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2013 Annual Report of the Robert F 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, Malawi, Vietnam, and Uganda. 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 dissidents 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 SWEDEN CANADA ROMANIA UNITED SPAIN STATES ITALY GREECE CHINA EGYPT HONG KONG HAITI NEPAL NICARAGUA CAMBODIA RWANDA KEY RFK Human Rights Defenders SOUTH AFRICA Countries where the Speak Truth To Power Human Rights Curriculum is taught 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 – Aminatou Haidar (Western Sahara): in Chad and for World Bank accountability and 1998 – Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez and Jaime 1994 – Ren Wanding (China): Promoting a 1989 – Fang Lizhi (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 – Librada Paz (United States): 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. Wei Jingsheng (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 – Frank Mugisha (Uganda): Advocating for 2007 – Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah (Sudan): exploitation of migrant workers in the U.S. rights of Kurdish citizens. 1993 – Bambang Widjojanto (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 – Loune Viaud (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 – Chakufwa Chihana (Malawi): Promoting a 1986 – Zbigniew Bujak (Poland): Promoting a rights of indigenous and rural communities 2006 – Sonia Pierre (Dominican Republic): 2001 – Darci Frigo (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 – Avigdor Feldman (Israel): Advocating for Adam Michnik (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
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