# Human rights advocate and the widow of former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Ethel, has passed away at the age of 96. She had been hospitalised after suffering a stroke last Thursday. Kennedy founded the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights after her husband’s assassination and advocated for gun control and human rights. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama in 2014. President Joe Biden has described Kennedy as a matriarch of optimism and moral courage and an emblem of resilience.
Human rights activist Ethel Kennedy has passed away at 96