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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Gulf States Human Rights Working Group • Equity and Inclusion Campaign Greater New Orleans Organizer’s Roundtable • US Human Rights Network’s UPR Project January 25, 2010 Media Briefing – Tue., Jan. 26th at 6:30 pm Human Rights Consultation open to the media Wed., Jan. 27th from 9:00 – 9:30 am Contact: Nathalie Walker, AEHR/Gulf States
US Government to Take on Human Rights Recommendations November 9, 2010 by Monique Harden, Co-Director & Attorney Advocates for Environmental Human Rights Environmental Justice and Internally Displaced New Orleanians and Gulf Region Residents Are Part of UN Human Rights Council’s Review of the United States In a first-time review of the United States Government’s human
