John Heffernan
John Heffernan is the Executive Director of RFK Speak Truth To Power at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Heffernan brings to RFK Human Rights over 20 years of experience in development, human rights, humanitarian relief, and post-conflict reconstruction projects in the United States, Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe. He ran the United States Refugee Resettlement Office for the International Rescue Committee in Khartoum Sudan from 1991-1993 and then established the same operation in Zagreb, Croatia in 1995 for refugees fleeing Bosnia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 May 2017 Building human rights education through global teacher networks
John Heffernan
A few years ago, calling for a more robust worldwide embrace of human rights education by invoking the Holocaust, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra'ad said in a speech given at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: “Eight of the 15 people who planned the Holocaust in 1942...
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Worlds of Education 16 September 2016 Human rights begin in the classroomHuman rights begin in the classroom
John Heffernan