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Pictured here: (top) Robert Kennedy and farmworkers’ activist Cesar Chavez, 1968; (bottom) Farmworkers’ activist and Kerry Kennedy, 2012 WHO WAS THERE: LETTER FROM THE RFK CENTER IN 2012 KERRY KENNEDY

Dear Friends, HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA, Farmworkers Activist In 2013, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights will mark the PRESIDENTS JIMMY CARTER, MIKHAIL LIBRADA PAZ named 45th anniversary of its founding, making us one of the longest running human rights GORBACHEV, LECH WALESA and W.F. DE the 2012 RFK Human organizations in the world. KLERK, spoke at the RFK Center-led World Summit Rights Award Laureate In the lead-up to this milestone, 2012 was a year of growth, achievement, and long of Nobel Peace Laureates (SEE PAGE 11-12) (SEE PAGE 5) range vision. Through RFK Partners for Human Rights, we successfully beat back a bill in the Ugandan Parliament that would have levied the death penalty against sexual minorities, and we partnered with human rights defenders working on the SANTIAGO CANTON, former DEBORAH TEMKIN, who previously ground for freedom of speech in Zimbabwe, self-determination in Western Sahara, Executive Secretary of the Inter- indigenous rights in Mexico, and beyond. Through RFK Speak Truth To Power, we led the Obama Administration’s brought human rights education to more than one million students around the American Commission on Human efforts on bullying, named RFK world, from Cambodia to California, and from pre-school to law school. Through Rights, named Director of RFK Project SEATBELT Manager RFK Compass, we convened an ongoing dialogue on fiduciary responsibility with Partners for Human Rights (SEE PAGE 6) (SEE PAGE 7) regards to human rights, labor issues, and corporate governance with the largest institutional investors in the world.

In Florence, Italy, RFK Europe provided human rights education programs to schools THE STUDENTS Former Congressmen DICK GEPHARDT and DENNIS across the continent, and is in the final stages of launching the RFK Europe Training OF THE KUCINICH, former NPR President and RFK press Institute, a global forum for training human rights activists and grassroots organizations. SARATOGA secretary FRANK MANKIEWICZ, and polling expert The RFK Center was founded in 1968 by Robert Kennedy’s family and friends to BOCES career JOHN ZOGBY served as election commentators for the carry forward his unfinished work. Each of these core program areas are linked by a RFK Europe US Elections watch (SEE PAGE 14) common commitment to his quest, “to tame the savageness of man and make gentle and technical the life of this world.” high school won the first annual The faith and commitment of our supporters is what makes all of this possible. I am NURSE proud to present to you the 2012 Annual Report of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Student Speak KATHRYN JOHN ZURICK, OKARI used Justice and Human Rights. Truth To Power SIKKINK named long-time the RFK Health Video Contest at 2012 RFK Book RFK Center eVillages app the Tribeca Film Award Winner consultant, to save the life (SEE PAGE 15) named Chief Festival (SEE PAGE 7) Warmly, Operating of a newborn in Lwala, Kenya Kerry Kennedy Officer President (SEE PAGE 16) PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL, former Secretary of State for Democracy, MELANIE GRIFFITH, ANTONIO BANDERAS, MARTIN SHEEN, IN 2013, THE RFK CENTER WELCOMES Human Rights, and Labor, MICHAEL ROBERT SMITH AS BOARD CHAIR AND THANKS POSNER, and many more spoke at MARCIA GAY-HARDEN, and OUTGOING CHAIR ORIN KRAMER FOR THREE YEARS RFK Compass conferences ALEXIS BLEDEL performed the OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP. (SEE PAGE 9-10) Speak Truth To Power play

1 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 2 “THOSE WITH THE COURAGE TO ENTER THE MORAL CONFLICT WILL FIND THEMSELVES WITH HUMAN RIGHTS COMPANIONS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE.” AROUND THE WORLD –Robert F. Kennedy, 1966

