Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award

Human rights award

The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award was created in 1984 by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, now known as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, to honor individuals around the world who have shown great courage and have made a significant contribution to human rights in their country.

In addition to receiving a financial award, laureates can partner with the RFK Center on projects to advance their human rights work, benefiting from the resources and technologies at the foundation's disposal. Some have achieved their goals, some are in exile from their home country. The majority continue to live in their home country and work with the support of the center to establish the human rights they are working for.

Since 1984, awards have been given to 37 individuals and organizations, from 24 countries.

The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation also presents Ripple of Hope Awards annually to business, entertainment, and activist leaders. The name of the award is inspired by Kennedy's Ripple of Hope speech in 1966.[1][2] They first presented the award in 2007.[3]

## Laureates[edit]

Year  | Laureate[4][5][6] | Country or organization

|
|

2023  | Parlamento del Pueblo Xinka[7] |  Guatemala
2022  | Maximilienne Ngo Mbe |  Cameroon
Felix Agbor Balla
2021  | Guerline Jozef  |  United States
2020  | Alessandra Korap Munduruku  |  Brazil
2019  | La Unión del Pueblo Entero  |  United States
Angry Tías & Abuelas of the Río Grande Valley
Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee
2018  | Color of Change |  United States
International Indigenous Youth Council
March For Our Lives
United We Dream
2017  | Alfredo Romero |  Venezuela
2016  | Just Leadership USA |  United States
Andrea C. James
2015  | Natalia Taubina |  Russia
2014  | Adilur Rahman Khan |  Bangladesh
2013  | Ragia Omran |  Egypt
2012  | Librada Paz |  United States
2011  | Frank Mugisha |  Uganda
2010  | Abel Barrera Hernández |  Mexico
2009  | Magodonga Mahlangu |  Zimbabwe
Women of Zimbabwe Arise
2008  | Aminatou Haidar |  Western Sahara
2007  | Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah |  Sudan
2006  | Sonia Pierre |  Dominican Republic
2005  | Stephen Bradberry |  United States
2004  | Delphine Djiraibe |  Chad
2003  | Coalition of Immokalee Workers |  United States
2002  | Loune Viaud |  Haiti
2001  | Darci Frigo |  Brazil
2000  | Martin Macwan |  India
1999  | Michael Kpakala Francis |  Liberia
1998  | Berenice Celeyta |  Colombia
Gloria Florez
Jaime Prieto
Mario Calixto
1997  | Sezgin Tanrıkulu |  Turkey
Şenal Sarıhan
1996  | Anonymous  |  Sudan
1995  | Kailash Satyarthi |  India
Nguyen Dan Que |  Vietnam
Doan Viet Hoat
1994  | Wei Jingsheng |  China
Ren Wanding
1993  | Bambang Widjojanto |  Indonesia
1992  | Chakufwa Chihana |  Malawi
1991  | Avigdor Feldman |  Israel
Raji Sourani |  Palestine
1990  | Amilcar Mendez Urizar |  Guatemala
1989  | Fang Lizhi |  China
1988  | Gibson Kamau Kuria |  Kenya
1987  | Kim Geun-tae |  South Korea
In Jae-keun
1986  | Zbigniew Bujak |  Poland
Adam Michnik
1985  | Allan Boesak |  South Africa
Beyers Naude
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
1984  | CoMadres |  El Salvador

## Ripple of Hope Award[edit]

Year  | Laureate  | Country

|
|

2023[8] | Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust (Peter and Pamela Barbey, and their son Matt)  |  United States
Fran Drescher
January 6th Select Committee (Representatives Aguilar, Cheney, Kinzinger, Lofgren, Luria, Murphy, Raskin, Thompson, and Schiff)
2022[9] | Frank Baker  |  United States
Brian Moynihan
Michael Polsky  |  Ukraine
United States
Bill Russell |  United States
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex &
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex |  United Kingdom
United States
Volodymyr Zelenskyy |  Ukraine
2021[10] | Stacey Abrams |  United States
José E. Feliciano
Deven Parekh
Hans Vestberg |  Sweden
2020[2] | Anthony Fauci |  United States
Dolores Huerta
Colin Kaepernick
Dan Schulman
Dan Springer
2019[11] | Nancy Pelosi |  United States
J. K. Rowling†  |  United Kingdom
Wendy Abrams |  United States
Glen Tullman
2018[12] | Barack Obama |  United States
David Zaslav
Phil Murphy
Bruce D. Broussard
2017[13] | Harry Belafonte |  United States
Alex Gorsky
Hamdi Ulukaya |  Turkey
2016[14][15] | Howard Schultz |  United States
Joe Biden
Scott Minerd
2015[16][17] | Roger Altman |  United States
Marianna Vardinoyannis |  Greece
Tim Cook |  United States
John Lewis
2014[18][19] | Donato Tramuto |  United States
Hillary Clinton
Robert De Niro
Tony Bennett
2013[3] | Muhammad Yunus |  Bangladesh
John Boyer  |  United States
2012[20][21] | Taylor Swift |  United States
Vincent Mai
2011[3] | Al Gore |  United States
Dennis Mathisen
2010[3] | George Clooney |  United States
Robert F. Smith
Marc Spilker
2009[3] | Bono |  Ireland
Wyclef Jean |  Haiti
2008[3] | Desmond Tutu |  South Africa
Clive Davis |  United States
Afsaneh Beschloss |  Iran
2007[3] | Bill Clinton |  United States
Bob Pittman

†=Recipient returned their award.[22][23]

