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Kerry Kennedy
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Kerry Kennedy is author of Speak Truth to Power and founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. She is the chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council.

Blog Entries by Kerry Kennedy

A New Approach to Terrorism

Posted January 30, 2009 | 03:00 PM (EST)

It is hard to believe more than seven years have passed since the Bush administration launched the unfortunately named Global War on Terror -- insisting that any country wanting to remain an ally sign up.

We have had time to reflect on that strategy, and all evidence...

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Immokalee Farmworkers Bring Down the Golden Arches

Posted April 17, 2007 | 05:01 PM (EST)

On behalf of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, I congratulate the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in their historic victory reaching an agreement with McDonald's to assure the human rights of farmworkers working in McDonald's supply chain.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, this small group of farmworkers from southwest...

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Argentina, Burma, and International Solidarity

Posted December 21, 2006 | 06:10 PM (EST)

NEW YORK, Dec (IPS) The military junta that ran Argentina during the late 1970s and early 1980s thought nothing of keeping its naval officers in close proximity to the thousands of dissidents tortured and executed for opposing the regime.

Just how close became shockingly clear to me last year during...

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Speak Truth to Power

Posted June 20, 2005 | 03:45 PM (EST)

I spent several years interviewing human rights defenders around the world about the quality of courage for the book Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which has since grown into a theatrical presentation, a touring photographic exhibition, an education and advocacy packet, and an...

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