Reminder: Submissions for our 2026 Book & Journalism Awards close on January 30 at 11:59 PM ET. Eligible entries must have been published, aired, or broadcast in 2025. 🔗 Learn more about this year's categories & submit your entry: rfkhro.org/4s2H8BE

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to nominate a human rights defender or organization for our 2026 Human Rights Award! 🚨 Learn more about the award and submit your nomination here: rfkhro.org/47YPNfk

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.”

(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

(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.

(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.

(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! 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

Will you join us to #OrangeTheWorld? Support our work: rfkhro.org/4rb1GaA And tag us in your photos if you're joining the movement!

(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!

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

🗣️ 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

(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.”

(1/2) Today, Senator Kennedy, our namesake and hero, would have turned 100. His legacy continues to live on in our work and in the countless lives he touched. Happy Heavenly Birthday, Senator Kennedy.

Don’t miss our Nov. 21 Book Club with Chris Matthews and @kerrykennedy.bsky.social, discussing Chris’s book Lessons from Bobby, as we mark what would have been Sen. Kennedy's 100th birthday next week. 🔗 Register: rfkhro.org/4o0BbSF

(1/5) 🧵 Sharing some good news this morning! @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social's U.S. Advocacy and Litigation team has secured three major victories in federal courts over the past month. ➡️

(2/5) In N.N. v. McShane, we successfully challenged ICE’s unlawful use of GPS ankle monitoring in defiance of a judge’s order of release from immigration detention on bond without any further conditions.

(3/5) In Ventura Martinez v. Trump, we freed a longtime Maryland resident and pillar of his community from detention, stopping the government from applying a new sweeping interpretation of law that would expand mandatory detention to millions of people.

(4/5) In Savane v. Francis, we freed a 22-year-old asylum seeker arrested without any notice of the reason why and locked in detention for months in violation of the Constitution, reinforcing that ICE can’t detain people indefinitely without justification.

(5/5) I’m so proud of our team and our partners for their tireless work defending human rights in the courts and beyond. Each of these victories is a reminder of what’s possible when we stand up for the rule of law and human dignity.

(1/4) A UN review of the US govt's human rights record opened today w/out the US in the room. A State Dept. spokesperson defended the absence, saying, "as primary champions of individual liberties, we will not be lectured about our human rights record."

(1/4) BREAKING: A new investigation by @theintercept.com exposes horrific medical neglect inside New York’s largest ICE prison. “I shouldn’t have lost my fingers,” one person held there said in response to ICE's failure to get him the care a doctor prescribed.

Calling all student filmmakers! Submissions are now open for our 2026 Speak Truth to Power Video Contest. Winning films will be featured at a special showcase during the Tribeca Festival in New York City! 🔗 Submit your 3-5 minute film by May 6, 2026, at 11:59 pm ET ➡️ rfkhro.org/3DTak9N

(1/2) VICTORY: @nipnlg.bsky.social, @acluoflouisiana.bsky.social, and RFK Human Rights secured the release of 18-year-old Carlos Guerra Leon after his unlawful, months-long detention in a Louisiana ICE facility.

(1/2) Did you know that between 2006 and 2025, over 1,800 journalists have been killed in direct connection to their work? Roughly 9 out of 10 cases, or 90%, remain in impunity to this day.

Spooky season is officially here! 🎃 👻 Happy Halloween from all of us at @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social.

🗣️ Submissions are now open for our 2026 Book & Journalism Awards! 🗣️ To be eligible, submissions must have been published, aired, or broadcast in 2025. Submit your entries by January 30, 2026, at 11:59 PM ET ➡️ rfkhro.org/3JUsOX5

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to cast your vote and help us take home this year’s Anthem Community Voice Award! ➡️ Search for our entry & vote here: celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting...

(1/5) After months of unlawful detention following a federal court order granting her release, Larysa Kostak, a 50-year-old Ukrainian asylum seeker and longtime Brooklyn resident, is finally free.

(1/5) In its rush to hire new agents, ICE has hired 200+ recruits that later had to be dismissed for failing basic requirements & posing safety risks, including one recruit charged w/ strong-arm robbery & battery stemming from a domestic violence incident.

(1/3) Deplorable. ICE is detaining pregnant people, even after they inform the officers of their pregnancy, in violation of agency guidance and federal regulations.

(2/3) One woman delivered a stillborn baby, alone, in the bathroom of her housing unit, after staff ignored her pleas for help. Another suffered a dangerous infection after a miscarriage due to ICE’s medical neglect. And the list goes on.

(3/3) We wrote a letter to ICE leadership detailing this horrific abuse and urging them to comply with federal regulations and ICE’s own policies. Help spread the word and read our letter ⬇️.

(1/2) BREAKING: More than a dozen pregnant people detained in Louisiana and Georgia describe being shackled by ICE, placed in solitary confinement, and denied adequate medical care, in violation of agency guidance and federal regulations.

There is still time to register for our upcoming book club featuring @staceyabrams.com and her latest novel, Coded Justice! 🗓️ Wednesday, October 22 ⏲️ 3:00pm ET 🔗 Register: rfkhro.org/4gVmJJw

(1/4) Umu Thoronka, a journalist from #SierraLeone, was fired from her job after posting a TikTok deemed critical of the president. But Umu’s case is not an isolated incident. Her dismissal follows years of sexual harassment within the media industry. 🔗 More: chriswizo.substack.com/p/wimsal-con...