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EXPOSE INJUSTICE. TEACH CHANGE. RIGHT WRONG. HEAL PAIN. JOIN US. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 DEAR FRIENDS, 2013 marked the Robert F. Kennedy Center’s 45th anniversary. For almost WHERE DID WE GO? half a century, we have sought to continue Robert Kennedy’s dream of a more just, peaceful, and compassionate world, and we are so proud of all that we have achieved. But while we celebrate our past, we continue to look to the future with the launch of our 2013-2018 legacy campaign, which will ensure that our work continues for decades to come.

The 30th Annual As part of landmark Village of LWALA, KENYA That work brought impressive results in 2013. We successfully urged the Human Rights Award efforts to ensure access to sees a 50% reduction in Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to protect 80 Dominicans of Haitian descent—including 30 children—from a xenophobic government- honors its firstEGYPTIAN education for indigenous infant mortality thanks to led effort to strip them of their citizenship and render them stateless. defender, Ragia Omran people, RFK Center RFK Health eVillages We delivered human rights education to more than a million students (SEE PAGE 5) delegation builds a school (SEE PAGE 16) worldwide, including to one out of every nine children in Sweden and to in BUENA VISTA, a village children in every province of Italy. We secured $105 million dollars from in the poorest state in the BP’s Deepwater Horizon settlement agreement to fund medical clinics for poorest region of Mexico underserved communities along the Gulf Coast, including the Robert F. Compass Education (SEE PAGE 7) Prominent actors joined Kennedy Lafitte Medical Clinic, which opened in August. These were just welcomes its first students from the Robert a few of our many accomplishments, which we’ve tried to summarize in class of sustainable F. Kennedy Community these pages. investing students at Schools to perform Speak Our successes in 2013 remind us of the battles fought and won by this COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Truth To Power: Voices organization since 1968. In the nearly five decades since its founding, (SEE PAGE 13-14) in Students from the From Beyond the Dark the Robert F. Kennedy Center has freed prisoners of conscience in South LOS ANGELES BROOKLYN WOMEN’S Korea, Mexico, Kenya, El Salvador, , Vietnam, and . We (SEE PAGE 12) LEADERSHIP ACADEMY opened the first public interest legal clinic in Chad and closed one of win the Second Annual the most notorious juvenile detention facilities in America. We have First RFK Project Speak Truth To Power sent hundreds of RFK Fellows to serve the poor in 191 communities from Appalachia to Watts, and we’ve honored scores of journalists who have SEATBELT bullying Video Contest exposed injustice, oppression, and corruption. prevention pilot programs (SEE PAGE 10) RFK Young Leaders launch in WASHINGTON, travel to FARM AID IN Our core programs are linked by a commitment to Robert Kennedy’s D.C. (SEE PAGE 11) SARATOGA SPRINGS quest “to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the to rally support for world.” With your support, we will continue that effort, wherever there Activists from MYANMAR, farmworkers is injustice: from the mountains of Guerrero to the farms of Upstate New (SEE PAGE 15) The Robert F. Kennedy THE PHILIPPINES, MEXICO, York; from the classrooms of Kigali to the courtrooms of Cairo. PAKISTAN, SRI LANKA, Book Award was presented I am proud to present the 2013 Annual Report of the Robert F. Kennedy and ZIMBABWE gather for to Nobel Laureate Joseph Center for Justice and Human Rights. Stieglitz in WASHINGTON, the first digital D.C. for his work on income course at the RFK Training Institute (SEE PAGE 7) inequality (SEE PAGE 17) Warmly, Kerry Kennedy President 1 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 2 HUMAN RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD

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3 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 4 HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE COURT: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE FIELD INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC LITIGATION UNIT (ISLU)

