Environment
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Defenders in the Climate Emergency: The Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Tags Share On April 26th, RFKHR partnered with the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Fundeps to hold a virtual side event at the Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Escazú Agreement. The event, titled “Defenders in the Climate Emergency: The Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,”…
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RFK Human Rights and Partner Organizations File Written Statement with International Court of Justice on Climate Change and Environmental Defenders
Tags Share On May 6, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, Amazon Watch, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD), ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), and the International Service for…
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Las personas defensoras en la emergencia climática: la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos / Defenders in the Climate Emergency: the Advisory Opinion of the IACHR
Share Actualmente, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos see encuentra estudiando la solicitud de Opinión Consultiva (OC) presentada por Colombia y Chile, a través de la cual se buscan aclarar las obligaciones de los Estados en materia de derechos humanos en el contexto de la emergencia climática. Este procedimiento de OC ha generado gran interés…
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Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Tags Share “If the United States wants to claim that they are the leader of the free world and free speech, they have to answer for what’s going on in Atlanta.” Speaking with Truthout, staff attorney Delia Addo-Yobo explains why Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is requesting an investigation into the death of Manuel Esteban…
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Human Rights Groups Ask International Commission to Investigate Police Killing of U.S. Environmental Activist
Tags Share New York, NY, April 8, 2024 – Last week, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, The Southern Center for Human Rights, and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requesting a Department of Justice investigation into the 2023 murder of Manuel Esteban Páez…
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Groups call for US inquiry into police killing of ‘Cop City’ protester
Tags Share In April 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requesting an investigation into the 2023 murder of Manuel Esteban Páez Terán (known as “Tortuguita”), an environmental activist who was killed by police while peacefully protesting the construction of Atlanta’s “Cop City” facility. Speaking with…
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Manuel Esteban Paez Teran v. United States: Justice for murder of environmental activist
This case seeks reparative justice for the extrajudicial killing of Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán, the first environmental activist in modern U.S. history to have been shot and killed by police during a protest.
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Exploring the intersection of human rights and climate change
Tags Share The climate emergency has left no corner of the globe untouched, from desertification in Africa to the destruction of Indigenous lands in Latin America. As new climate crises arise, how are activists and attorneys using legal strategies to safeguard human rights? On January 25, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the…
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Combating Climate Change and Protecting Human Rights and Environmental Defenders: a Cross-Regional Discussion
Share The climate emergency is the defining crisis of our time. In response to the climate crisis, environmental defenders are protecting our planet in a myriad of ways, including through protest against and peaceful resistance to extractive industries or through traditional farming practices, journalism, lawyering, land management, and various other means. At the same time,…
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RFK Human Rights files amicus brief on climate change, seeks protection for environmental defenders
Tags Share On December 18, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Amazon Watch, Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy (REDLAD), ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), and International Service for Human Rights (ISHR),…
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Statement at the Federal Water Pollution Control Enforcement Conference for Moriches and Great South Bays Long Island, New York
As families move out of our cities into attractive towns and villages, they bring with them requirements that these small communities have not faced in the past.
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Address at the New York State Association of Towns, New York City
All around us is evidence of the urban crisis of our time. The streets are clogged with traffic. The air is heavy with smoke. Our water is in short supply. And a short subway ride on almost any line— when the subways are running— will bring us to the crowded slums of the city, to…
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