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Robert F. Kennedy boldly faced tough problems and challenged the comfortable and complacent. To keep his vision alive, his family and friends founded a living memorial in 1968. Today the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial is a nonprofit charitable organization that works to realize his dream of a peaceful and just world through domestic and international programs that work to empower the disadvantaged and oppressed, build our next generation of leaders, and tackle the toughest problems facing our society.

Every year, the RFK Memorial recognizes authors, journalists and human rights activists that have exposed injustice, often hidden from the view of mainstream society.

The Center for Human Rights of the RFK Memorial partners with human rights activists who, through years of dedication to righting social injustices in over 20 different countries, have made progress toward ending human rights violations.

The annual RFK Human Rights Award honors individuals who, at great risk, creatively and non-violently confront human rights violations. To date, 36 RFK Human Rights Award Laureates have been honored. Nominations are currently closed for the 2005 RFK Human Rights Award.

The Speak Truth to Power program seeks to bring human rights activists and their work into contact with ever-increasing audiences. The program grew out of Kerry Kennedy's book into a moving play, a stirring photographic exhibition, a PBS documentary film, and an educational packet.

Nicknamed the "Poor Man's Pulitzer", the RFK Journalism Award is given annually to honor professional and student journalists, photographers and cartoonists who ?prod our consciousness? and bring attention to the lives of the disadvantaged throughout the world.