LIBRADA PAZ | U.S.A. 2012 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATE

Carrying forward Robert Kennedy’s work with Cesar Chavez to extend basic human rights and labor rights to America’s farm and migrant workers | SWEDEN 2011 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATE

Protecting LGBTI rights and promoting HIV/AIDS awareness at a time when several African nations are considering laws against sexual minorities

CANADA ROMANIA

UNITED STATES ITALY

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NEPAL HONG KONG HAITI

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ABEL BARRERA HERNÁNDEZ | MEXICO 2010 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATE CAMBODIA

Fighting for the full spectrum of human rights of indigenous and rural communities and demanding protection of human RWANDA rights defenders in the region

MAGODONGA MAHLANGU AND WOMEN OF ZIMBABWE ARISE (WOZA) | ZIMBABWE 2009 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATE

Advocating for political and social change in Zimbabwe, empowering women, and striving for universal education SOUTH AFRICA

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RFK Human Rights Defenders | WESTERN SAHARA 2008 RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATE Countries where the Speak Truth To Power Human Rights Curriculum is Promoting the civil and political rights of the Sahrawi taught people of Western Sahara, including freedom of speech and assembly and the right to self-determination

3 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 4 “THE RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD GIVES ME COURAGE TO CONTINUE DOING THE WORK I’M DOING. IT SENDS OUT A MESSAGE, NOT ONLY TO MY HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FIELD COUNTRY BUT TO OTHER COUNTRIES THAT CRIMINALIZE HOMOSEXUALITY.” –Frank Mugisha, Uganda RFK PARTNERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Working with individuals and organizations worldwide to fight discrimination and build a more just and peaceful world.

WORKING HAND-IN- HAND WITH HUMAN Our Newest Partnership RIGHTS DEFENDERS LIBRADA PAZ (USA) to Leverage their Work Globally

The RFK Center presented the 2012 RFK Human • When the Ugandan Parliament threatened to pass Rights Award to New Yorker Librada Paz, a former sweeping anti-homosexuality legislation that would farmworker turned activist who has followed in the levy the death penalty against the LGBTI community, footsteps of Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez as the RFK Center fronted a global campaign and led a leader in the farmworkers’ labor rights struggle. an international delegation to stop the bill from Forty-five years since RFK turned America’s attention coming to a vote, connecting 2011 RFK Laureate to farm and migrant workers’ rights by breaking fast Frank Mugisha with nearly 50 prominent American alongside Chavez, the RFK Center and Librada Paz Christian leaders and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to are partnering to pass the Farmworkers’ Fair Labor galvanize support. Practices Act. • When the UN failed to report on human rights as New York’s 60,000 farmworkers live under the cruel part of the peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, vestiges of Jim Crow, denied a day of rest each week, the RFK Center led an international delegation overtime pay, collective bargaining rights, disability beyond Morocco’s militarized border, spoke to insurance, and a safe and sanitary work environment. those living in Western Sahara and the Algerian refugee camps firsthand, and published a landmark report that shed light on 30 years of human rights violations by Moroccan security forces against the “PAZ IS LIVING PROOF OF THOSE Sahrawi people. IMMORTAL WORDS KENNEDY AND • When the Inter-American Commission on Human CHAVEZ ONCE CHANTED TOGETHER Rights granted a public hearing on violations against HUMAN RIGHTS IN CALIFORNIA: SI SE PUEDE. migrant and farmworker in the U.S., the RFK Center IN THE COURT SANTIAGO YES, WE CAN.” brought its experts—Librada Paz of New York International Strategic CANTON –New York Daily News and Lucas Benitez of Florida—to testify about the violence, discrimination, and abuse that their clients Litigation Unit Joins the RFK Center face, from the dairy farms of Albany to the tomato fields of Immokalee. This year, RFK Partners for Human Rights launched In 2012, the RFK Center welcomed Santiago Canton a strategic litigation unit, which will bring high as Director of RFK Partners for Human Rights. Mr. • When 2009 Laureate Magodonga Mahlangu impact human rights cases before regional Canton brings decades of experience as a leading and other political activists from Women of mechanisms and domestic courts. This new arm of voice in global human rights and international law, Zimbabwe Arise were arbitrarily detained by local the PHR program will work alongside the advocacy and comes to RFK Center after 11 years as Executive police, the RFK Center exposed rising violence team to spur legal and governmental change Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on and suppression against Zimbabwe’s peaceful in defense of human rights, including the 2013 Human Rights. protesters as the nation approached its first campaign for New York State’s Farmworkers’ Fair election since the chaotic 2008 vote. Labor Practices Act.