RFK PARTNERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Defending the Right to Nationality for Women of Zimbabwe Arise demanding right to Dominicans of Haitian Descent protest, freedom of assembly, and expression “For decades, the Dominican Republic has After more than a decade of violence and arbitrary Our Newest Partnership: systematically denied citizenship to Dominicans of arrests against Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) Haitian descent. In June, Partners for Human Rights’ and its leaders, the RFK Center and Zimbabwe Lawyers RAGIA OMRAN (EGYPT) ISLU program secured protective measures from for Human Rights filed the case in April 2013 detailing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights over two dozen incidents of state-sponsored violence— The RFK Center presented the 2013 RFK Human Rights for over 80 Dominicans whose birth certificates and establishing a clear pattern of suppression of WOZA’s Award to Ragia Omran, a leading human rights attorney national IDs had been seized by the government. rights to participate in public demonstrations—and from Egypt. Ragia became a leader of the human The commission ordered the government to halt challenges the pattern of impunity in Zimbabwe. rights movement in Egypt twenty years ago, when deportations and grant the RFK Center’s clients access In November, the case was accepted by the African she successfully campaigned to ban female genital to basic services. Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights—the first mutilation from Egyptian hospitals. At the height of time the body agreed to hear a case that directly the Arab Spring, she co-founded the Almasry Alhurr addresses the right to engage in peaceful protests. Movement, calling for government accountability, social justice, and an end to emergency law. She and her colleagues have represented hundreds of civilians ordered to military trial as part of the Front to Defend RFK Training Institute in Florence, Italy Egypt Protesters and she is a leading member of Egypt’s Partners for Human Rights’ Robert F. Kennedy Training Institute held its first annual training on human rights protection New Woman Foundation, advancing reproductive rights mechanisms at the RFK International House in Florence, Italy in collaboration with American University’s Washington and the political participation of women. College of Law. The participants for the training were experienced activists from thirteen countries around the world.

RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD LAUREATES

2013 – Ragia Omran (Egypt): Advancing women’s 2008 – (Western Sahara): in Chad and for World Bank accountability and 1998 – Berenice Celeyta, and Jaime 1994 – (China): Promoting a 1989 – (China): Advocating for rights, rule of law, and democracy in Egypt. Promoting the civil and political rights of corporate responsibility in the disbursement of Prieto (Colombia): Protecting human rights democratic government and the release of democracy and freedom of education in China. 2012 – (): Advocating the people of Western Sahara, including the oil revenues. defenders and defending the rights of those political prisoners. 1988 – Gibson Kamau Kuria (Kenya): Championing for the rights of farmworkers and migrant freedom of speech and assembly and the right to 2003 – Coalition of Immokalee Workers (United marginalized by the internal conflict in Colombia. (China): Advocating for human for Kenya’s legal and constitutional reform. self-determination. workers in the U.S. States): Ending modern-day slavery and the 1997 – Sezgin Tanrikulu (Turkey): Defending the rights and political reform in China. 1987 – Kim Keun Tae and In Jae Keun (South 2011 – (Uganda): Advocating for 2007 – Dr. (): exploitation of migrant workers in the U.S. rights of Kurdish citizens. 1993 – (Indonesia): Korea): Striving for democracy in South Korea LGBTI rights and HIV/AIDS awareness. Treating victims of torture, and to ensure peace agricultural industry. Senal Sarihan (Turkey): Strengthening Turkey’s Promoting self-determination and control of and eliminating the systematic torture of process includes provisions for post conflict truth 2010 – Abel Barrera Hernández (Mexico): 2002 – (Haiti): Realizing the human civil society and promoting women’s rights. natural resources by West Papuans. political prisoners. and reconciliation. Fighting for the full spectrum of human right to health for all Haitians. 1996 – Anonymous (Sudan): Eliminating the 1992 – (Malawi): Promoting a 1986 – (): Promoting a rights of indigenous and rural communities 2006 – (Dominican Republic): 2001 – (Brazil): Promoting rights of persecution of minorities in Sudan. democratic society and workers’ rights. democratic society in Poland. Working for the rights of Dominicans of Haitian and demanding protection of human rights the landless and sustainable agriculture in Brazil 1995 – Doan Viet Hoat (Vietnam): Striving for 1991 – (): Advocating for (Poland): Opposing communist descent and Haitian immigrants in the Dominican defenders in the region. and combating modern-day slavery. a democratic government and economic and civil rights and justice in Israel. rule in Poland. Republic. 2009 – Magodonga Mahlangu & Women 2000 – (India): Bringing an end to human rights reform for the Vietnamese people. (Palestine): Defending the human 1985 – , Beyers Naude, and Winnie 2005 – (United States): of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) (Zimbabwe): human rights violations and discrimination against Nguyen Dan Que (Vietnam): Advocating for rights of the Palestinian people. Mandela (South Africa): Ending apartheid in Advocating for political and social change in Establishing the right to return and participate the “untouchable” Dalit population in India. political reform and freedom of expression in 1990 – Amilcar Mendez Urizar (Guatemala): South Africa. Zimbabwe, empowering women, and striving for for those displaced from their homes by the Gulf 1999 – Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis Viet Nam. Protecting the constitutional and human rights 1984 – CoMadres (El Salvador): Ending politically universal education. Coast hurricanes. (Liberia): Strengthening Liberian civil society (India): Ending child labor of Guatemala’s indigenous population. motivated forced disappearances in El Salvador. 2004 – Delphine Djiraibe (Chad): Advocating and respect for human rights as a basis for and realizing the human right to education for for social, economic, and environmental rights sustainable peace. all children.

