Robert Bank. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.
Robert Bank. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

Promoting Human Rights in the Developing World, with American Jewish World Service's Robert Bank

May 2, 2018

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Growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa, Robert Bank cared about social injustice from an early age. Today he travels the world for AJWS, working with local activists on a range of issues such as women's rights in India and LGBT rights in Uganda. "My job—very much like a conductor of an orchestra in some way—is to ensure that every instrument has its beautiful voice heard and that this melody is given the opportunity to really soar."

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