5 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 6 “REFLECTING RFK’S DEEP PASSION AND RELENTLESS DRIVE TOWARD DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, STTP PROFOUNDLY TRANSFORMS HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CLASSROOM STUDENTS’ VIEW OF THE WORLD AND INSPIRES THEM TOWARDS SOCIAL ACTIVISM. SIMPLY STATED, IT CHANGES LIVES! ” RFK SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER –Joanne Marien, former Superintendent, Somers Central School District, New York

Human rights education for more than half a million students a year, from pre-school to law school, from Cambodia, to Calabria, to California.

First Annual STTP VIDEO CONTEST

In 2012, the RFK Center welcomed Dr. Deborah In 2012, the RFK Center partnered with the New Temkin—who formerly headed the Obama York State United Teachers to launch a student administration’s efforts on bullying prevention—to video contest challenging young people to study design and lead a bullying prevention program the Speak Truth To Power human rights curriculum Young monks in Cambodia, many of whom survived genocide by the Khmer Rouge, STTP Director John Heffernan with STTP Defender Archbishop learn about global human rights from the Speak Truth To Power school curriculum Desmond Tutu in Sweden. building upon Speak Truth To Power’s efforts to help and produce a 3-to-6 minute video on a human young people identify as human rights defenders. rights defender who inspires them. The first The new initiative uniquely focuses on creating the annual award went to the BOCES Technical High environments that prevent bullying before it starts. School near Albany, New York, whose video on environmentalist, political activist, and Green Belt In 2012, the RFK Speak Truth To Developed in partnership with the Harvard Graduate Movement founder Wangari Maathai inspired School of Education’s Making Caring Common them to launch a recycling program in their school. Power human rights curriculum... Project, and with support from Chrysler Group Students gathered discarded plastic bags destined • Launched in Sweden and Canada, which joined and the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, RFK Project for a landfill and crocheted them into handbags One Curriculum the global STTP network alongside Cambodia, SEATBELT (Safe Environments Achieved Through sold to benefit charity. Haiti, Hong Kong, Italy, Nepal, Nicaragua, Bullying prevention, Engagement, Leadership, & COUNTLESS Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, and the United Teaching respect) provides research-based resources The students were then invited to the 2012 Tribeca LESSONS States, and added the cities , Illinois; Los for parents, educators, and community members Film Festival where their Speak Truth To Power Angeles, California; and Bucyrus, Ohio to the U.S. to effectively prevent bullying. The initiative will video was screened to Festival audiences. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. What makes network of schools launch in June 2013 at www.projectseatbelt.org with a the STTP program so effective is the flexibility of • Expanded to serve students from pre-school national ad campaign sponsored by Chrysler and with its lesson plans, which are Common Core aligned to law school pilot programs in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Illinois; “I CAN FIRMLY STATE THAT WITHOUT and adapted to all grade levels and most academic • Added 16 new lesson plans on Nobel Peace Prize Bridgeport, Connecticut; and San Francisco, California. SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, SEVERAL OF MY subjects. Teachers have reported using STTP in lessons winners, RFK Laureate Librada Paz, and Mrs. on geography, government, psychology, and even Robert F. Kennedy in coordination with HBO’s STUDENTS MAY HAVE ABANDONED THEIR math. More importantly, the RFK Center works with documentary ETHEL, and debuted a new unit EDUCATION. THE VIDEO CONTEST AND local partners to ensure that the social and cultural called Become a Defender THE CURRICULUM BECAME A VERY BRIGHT sensitivities of the students are reflected in their STTP • Released a new Mandarin translation for AND POSITIVE SPOT AT OUR CENTER.” lesson plans. students in China and Taiwan