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A YEAR IN THE FIELD

JANUARY Albany, New York: Kerry Kennedy advocates APRIL Harare, Zimbabwe: Robert F. Kennedy JULY Jean Lafitte, : RFK Medical Clinic OCTOBER Banjul, Gambia: RFK staff leads workshops for farmworkers’ rights before New York Center helps collect testimony in support of opens, the first in a series of health care on freedom of assembly and human State Assembly a case presented to the African Commission expansions funded through $105 million rights and elections as part of the African on Human and Peoples’ Rights urging the in settlement funds from the Deepwater Commission sessions Zimbabwean government to respect the Horizon disaster FEBRUARY Buena Vista, Mexico: Kerry Kennedy, her freedoms of expression and assembly daughter Michaela, and a delegation of NOVEMBER Washington, D.C.: RFK International Strategic 24 volunteers build a school for Me’phaa AUGUST Zimbabe, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe holds Litigation Unit testifies before the Inter- villagers as the RFK Center files the Brown MAY Florence, Italy: Digital activists from elections, which Robert F. Kennedy Center American Commission on Human Rights on the v. Board of Ed-equivalent case to protect Myanmar, Philippines, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri report finds were compromised by “a human rights implications of the proliferation indigenous right to education. Lanka, and Zimbabwe arrive at the newly- systematic crackdown on civil society and and use of drones in the Americas. opened RFK International House of Human the human rights community” that included Rights, to meet face to face, exchange skills arbitrary arrests and violations of the MARCH Kampala, Uganda: Robert F. Kennedy Center DECEMBER Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: and experiences, and build relationships to freedom of expression and assembly. delegation and Robert F. Kennedy Human Delegation testifies to the Inter-American inspire justice. Rights Award laureate Frank Mugisha meet Court on Human Rights on the DR’s ethnic with the Ugandan Inspector General of SEPTEMBER Geneva, Switzerland: International Strategic scrubbing campaign to strip citizenship from Police, the Ugandan LGBT community’s first JUNE Cali, Colombia: RFK International Strategic Litigation Unit reports to the Dominicans of Haitian descent opportunity to open a dialogue with the Litigation Unit (ISLU) and 1998 RFK Human Human Rights Committee on United States police about how it is treated. Rights Award Laureate, Berenice Celeyta, farmworkers labor guidelines that violate Photos (left to right): umenimus quaepe dolupta possit veles doluptas di lead a fact-finding investigation on the international human rights standards. vidunducide officid ionsedit quunt, oditatatus sequi ab isquunt inisquam right to education of indigenous people apero con everum re vendend itatiumet optibus eiumEd ut quo explabo. Hiliquiae sam fugiat exerionsed quae ene prerum laborent.Ficientur sinim from Cauca. ipis el il ipiendis

