In 1964 Benedict was instrumental in providing a used car for Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, the three young civil
rights workers beaten and murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. — the most notorious crime committed during the Sixties» voting rights drive across the deep south.
The
rights group recommended the two countries instead work together to pursue reforms, adding that, «Kuwait should confront the outcry over deaths,
beatings, and rapes of domestic
workers by taking immediate steps to reform the kafala system, which traps
workers with abusive employers.»