–Principal, BOCES School, Saratoga, • Trained 10,000 teachers and monks in New York, Winners of the 2012 Student Video Contest Cambodia with a focus on provinces with a The STTP EDUCATION | Khmer stronghold Curriculum: ENGAGEMENT | • Distributed education packs to 500,000 students in Italy alone and signed a Memorandum of ENCOURAGEMENT | Understanding in Lucca, Tuscany, the first city to Dr. Mohammed Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, teaches Speak Truth To make human rights education mandatory Power to a Chicago Public School STTP classroom during the 2012 World EXPERIENCE Summit of Nobel Laureates (see page 12)

7 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 8 “I WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY THE WAY IN WHICH THE UNBRIDLED PROMISE OF THE 1960S AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY LEADERSHIP LEGACY OF THE KENNEDY FAMILY WERE BEING BROUGHT TO BEAR IN ADVANCING A VISION OF A RFK COMPASS JUST, SUSTAINABLE, AND PROSPEROUS WORLD.” –Fiduciary

Promotes corporate responsibility by convening the world’s largest institutional investors to explore the ways fiduciary duty connects with human rights, the environment, and corporate governance.

AT FOUR ANNUAL RFK COMPASS CONFERENCES, groups of 125 to 175 fiduciaries, asset managers, and financial consultants, representing $3–5 trillion in assets managed, are joined by industry experts, human rights professionals, political leaders, and the RFK Center Leadership.

2012 Compass Conference Speakers

PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV

MICHAEL POSNER, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

ROGER ALTMAN, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the President Clinton speaks to Compass presenting sponsors Alan & Constance Buerger of Coventry during RFK Compass Chicago Treasury; Cofounder & Chairman, Evercore Partners MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL, Mayor of Chicago COMING IN 2013 “…A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT WE AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, Former Chairperson of the The inaugural class of the RFK Compass Sustainable Investing Certificate Council of Economic Advisors, Obama Administration ALL NEED TO GIVE WHAT WE CAN TO Program: a first of its kind continuing education initiative launched in IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF OUR alliance with The Earth Institute at Columbia University. LARRY SUMMERS, Former Secretary of the Treasury FELLOW HUMANKIND.” DR. MUHAMMAD YUNUS, STTP Defender and –Fiduciary Father of Microfinance “IT MOTIVATED US TO CONTINUE TO EXPLORE WAYS TO ‘MAKE THE WORLD BETTER’ BY LEVERAGING OUR FRANK MUGISHA, 2011 RFK Human Rights Laureate “TODAY, OF THE HUNDRED BIGGEST INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES.” and LGBTI Activist of return attendees said they ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD, 50 ARE NOT –Asset Manager have incorporated Environmental, LIBRADA PAZ, 2012 RFK Human Rights Laureate and STATES. THEY’RE PRIVATE COMPANIES. Social, and Governance factors Farmworkers’ Activist “SUSTAINABILITY DESCRIBES WHAT ALL INVESTING WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW into their investment decision MUST BE: FUTURE-ORIENTED, RISK-ADJUSTED AND COMPANIES AFFECT GLOBAL POLICY.” making practices because of OPPORTUNITY-DIRECTED.” – Michael Posner, former Assistant Secretary of RFK Compass State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor – Stephen Viederman

9 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 10 “AS YOU LISTEN TO THE STORIES OF THE NOBEL LAUREATES, YOU WILL HUMAN RIGHTS IN A WORLD FORUM NOTE THEY ALL HAVE ONE QUALITY IN COMMON: COURAGE. COURAGE IS BRAVERY (A WILLINGNESS TO OVERCOME FEAR), COMBINED WITH RFK CENTER HOSTS THE 12TH WORLD COMPASSION (A WILLINGNESS TO ACT ON BEHALF OF OTHERS).” SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES –Kerry Kennedy to Chicago Public School Audience

On April 23-25, the RFK Center partnered with the Chicago Community Trust and Chicago Public Schools to bring the first World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates held in North America.