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

“The [STTP] training PART ONE—EDUCATION PART TWO—ENGAGEMENT was like somebody Providing students with a background in the history of human Exposing students to the personal struggles of the human rights activists through lesson plans and awakening me. rights, focusing on human rights principles, covenants and a tool kit for teachers. The defenders and their compelling stories provide positive role models for Afterwards, I knew conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. the students, who are encouraged to self-identify as human rights defenders in their own lives. how to use my own rights. It’s like someone reminded me of my rights and ONE CURRICULUM, COUNTLESS LESSONS FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE SILVER SCREEN before all was dark.” There is no one-size-fits-all approach. What makes the The Young Women’s Leadership School of Brooklyn “When we first started preparing for the contest a –Sovann Nuth, teacher at STTP program so effective is the flexibility of its lesson took top billing as the Grand Prize of the Second young lady said to me, ‘I’ll just be glad to get first or Krong High School in Kam- pong Chhnang, Cambodia plans, which are Common Core aligned and adapted to Annual Speak Truth To Power video contest with their second place.’ I told her, ‘Don’t you ever settle. Don’t all grade levels and most academic subjects. Teachers film, “Modern Slavery & Sex Trafficking.” The grand you ever settle for last place.’ When I told her we were have reported using STTP in lessons on geography, prize-winning video highlights the work of human in the top three, she was so surprised. As she looked government, psychology and even math. More rights defender Juliana Dogbadzi of Ghana. In the film, at me I told her, ‘Don’t you ever settle when you have importantly, the RFK Center works with local partners students explain how the modern-day slavery of sex greatness in you.’ Today we found out we came in to ensure that the social and cultural sensitivities of the trafficking is intertwined with politics, poverty, and a first and I looked at her. She looked at me and smiled. students are reflected in their STTP lesson plans. host of other issues. The students’ film was screened to In her eyes was a new confidence that I had not seen audiences as part of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, but as before. She became changed.”

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PART THREE— ENCOURAGEMENT Urging students to abandon the role OF YOUTH WHO ARE BULLIED of bystander when faced with injustice and inequality. To Become a Defender PART FOUR—EXPERIENCE FAIL TO NOTIFY encourages students, passionate about Featuring the Ariel Dorfman play Speak Truth To Power: Voices From Beyond the Dark, with a human rights issue, to create change students portraying human rights defenders. It allows the students to walk in the shoes of heroic AN ADULT in their communities. defenders and bring them to life for larger audiences.

RFK PROJECT SEATBELT SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER COMES TO THE RFK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Developed with support from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, The Safe School Certification In front of a sold out audience in the historic Cocoanut Program, and Chrysler, LLC, RFK Project SEATBELT (Safe Grove Theater, students from the Los Angeles Environments Achieved Through Bullying prevention, High School of the Arts at the Robert F. Kennedy Engagement, Leadership, and Tolerance) launched in Community Schools complex in the Los Angeles 2013 with an innovative research-based website and a Unified School District (LAUSD) joined accomplished national ad campaign sponsored by Chrysler. President actors to share the stories of human rights heroes and of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi raise money to bring the global Speak Truth To Power Weingarten, President of the National Education curriculum to their classrooms. Association, Dennis Van Roekel, NYSUT president and RFK Center board member Dick Iannuzzi, Chair of the Award-winning playwright Ariel Dorfman was Congressional Anti-Bullying Caucus, Representative inspired to write a theatrical presentation based on Mike Honda, and BULLY filmmaker Lee Hirsch, joined Kerry Kennedy’s interviews with more than 50 human Robert F. Kennedy Center President Kerry Kennedy rights activists from around the world. Speak Truth and representatives from Chrysler to officially To Power: Voices from Beyond the Dark, January 2013 launch the campaign at a press conference and performance featured students from the Los Angeles Capitol Hill hearing. High School of the Arts at RFK Community Schools and starred MARTIN SHEEN, TREVOR DONOVAN, CATHERINE KEENER, PAUL SORVINO, and ALFRE WOODARD. *Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2011

11 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 12 HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY RFK COMPASS WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE INVESTING?

Promotes corporate responsibility to ensure that human An investment philosophy that looks at environmental, rights concerns, fair labor practices, and environmental social, and governance factors to identify investments that safeguards are reflected in global investment strategies. minimize risk and maximize shareholder opportunities.

