MEDIA
Media For media inquiries, please contact: Nathalie Walker Co-Director & Attorney (504) 799-3060 nwalker@ehumanrights.org
Month: September 2018
Protecting the Human Right to Return with Dignity & Justice After Hurricane Katrina
In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Gulf Coast reconstruction policies by the Bush Administration have created a housing crisis that unjustly prolongs the displacement of thousands of predominantly African American residents, subjected workers to discrimination, exploitation, and abuse, prioritized the funding of charter schools that can exercise selective admissions criteria to exclude students,
Defending and Advancing the Human Right to a Healthy Environment
Across the United States, people of color and poor communities have been subjected to toxic pollution and other environmental hazards in the places where we live, work, and play. The U.S. government has established a complex environmental regulatory system that facilitates and perpetuates environmental racism and injustice. By permitting toxic and hazardous facilities to operate
OUR WORK
Our Work Defending and Advancing the Human Right to a Healthy Environment AEHR works to achieve environmental justice by advocating for the human right to a healthy environment, as well as the human rights to life, health, racial equality, and security of one’s home. Protecting the Human Right to Return with Dignity & Justice After
ABOUT
About The founders and co-directors of AEHR are Monique Harden and Nathalie Walker, attorneys whose combined twenty-five years of legal services, community organizing support, and broad spectrum of public advocacy activities have helped numerous communities achieve important environmental justice victories. AEHR is guided by a Board of Directors and Advisory Committee comprised of skilled advocates
Rayburn House Office Building – Room 2253, Washington, DC
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12noon Rayburn House Office Building – Room 2253, Washington, DC AEHR to Brief Congress on Innovations in Environmental & Health Policy A Congressional Briefing Sponsored by U.S. Representative Donna Edwards (D-MD) The growing interest in moving our country towards a green economy is an important opportunity for Congress to not
National Group of Investors to Examine the Environmental Impacts of Industrial Corporations on Louisiana Communities
For Immediate Release June 4, 2009 National Group of Investors to Examine the Environmental Impacts of Industrial Corporations on Louisiana Communities WHO: Advocates for Environmental Human Rights Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility Trillium Asset Management Corporation Mossville Environmental Action Now United Houma Nation Deep South Center for Environmental Justice The Subra Company Gulf Restoration Network
New Report Highlights Unique Challenges to Census 2010 in the Gulf Coast
Report to be Released on the Four-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina August 24, 2009 New Report Highlights Unique Challenges to Census 2010 in the Gulf Coast NEW ORLEANS — On Monday, August 24 at 11:00 AM CT, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) will hold a press conference to release a new report, “Counting in
How President Obama Can Protect Our Common Home
How President Obama Can Protect Our Common Home October 12, 2009 by Monique Harden, Co-Director & Attorney Advocates for Environmental Human Rights Submission to The New Orleans Tribune Our environment is our common home, and in this home we all live with massive coastal erosion, inadequate flood protection, and sea level rise with the threat of
New Orleans Group’s Climate Change Advertisement in Copenhagen Newspaper Puts the Spotlight on the Gulf Region
d 10 steps that President Obama can take to protect the Gulf Region and other communities vulnerable to climate change. The 10 Steps for Climate Action were developed by AEHR and a coalition of diverse organizations based in the Gulf Region. “We want to bring attention to the human suffering already taking place from disastrous