The RFK Center arranged for the State Department spoke to the crowd via satellite. to live-stream all three days of the Summit to President Bill Clinton and Mayor Rahm Emanuel those unable to attend in person. A message from addressed the audience, and actor Sean Penn was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was broadcast honored with the Peace Summit Award for his to every U.S. Embassy in the world and President work in Haiti.

THE RFK CENTER’S CORE PROGRAMS CAME TOGETHER to make Chicago a hub for human rights discussions during the week of events

RFK SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER AT RFK PARTNERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THE WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL AT THE WORLD SUMMIT OF PEACE LAUREATES NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES STTP lesson plans on Nobel Peace Prize Joining the Nobel Laureates in Chicago were winners were taught in Chicago public schools the RFK Human Rights Award Laureates—Abel for several months before seventeen Nobel Barrera, , and Frank Mugisha— Nobel Peace Laureates gather with RFK Center leadership for a historic summit in Chicago Prize winners, including Mikhail Gorbachev and who helped ensure that indigenous rights, Muhammad Yunus, visited students at their community rights, and LGBTI rights were part of schools. Students from 26 local schools attended, the conversation at this historic summit. Through and a micro-site created in partnership with the events, Frank Mugisha connected with faith Eight renowned Nobel Peace Prize Laureates joined attendees in Scholastic, Inc. broadcast live-streams of the leaders across the country who later co-signed a Chicago for a four-day discussion of human rights, in addition to Summit to nearly 280,000 more students with the letter denouncing Uganda’s draft bill to outlaw 13 Nobel Peace Prize organizations: help of thousands of teachers across the country. homosexuality.

HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA – Tibet PRESIDENT FREDERIK WILLEM DE KLERK – South Africa RFK COMPASS AT THE WORLD SUMMIT PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER – OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES PROFESSOR JODY WILLIAMS – United States The first-ever Compass Midwest Regional Conference coincided with the Summit, bringing PRESIDENT LECH WAŁĘSA – Poland Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Muhammad Yunus, and PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV – Russia others to speak to the Compass community on PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD YUNUS – Bangladesh human rights and global investment practices. DR. SHIRIN EBADI – Iran

11 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 12 WHAT HAS LEARNING THROUGH SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER MEANT FOR YOU? HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE RENAISSANCE BEATRICE: “Developing empathy and a sense of responsibility.”

RFK EUROPE FRANCESCA: “Becoming aware of the importance of personal commitment in defending human rights.”

Based in Florence, Italy, the RFK Center’s European partner organization, RFK Europe, ERIKA: “Improving my ability to listen so I can communicate with others better.”

was created in 2005 to promote and expand the work of the RFK Center, with a GRETA: “Asking myself what we should do to take action as individuals?” focus on bringing human rights education and advocacy programs to European schools and communities.