“Sustainability describes what all investing must be: future-oriented, risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed.” –Stephen Viederman

In alliance with The Earth Institute, Columbia University COMPASS SUSTAINABLE INVESTING EDUCATION PROGRAM

Launched in Fall 2013, the inaugural classes of the RFK Compass Continuing Education Initiative introduced asset owners, asset managers and consultants with 2013 Keynote Speakers “The class was better than any conference I’ve “Today, of the hundred biggest a long term investment perspective—pension funds, • MICHAEL POSNER, former Assistant Secretary of State for economies in the world, 50 been to—because the professors were not endowments, financial planners, foundations and Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor [Hyannis Port, Massachusetts] are not states. They’re private trying to ‘sell a product.’” sovereign wealth funds—to a comprehensive approach • Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO LLOYD BLANKFEIN companies. We have to figure to investment analysis that includes environment, [New York, New York] out how companies affect “The lectures were fascinating, the professors social/human rights, corporate governance and labor were stimulating and the peer group at large issues. • Illinois Governor PAT QUINN & Mayor RAHM EMANUEL global policy.”–Michael Posner brought up salient points during discussion.” [Chicago, Illinois] Grounded in the understanding that sustainable investing is an element of risk mitigation, and at • 32 Advisors Founder and Obama Administration Economic “The caliber of the faculty was a pleasant Advisor ROBERT WOLF [Hyannis Port, Massachusetts] the core of fiduciary responsibility, the program surprise. The level of engagement among staff, was described by one advisor as bringing together • Environmentalist/philanthropist TOM STEYER faculty, and participants was the defining in-depth topic areas that students would previously [San Francisco, California] attribution that advanced the program from have had to finish four masters’ degrees to cover. very good to exceptional.”

13 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 14 HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NEXT GENERATION RFK YOUNG LEADERS, JUVENILE JUSTICE, AND HEALTH e VILLAGES

RFK YOUNG LEADERS

Inspired by the vision of Robert F. Kennedy, the RFK Young Leaders (RFKYL) are dedicated to empowering young human rights defenders, and motivating a diverse community of young people to take action for social justice and human rights. In the words of one of our founding members, “Our work is to inspire a generation of young people who have a feeling something is wrong RFK JUVENILE JUSTICE HEALTH eVILLAGES in the world but lack a channel to fix it.” The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Health eVillages works around the world to empower The RFKYL network includes hundreds of young Human Rights continues to partner with the the doctors and nurses with devices that provide the latest professionals, from a wide range of fields—business, RFK Children’s Action Corps to lead the RFK Juvenile tools like clinical decision support and drug dosage art, education, social media, information technology, Justice Collaborative—a project that harnesses calculators and customized reference material in an film, finance, academia, law, social services—who all the expertise of direct service and the power of affordable and space conscious digital vehicle. share a commitment to effecting change in creative advocacy to strengthen the rights of juveniles and and meaningful ways. urge more effective policies for adjudicated youth Using donated smartphones and similar devices, transitioning back into their communities. Health eVillages provides state-of-the-art mobile health technology including medical reference In 2013, the Collaborative co-led a national listening and clinical decision support resources to medical Except Farmworkers Campaign tour on access to education for adjudicated and professionals in the most challenging clinical In 2013, inspired by the RFK Center’s farmworkers reentering youth. During the tour’s eight regional environments around the world, including Uganda, rights work, the Young Leaders created the website listening sessions—which hosted more than 100 Haiti, China, Kenya, and the Gulf Coast of the U.S. www.exceptfarmworkers.com to serve as a hub for leaders, local practitioners, and advocates—the information on the Farm Workers Fair Labor Practices Collaborative heard how to improve access to Act, a video, a map of NYC partners, endorsements, education for youth both in and returning from HEALTH eVILLAGES AND and direct ways to get involved and make a the juvenile justice system. The tour culminated in IN ONE PARTNERS LOWERED THE difference. And they organized an event featuring the writing and presentation of a federal policy INFANT MORTALITY RATE BY Chef Jean Georges and New York Times reporter paper at the Department of Education and Ford YEAR Mark Bittman to raise awareness and funds for the Foundation’s Second Summit on Correctional and justice for farmworkers campaign in New York. Reentry Education. The Departments of Education IN THE and Justice are implementing many of these policy VILLAGE recommendations today. OF LLAWA, KENYA

