RFK Partners for Human Rights
The RFK Center’s human rights advocacy programs focus on the power of the individual, working through alliances and organizations, to generate change.
The only international human rights program of its kind, RFK Partners for Human Rights bolsters the efficacy of human rights defenders through sustained, strategic laureate partnerships and through laureate-to-laureate projects.
Laureates
2011: Frank Mugisha, Uganda
2010: Abel Barrera Hernández, Mexico
2009: Magodonga Mahlangu and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), Zimbabwe
2008: Aminatou Haidar, Western Sahara
2007: Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, Sudan
2006: Sonia Pierre, Dominican Republic
2005: Stephen Bradberry, New Orleans
2004: Delphine Djiraibe, Chad
2003: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, United States
2002: Loune Viaud, Haiti
2001: Darci Frigo, Brazil
2000: Martin Macwan, India
1999: Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, Liberia
1998: Berenice Celeyta, Gloria Florez, Jaime Prieto & Mario Calixto, Colombia
1996: Anonymous
1995: Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, Viet Nam
1994: Wei Jingsheng
1994: Ren Wanding, China
1993: Bambang Widjojanto, Indonesia
1992: Chakufwa Chihana, Malawi
1991: Avigdor Feldman, Israel
1990: Amilcar Mendez Urizar, Guatemala
1989: Fang Lizhi, China
1988: Gibson Kamau Kuria, Kenya
1987: Kim Keun Tae & In Jae Keun, South Korea
1986: Adam Michnik, Poland
1985: Allan Boesak, Beyers Naude, & Winnie Mandela, South Africa
1984: CoMadres, El Salvador
Twitter
rfkcenter : #RFK Laureate @frankmugisha of SMUG urges all allies to take action against the re-tabled Anti-Homosexuality Bill
http://t.co/hv789qPU rfkcenter : Join us in helping RFK #HumanRights Award Laureate #SoniaPierre's family in the #DominicanRepublic
http://t.co/6EKXo1ZU rfkcenter : A photo tribute to 2006 RFK #HumanRights Award Laureate #SoniaPierre of the #DominicanRepublic
http://t.co/fgU2OXfC rfkcenter : Follow #HumanRights Laureate @frankmugisha & Wilson Fellow @wade_mcmullen for info about shutting down of #LGBTI workshop in #Uganda today
rfkcenter : MT “@wade_mcmullen: #Uganda Govt using sodomy laws to say #LGBT status is "illegal", clearly a grave rights violation
http://t.co/uMcVOvKE