STTP IN ITALY RFK TRAINING INSTITUTE SPOTLIGHT ON LE MURATE Italy is the most active nation partner in the Speak The RFK Training Institute is housed within RFK The RFK Center’s European branch in Florence, Truth To Power network: Europe and extends the culture and practice of Italy, is headquartered at the “Le Murate” human rights worldwide by training activists, complex, a former prison converted into a center Since 2008, RFK Europe has... professionals, government officials, students, and for human rights and peace studies. Florence was all those who work in the field of human rights. In the first state in the world to abolish the death TRAINED addition to its offerings with the RFK Center, the penalty, banning it in 1786. facility is available to other NGOs, companies, and groups who want to host trainings. The City of Florence and the RFK Center entered into 352 a partnership to develop programs, projects, and TEACHERS On June 18-19, 2012, RFK Europe organized the first activities that would use the unique structure at Le in a series of groundbreaking international human Murate and location in Florence to their full potential. rights training courses focusing on the impact and A key element of the agreement is that through the BROUGHT HUMAN influence of social media on the promotion of “cyber dissidents” project, the RFK Training Institute RIGHTS EDUCATION TO human rights. Activists from 15 nations gathered at will host and train human rights activists who use Le Murate to train on how to create change in the social media as an advocacy tool. PRIMARY digital era. 33 SCHOOLS AND U.S. ELECTIONS WATCH Off the page and into the classroom: SECONDARY In November 2012, a two-day course on the U.S. elections wrapped up with an evening In 2012, STTP defenders SCHOOLS 319 plenary, during which an audience of students GABOR GOMBOS (Disability Rights—Hungary), and academics watched live poll projections and STEPHEN BRADBERRY heard speeches from U.S. Consul in Florence Sarah (Racial and Poverty Justice—USA), EDUCATING MORE THAN Craddock Morrison; pollster John Zogby; former MARINA PISKLAKOVA Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt; Clinton (Domestic Violence—Russia), and administration official Phil Johnston; former Ohio AMINATOU HAIDAR (Self-determination— HALF A Congressman Dennis Kucinich; and Republican Western Sahara) came to Italy to meet with RFK HUMAN RIGHTS strategist Wesley Donehue. Europe students and supporters MILLION TUESDAY NIGHTS STUDENTS EACH YEAR Since January 2012, RFK Europe has organized Human Rights Tuesday Nights, monthly meetings RFK Europe Student Journalism Awards during which experts openly debate issues related In May 2012, RFK Europe and the City of Florence organized the third edition of the European to human rights. Each event takes place at the RFK Journalism Award. The 2012 theme was “Human Rights and Social Media” and the winners were: Caffè Letterario de Le Murate in Florence and is streamed live on the radio station Controradio Social Media: Renata Radic-Dragic (Bosnia) College: Carmel Delshad, Kirsti Itameri (USA) reaching 10,000 people per episode. Photography: Majid Saeedi (Iran) Italian High School: Dunia Bousati (Italy)

13 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 14 HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MEDIA RFK BOOK & JOURNALISM AWARDS RFK SPECIAL PROJECTS

THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY RFK JUVENILE JUSTICE JOURNALISM AWARDS The RFK Juvenile Justice Collaborative joins forces Recognizes outstanding reporting on issues that with Massachusetts’ RFK Children’s Action Corps, reflect Robert Kennedy’s dedication to human founder of an innovative model for alternatives rights and social justice, and his belief in the power to juvenile incarceration, to bring together of individual action. Winning entries provide the practice of direct service and the power of insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies advocacy to strengthen the rights of juveniles and of human rights violations and injustice, and critical urge more effective policies for adjudicated youth analyses of the movements that foster positive transitioning back into their communities. global change. The 2012 winners were: The program educates national policy makers on key youth re-entry issues, including youth • Domestic TV: “Crime After Crime,” by Yoav Potash from the Oprah Winfrey Network access to education upon reentry and improved coordination of federal reentry policies and HEALTH eVILLAGES • International TV: “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,” programs for youth so that it can support youth In 2012, Health eVillages worked to improve by May Welsh, Hassan Mahfood & Jon Blair, leaving the juvenile justice system to successfully the quality of care in some of the poorest, most Al Jazeera English re-enter their communities and lead healthy, safe, underserved areas of the globe, by empowering • Radio: “Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered and successful lives. medical professionals in Uganda, Haiti, China, and Families,” by Laura Sullivan and Amy Walters, NPR Kenya with mobile health tools and trainings that In 2012, RFK Juvenile Justice teamed up with RFK • International Photography: “Broken Promise: Gold save lives. Speak Truth To Power and Washington College of Mining in Peru’s High Andes,” by Michael Robinson Chavez, The Los Angeles Times Magazine Law to bring law students to the Maya Angelou Health eVillages provides state-of-the-art mobile Academy, the school that serves Washington, health technology, including medical reference • Domestic Photography: “A Lasting Toll” by Katie D.C.’s secure juvenile detention facility, to teach and clinical decision support resources, to medical Falkenberg, The Los Angeles Times the STTP human rights curriculum. RFK Juvenile professional in the most challenging clinical THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY • International Print: “China: Living Under the Yoke,” Justice hosted a Youth Roundtable on Capitol Hill environments around the world. In 2013, the BOOK AWARD by Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers for congressional staff to hear first-hand from program will launch its first U.S. sites in the • Domestic Print: “Imminent Danger,” by Meg youth who have been affected by the juvenile Gulf Coast, an area still reeling from the health Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel justice system. impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2012, Kathryn Sikkink’s The Justice Cascade was • Cartoon Winner: “The Beginning of the American named as the recipient Fall and Code Green,” by Stephanie McMillan, South Florida Sun-Sentinel RFK YOUNG LEADERS of RFK Book Award, an “THIS WORLD DEMANDS annual award presented • College Print/Broadcast: Arizona State THE QUALITIES OF YOUTH; Inspired by the vision of Robert F. Kennedy, the RFK Young Leaders (RFKYL) are dedicated to empowering young human rights defenders, to the book that, in the University, Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass NOT A TIME OF LIFE BUT A Communication, “Stateless in the Dominican and motivating a diverse community of young people to take action words of Award Founder STATE OF MIND, A TEMPER Arthur Schlesinger, “faith- Republic,” by the Cronkite Borderlands Initiative for social justice and human rights. In the words of one of our OF THE WILL, A QUALITY fully and forcefully re- • High School Broadcast: Cody High School, “The founding members, “Our work is to inspire a generation of young OF THE IMAGINATION, flects Robert Kennedy, his Power of One,” by Jared Iler and Anna Reed people who have a feeling something is wrong in the world but lack a concern for the poor and A PREDOMINANCE OF channel to fix it.” • High School Print: Davis Sr High School, “A Light on powerless, his struggle for COURAGE OVER TIMIDITY, Latinos,” by Anna Sturla & Daniel Tutt The RFKYL network includes hundreds of young professionals, honest and even-handed OF THE APPETITE FOR from a wide range of fields—business, art, education, social media, justice, his conviction that a decent society must ADVENTURE OVER THE LIFE information technology, film, finance, academia, law, social services— assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith OF EASE.” who all share a commitment to effecting change in creative and that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities –Robert F. Kennedy meaningful ways. of power and opportunity.”

15 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 16 RFKC GROWTH

A LOOK AT THE 2012 NUMBERS Historical Revenues, RFK CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Fiscal year 2012 was one of moderate financial Expenses, and Assets growth to another record high in RFK Center Ethel S. Kennedy, Harry Belafonte The Honorable Joseph P. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs Founder Kennedy III revenues, continuing a trajectory begun in 2005. 9,000,000 Alan Buerger Henry Schleiff Revenues in 2012 were $8,150,866. Expenses Robert F. Smith, Larry Cox Matthew R. Kennedy Martin Sheen 8,000,000 Chair were $7,968,978, reflecting increases to cover the Professor Peter B. Orin Kramer Paul van Zyl 7,000,000 Terry Mazany, Co-Chair organization’s programming growth. Net assets at Edelman Marialina Marcucci Luz Vega-Marquis the close of 2012 were $6,128,013. 6,000,000 Robert Wolf, Co-Chair Mark E. Freitas Elisa Massimino Jake Walthour 5,000,000 Anthony Williams, Timothy Gannon Michael Posner 4,000,000 Treasurer & Secretary Jonah Goodhart Walter Raquet Ex Officio Members: Kerry Kennedy, 3,000,000 Claudio Grossman John Rogers President Lynn Delaney 2,000,000 REVENUES Richard Iannuzzi Marvin S. Rosen John Zurick 1,000,000 EXPENSES Philip W. Johnston Malika Saada Saar

