“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966

1988: GIBSON KAMAU KURIA, KENYA

Championing for Kenya's legal and constitutional reform.

Gibson Kamau Kuria, the 1988 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate, is a leading human rights attorney striving for constitutional and legal reform and the elimination of corruption and human rights abuses in Kenya. After the collapse of Kenya's authoritarian rule in 2002, Dr. Kuria established the International Centre for Constitutional Research and Governance (ICCRG), a non-profit international organization that promotes, researches, and educates about democratization, constitutionalism and human rights protection.

Logo photo: Stanley Tretick, Sidebar photo: Bill Eppridge