RFK Spain
Projects
Education, memory, and leadership to defend human rights.
We currently focus our work on three main areas: training teachers and educators, human rights education (children from age 5, young people, and adults), and the play Voices from the Darkness, based on Kerry Kennedy’s book Speak Truth to Power, aimed at raising awareness of the importance of respect for human rights and justice. It has been staged in theaters around the world by professional actors, high school and university students, and representatives of public and private institutions. In the short term, we also want to develop projects related to immigration and programs that contribute to gender equality, among many other issues.
How we work
Learn, become aware, act, and transform.
Learning
Through the real stories of human rights defenders, to understand dignity and justice from lived experience.
Awareness
A global perspective that helps recognize human rights as a responsibility shared by the whole of society.
Action
Mindful and committed: bringing values into the classroom, onto the stage, and into the community to move from reflection to action.
Change
The ultimate goal: young people able to act and make a real difference in their surroundings and in the world.
More about our programs
Training
Teach Truth to Power
Our TTTP (Teach Truth to Power) program offers training to teachers and educators so they can deliver Speak Truth to Power, our human rights education program, at their schools. We provide the tools needed to implement the program and support them throughout the process; once it is up and running, we offer ongoing support.
Human rights education
Speak Truth to Power
Our STTP (Speak Truth to Power) program is available in Spanish or English and is designed for children from age 5, young people, and adults. It has been taught for several years in schools in Madrid, and we intend to implement it in other regions of Spain.
Theater
Voices from the Darkness
"Voices from the Darkness," a play written by the Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman, is a key component of the Speak Truth to Power program. It is based on the book published by Kerry Kennedy featuring the more than fifty interviews she conducted with human rights defenders from around the world, and it has been staged by internationally renowned actors, students, and figures from public and private institutions.
Young people
Student Leadership Council
The mission of Robert F. Kennedy Spain is grounded in preserving the values that Senator Robert F. Kennedy believed in: the defense of human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action.
We are committed to the values of peace and respect, to nurturing the talent of children and adolescents, to values-based education, social cohesion, and respect for the diversity of every people and every person.
Recognition
Bilbao Balioen Hiria Awards
The Bilbao Balioen Hiria Awards, promoted by the Bilbao City Council, recognize organizations and projects that foster the values set out in the city’s Charter of Values. In collaboration with the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center Spain, a special award has been created to give visibility to and recognize young people’s commitment to human rights, social justice, and those shared values. In its first joint edition, it honored the audiovisual project "Nacemos donde queremos," by Kamanga Influencers Club.
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