2012 RFK Human Rights Award Should Spur Rights for Farmworkers

(2012-07-09) This morning, 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Laureate and farmworkers rights activist Librada Paz was highlighted in an NY Daily News editorial, 'New Yorker's human rights award should spur long-overdue rights for farmworkers.' The article stresses how the prestige of the award combined with the RFK Center's dedication to a six-year partnership with Ms. Paz should push Albany to pass a bill granting farmworkers the rights afforded everyone else.

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