Environment
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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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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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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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Speech at the International Water Quality Symposium, Washington, D.C.
We must clean up the streams and lakes. In addition to obvious reasons of health and recreation for doing so, the fact is that this is the most economical way to get at significant sources of water. The Hudson River pours 20 billion gallons a day into the Atlantic, all of which is too polluted…
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Statement Before the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, Syracuse, New York
There is no easy solution to our water pollution problems.
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Statement on Long Island Wetlands Bill, Delivered Before the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Scientists have pointed out that 60% of the seafood taken from water surrounding the United States is dependent on coastal bays and marshes for their existence
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The plight of the cities—the physical decay and the human despair that pervades them—is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Even as in the drive toward bigness and concentration, the city has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid
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