15 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 16 HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRINT ROBERT F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE & HUMAN RIGHTS RFK BOOK & JOURNALISM AWARDS GROWTH Historical 10,000,000 Revenues, 9,000,000 Expenses, 8,000,000 and Assets 7,000,000 A LOOK AT THE 2013 NUMBERS 6,000,000 Fiscal year 2013 was another year of continued 5,000,000 revenue growth and improved financial 4,000,000

underpinnings. Revenues in 2013 were $10,043,559. 3,000,000 Expenses were $8,566,954, reflecting increases to 2,000,000 REVENUES cover the organization’s programmatic growth. Net EXPENSES assets at the close of 2013 increased to $7,900,655. 1,000,000 0 NET ASSETS 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 About the Robert F. Kennedy JOURNALISM AWARDS FINANCIALS Recognizes outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s 42% dedication to human rights and social justice, and his belief in the power 18% 2013 Spending 2013 Revenue of individual action. Winning entries provide insights into the causes, The Robert F. Kennedy conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and 1% BOOK AWARD critical analyses of the movements that foster positive global change. The 2013 RFK Book Award • International TV: Lobster Trap; • Radio: An “Occupational Hazard”: Catherine Olian/Natalie Morales; Rape in the Military; Bob Edwards; The 82% was presented to Joseph E. 16% Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality: NBC News/Rock Center with Bob Edwards Show, SiriusXM Radio Brian Williams How Today’s Divided Economy • Cartoon: Cartoons by Jen Sorensen; Endangers Our Future. Stiglitz, • Domestic TV: Poor Kids; Jezza Kaiser Health News, Austin winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize Neumann; PBS/Frontline Chronicle, NPR.org, Ms. Magazine, 41% in Economics, is a professor at The Progressive Columbia University. In his book, • International Print: The iEconomy; Dr. Stiglitz argues that America’s Charles Duhigg; The New York Times • Photography: Embracing Uncle CORPORATIONS Charlie; Marc Asnin; CNN Photos growing income inequality is not • Domestic Print: Prognosis: Profits; FOUNDATIONS simply an accident of history, Ames Alexander, Karen Garloch, • College Journalism: M-Powered: RFK CENTER/EUROPE GOVERNMENT but rather a result of the undue Joseph Neff, David Raynor, Jim University of Mississippi students learn 1,000,000 Revenues, Expenses, Change in Net Assets INDIVIDUAL DONORS influence that special interests Walser, and Steve Riley; The Charlotte through service in Belize; Patricia have over our political process. Observer and The News & Observer Thompson, Director of Student Media; RFK Center’s affiliated organization in Florence, Italy, 750,000 University of Mississippi • New Media: Beyond 7 Billion; operates separately as an Italian registered non- 500,000 government organization. RFK Center/Europe 2013 Photo (above, right): Mrs. Ethel Kennedy Kenneth Weiss and Rick Loomis; Los • High School Print: Special Needs 250,000 presents the Ripple of Hope Award to Nobel Angeles Times Cheer Squad Volunteer; Alexis revenues were $1,164,158. Expenses were $1,033,110, Laureate Muhammad Yunus netting a 2013 yearend surplus of $131,047. 0 Christo; North Star Revenues Expenses Change in Net Assets 17 | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights 2012 Annual Report | 18 GIVING: $50 buys a life-saving Health eVillages device for a doctor in Uganda, YOUR IMPACT Kenya, China, Haiti, the Louisiana Gulf Coast, or another medically underserved area $200 trains a teacher to provide the Speak Truth To Power curriculum in a school $1,000 sends 50 farmworkers from the fields of New York State to the Capitol in Albany to march for farmworkers rights legislation that Robert Kennedy called for 45 years ago $5,000 pays for a human rights activist or a cyber-—like those who gave voice 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 $10,000 brings Speak Truth To Power’s human rights education and training program to a new school in the United States, Italy, or Cambodia $15,000 Provides personal protection services for a human rights defender in danger, like Frank Mugisha in the aftermath of the Uganda Anti- Homosexuality Law

FIND OUT WHAT t Twitter: WE’RE DOING TODAY: @kerrykennedyrfk @rfkcenter G Facebook: Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, RFK Center s Website: www.rfkcenter.org www.rfkennedyeurope.org