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TO ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS SWITZERLAND
We are dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights for all through education, advocacy, and litigation, striving for a world where everyone can exercise their fundamental freedoms. As an independent, Swiss-certified non-profit, all donations directly support our education initiative "Speak Truth To Power." This initiative empowers people to learn, advocate, and act for universal human rights and social justice.
Explore our work and join us in advancing human dignity and tolerance.
RFK LEGACY GALA 2025
November 7, 2025 @ PARK HYATT ZURICH
Join Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Switzerland Founder & Chairman Dr. Christoph Karlo, Mexican-American human rights activist and 2025 laureate Librada Paz as well as former President of Switzerland and 2025 laureate Adolf Ogi, special guests Federico Soldati and DJ Carol Fernandez, human rights activists, members of the Kennedy Family and the board of trustees for a dedicated charity evening in support of the projects and initiatives of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in Switzerland.
Adolf Ogi
2025 RFK Legacy Award Laureate
Adolf Ogi is a former President of Switzerland and long-standing advocate for peace and human dignity. After serving in the Swiss Federal Council, he became the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace. A former board member of RFK Human Rights Switzerland, he continues to champion sport as a bridge for inclusion, empowerment, and conflict resolution worldwide.
Librada Paz
2025 RFK Legacy Award Laureate
Librada Paz is a Mexican-American farmworker rights activist who, at age 15, crossed from Oaxaca into the United States to work in the fields. She overcame years of hard labor, harassment, and abuse to earn a degree in mechanical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. Through her leadership with the Rural & Migrant Ministry, she helped secure essential protections—like access to drinking water and restrooms—for migrant agricultural workers in New York.
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
OUR Human Rights education initiative
The Speak Truth to Power program is a human rights education initiative that uses storytelling, interactive learning, and educational resources to provide students with the knowledge they need to advance human rights. The program includes an illustrated text book, a photo exhibition, and a theatre play, all centred around the stories of national & international human rights defenders.
The program builds educator capacity, integrates social-emotional learning, and encourages mindful action. The resources available include lesson plans, video vignettes, dedicated events, workshops and more, and have been used by over 80,000 educators reaching over 2 million students worldwide.
The program is available free-of-charge for schools in Switzerland and offers teachers suggestions for integrating human rights into their curriculum.
THE TIME FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IS NOW
Why support human rights education through Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in A Country like Switzerland?
Human rights education is essential for creating a world where everyone's dignity and well-being are respected. By supporting RFK Human Rights in Switzerland, you can help ensure that individuals and communities have access to the knowledge and tools they need to advocate for their rights and hold their governments accountable. Through our programs, including the Speak Truth to Power curriculum, students, educators, and activists can learn about human rights issues and how to effectively promote change in their communities.
Your support makes a difference in building a more just and peaceful society for all.
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS
Since 1968
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights was born in 1968 out of a simple yet powerful idea: that each of us has the ability—and the responsibility—to shape a more just and peaceful world. It carries forward Robert F. Kennedy’s vision and unfinished work, turning his call for justice, courage, and compassion into action.
From the very beginning, our mission has been to defend the space where human dignity thrives: the freedom to gather, to speak, to organize, and to stand up without fear. These are the rights that give life to all others—and they remain at the heart of everything we do.
In 2015, inspired by this enduring vision, Dr. Christoph Karlo founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation Switzerland. Here, the work continues—amplifying voices, protecting freedoms, and ensuring that Robert F. Kennedy’s dream of a fairer, more humane world lives on.
Together, we can keep this dream alive. Your support helps us protect fundamental freedoms, give voice to the silenced, and build a future rooted in justice and human dignity.
“Our answer is the world’s hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...”