/4) Human rights are universal. They are not tools for political convenience. They do not bend to ideology. And no administration can claim that equality, safety, and dignity are anything but fundamental rights. The world is watching. And history will remember where we stood.
(1/3) Start the weekend by making an impact! This #GivingTuesday, your donation helps support our work on:
➡️ Guaranteeing that everyone in the US is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenging police militarization & extrajudicial killings.
➡️ Guaranteeing that everyone in the US is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenging police militarization & extrajudicial killings.
November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(1/3) Start the weekend by making an impact! This #GivingTuesday, your donation helps support our work on:
➡️ Guaranteeing that everyone in the US is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenging police militarization & extrajudicial killings.
➡️ Guaranteeing that everyone in the US is afforded due process & freedom from arbitrary detention.
➡️ Challenging police militarization & extrajudicial killings.
🗣️ Happening TODAY at 2:00pm ET! Just one day after Senator Kennedy’s centennial birthday, @kerrykennedy.bsky.social and Chris Matthews sit down to discuss Chris’s book, Lessons from Bobby, and the legacy that continues to inspire.
🔗 Have you registered? RSVP here: rfkhro.org/4o2aHQK
🔗 Have you registered? RSVP here: rfkhro.org/4o2aHQK
(1/2) Please join me for a very special @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social Book Club on Friday, Nov. 21 at 2 PM ET, featuring my friend and one of America’s most insightful political voices, Chris Matthews, as we discuss his book Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🗣️ Happening TODAY at 2:00pm ET! Just one day after Senator Kennedy’s centennial birthday, @kerrykennedy.bsky.social and Chris Matthews sit down to discuss Chris’s book, Lessons from Bobby, and the legacy that continues to inspire.
🔗 Have you registered? RSVP here: rfkhro.org/4o2aHQK
🔗 Have you registered? RSVP here: rfkhro.org/4o2aHQK
(1/3) In honor of Senator Kennedy’s 100th birthday, we’re kicking off our #GivingTuesday campaign early. As Senator Kennedy once said, “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better.”
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
(1/3) In honor of Senator Kennedy’s 100th birthday, we’re kicking off our #GivingTuesday campaign early. As Senator Kennedy once said, “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to make things better.”