0 NET ASSETS 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

FINANCIALS 2012 Spending 2012 Revenue 1% RFK CENTER STAFF 12% 44% Kerry Kennedy, President Caroline Dobuzinskis, Annabel Lee Hogg, Valentina Pagliai, Lynn Delaney, Communications Program Coordinator European Head of Executive Director Coordinator and Administrative Program, RFK Speak Assistant to COO Truth To Power John Zurick, Chief Sierra Ewert, RFK Young 51% Operating Officer and Leaders Fellow Saranah Holmes, Karen Robinson, Director of Operations, Fiammetta Chiarini, Executive Assistant Senior Education RFK Compass European Program Urvashi Kaul, Education Manager, RFK Speak Truth To Power Santiago A. Canton, Officer, RFK Speak Manager, RFK Compass Director, RFK Partners Truth To Power Kathleen Kelly, Marianne Scharf, for Human Rights Wesley George Farrow, Donald M. Wilson Conference Program 5% Manager, RFK Compass 88% John Heffernan, West Coast Manager, Fellow, RFK Partners CORPORATIONS Director, RFK Speak RFK Speak Truth for Human Rights Jeffrey Smith, PROGRAMMATIC To Power Advocacy Officer FOUNDATIONS Truth To Power Valentina Lombardo, NON-PROGRAMMATIC GOVERNMENT Mimi Evans, Director of Liz Fisher, Executive Development Assistant, Deborah A. Temkin, Ph.D., Assistant RFK Training Institute Manager, Bullying INDIVIDUAL DONORS Development 100,000 Prevention Initiative Meaghan Baron, Director Kevin Golden, Mary McCoy, West Coast Development Coordinator, RFK Brigette Vannall Wallace, 100,000 of Communications RFK CENTER/EUROPE Coordinator Speak Truth To Power Accountant 100,000 Lydia Allen, Human Rights Revenues, Expenses, Change in Net Assets Award Coordinator, Andrew Graber, Program Wade McMullen, Staff Carol S. Wolf, Coordinator 100,000 RFK Partners for Coordinator, RFK Attorney, RFK Partners of Special Projects RFK Center’s affiliated organization in Florence, Human Rights Speak Truth To Power for Human Rights Italy, operates separately as an Italian registered 100,000 Jesse Buggs, Manager, IT Brian Hanafin, Executive Federico Moro, Executive Graphic Design: non-government organization. RFK Center/ 100,000 Assistant, RFK Partners Director of RFK Europe and Operations Jennifer Kakaletris Europe 2012 revenues were $761,033. Expenses for Human Rights 100,000 Kimberly Cohen, Design LLC were $656,535, netting a 2012 yearend surplus Development Associate of $104,498. 100,000

0 Revenues Expenses Change in Net Assets 17 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 18 GIVING: YOUR IMPACT

buys a life-saving Health eVillages device for a doctor in Uganda, China, Haiti, the $250 Louisiana Gulf Coast, or another medically underserved area

sends 25 farmworkers from the fields of New York State to the Capitol in Albany to $500 march for farmworkers rights legislation that Robert Kennedy called for 45 years ago

brings a teacher to Washington, D.C., for the Speak Truth To Power $1,000 Summer Training Institute

pays for a human rights activist or a cyber-dissident—like those who gave voice $5,000 to the Arab Spring on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs around the Middle East and North Africa—to study capacity building in cyber security and human rights methods at the RFK Training Institute in Florence, Italy

funds one month of advocacy, like the work to prevent Uganda’s anti- $8,000 homosexuality bill from becoming law

brings Speak Truth To Power’s human rights education and training program to a $10,000 new school district in the United States, Italy, or Cambodia

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