## See also[edit]

* List of human rights organisations
* Day of Affirmation Address

## References[edit]

1. ^ Kim, Allen (July 29, 2020). "Kaepernick and Fauci will be honored as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award laureates". CNN. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
2. ^ a b "RFK Human Rights Honors 2020 Ripple of Hope Award Laureates". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
3. ^ a b c d e f g "Our Past Laureates". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Archived from the original on August 21, 2021. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
4. ^ "Human Rights Award". Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Archived from the original on October 23, 2014.
5. ^ "Venezuela's Alfredo Romero named 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. August 7, 2017. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
6. ^ "Our Lareates". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
7. ^ https://rfkhumanrights.org/awards/human-rights-award-submit-2024/parlamento-del-pueblo-xinka Retrieved 11 December 2023
8. ^ "2023 Ripple of Hope Award Gala". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
9. ^ "2022 Ripple of Hope Award Gala". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
10. ^ "2021 Ripple of Hope Award Gala". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
11. ^ "Our 2019 Ripple of Hope Awards Gala is December 12!". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
12. ^ "2018 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Laureates Announced". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
13. ^ "2017 Robert F. Kennedy Annual Report" (PDF). Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
14. ^ Diamond, Jamie (November 28, 2016). "US Vice President Joe Biden, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and Guggenheim Partners' Scott Minerd to Receive RFK Human Rights' 2016 Ripple of Hope Award". Politico. Archived from the original on August 20, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
15. ^ Westcott, Lucy (December 7, 2016). "Joe Biden compares 2016 to 1968". Newsweek. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
16. ^ Gordon, Amanda (December 9, 2015). "Tim Cook Says the World Needs Robert F. Kennedy-Style Optimism". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on August 20, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
17. ^ "Tim Cook Accepts 2015 Ripple of Hope Award at RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights". MacRumors. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
18. ^ "Dunkirk native receives Robert F. Kennedy 'Ripple of Hope' Award". observertoday.com. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
19. ^ Gallagher, Noel K. (December 17, 2014). "Former Ogunquit selectman gets Kennedy Ripple of Hope award". Press Herald. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
20. ^ "Taylor Swift Honored With RFK Center's Ripple Of Hope Award". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
21. ^ Miller, Julie (December 4, 2012). "The Kennedy Family Fêtes Taylor Swift (But Where Was Ethel?)". Vanity Fair. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
22. ^ "JK Rowling returns award from group linked to Kennedy family". AP NEWS. April 20, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
23. ^ "JK Rowling returns award after Kerry Kennedy criticism". BBC News. August 28, 2020. Retrieved August 20, 2021.

## External links[edit]

* Official Website
* RFK Human Rights Award Ceremony on PBS, 1989

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Robert F. Kennedy

November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968

* 64th United States Attorney General, 1961–1964
* United States senator from New York, 1965–1968

Life|

* 1948 Palestine visit
* Senate Committee investigation of Labor and Management
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* ExComm
* Civil rights
* Freedom Riders
* Voter Education Project
* Baldwin–Kennedy meeting
* 1964 Democratic National Convention
* Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
* Mississippi Delta tour
* Kennedy Compound
* Hickory Hill home

Electoral|

* 1964 U.S. Senate election
* 1968 presidential campaign
* primaries
* Boiler Room Girls

Speeches|

* Law Day Address (1961)
* Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
* Conflict in Vietnam and at Home (1968)
* University of Kansas (1968)
* Ball State (1968)
* On the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)
* "On the Mindless Menace of Violence" (1968)

Books|

* The Enemy Within (1960)
* The Pursuit of Justice (1964)
* To Seek a Newer World (1967)
* Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969)

Assassination|

* Sirhan Sirhan
* Ambassador Hotel
* Conspiracy theories
* Gravesite

Legacy and
memorials|

* Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building
* Robert F. Kennedy silver dollar
* Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
* Human Rights Award
* Journalism Award
* Book Award
* Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
* Brooklyn Memorial
* Landmark for Peace Memorial
* Kennedy–King College
* Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools
* Robert F. Kennedy Bridge

Popular
culture|

* Robert F. Kennedy in media
* Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963 documentary)
* Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968 documentary)
* "Abraham, Martin and John" (1968 song)
* The Missiles of October (1974 docudrama)
* Kennedy (1983 miniseries)
* Blood Feud (1983 film)
* Prince Jack (1985 film)
* Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985 miniseries)
* Hoover vs. The Kennedys (1987 miniseries)
* Thirteen Days (2000 film)
* RFK (2002 film)
* Bobby (2006 film)
* RFK Must Die (2007 documentary)
* The Kennedys (2011 miniseries)
* Ethel (2012 documentary)
* Killing Kennedy (2013 film)
* Jackie (2016 film)
* Bobby Kennedy for President (2018 miniseries)

Family,
family tree|

* Ethel Skakel (wife)
* Kathleen Kennedy (daughter)
* Joseph Patrick Kennedy (son)
* Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (son)
* Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (son)
* Kerry Kennedy (daughter)
* Christopher G. Kennedy (son)
* Max Kennedy (son)
* Douglas Harriman Kennedy (son)
* Rory Kennedy (daughter)
* Maeve Kennedy McKean (granddaughter)
* Joseph P. Kennedy III (grandson)
* Max Kennedy Jr. (grandson)
* Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (father)
* Rose Kennedy (mother)
* Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (brother)
* John F. Kennedy (brother
* presidency)
* Rosemary Kennedy (sister)
* Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish (sister)
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver (sister)
* Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister)
* Jean Kennedy Smith (sister)
* Ted Kennedy (brother)
* Patrick J. Kennedy (grandfather)
* Mary Augusta Kennedy (grandmother)
* John F. Fitzgerald (grandfather)

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