Environment
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Remarks before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Senate
The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
The major danger from air pollution is one of health. Most of us know that carbon monoxide in a closed garage can kill us but fewer know of the indirect dangers.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
We can make progress in our efforts to control air pollution only if we establish a Federal safety code for the major pollutants.
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Statement to the Senate
In looking forward toward legislation, I believe that major emphasis must be given to air pollution research and development. For this is an area where a major investment will pay dividends.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
On a trip to Latin America last year, I saw people in Recife, in the poorest part of Brazil, who ate crabs which lived off the garbage that the people themselves threw in the shallow water near their shabby homes.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
The time for studies is past. The time to apply what we already know is here. Economic progress may reduce cost rates. But we all pay for air pollution now, every day.
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40th Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award goes to Xinka Parliament, in the name of peaceful resistance
Tags Share On Tuesday June 6, the same day as the 55th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy also marked the 40th Human Rights Award bestowed by his namesake organization. This year’s honoree? The Xinka Parliament, the official representative of the Xinka People, and the second-largest Indigenous nation in Guatemala. Among the distinguished…
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International organizations Stand in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of Brazil
Tags Share Washington D.C., London, Rio de Janeiro,June 7, 2023 On May 30, the Lower House of the Brazilian Congress passed Bill 490/2007, which aims to establish restrictions on the demarcation process of Indigenous lands. These territories hold critical importance in safeguarding the Amazon rainforest and other Brazilian biomes, as well as the rights and…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Human Rights Award Laureate
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the Guatemalan organization Parlamento del Pueblo Xinka (Parliament of the Xinka People) as the recipient of its 40th annual Human Rights Award. A ceremony honoring Xinka Parliament will take place Tuesday, June 6 at 11 am in the Kennedy Caucus…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights anuncia al ganador del Premio de Derechos Humanos de 2023
Tags Share WASHINGTON, D.C., 15 de mayo de 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights anuncia hoy la selección de la organización guatemalteca Parlamento del Pueblo Xinka como ganadora de su 40º Premio Anual de Derechos Humanos. La ceremonia de homenaje al Parlamento Xinka tendrá lugar el martes 6 de junio a las 11 de…
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A call to strengthen protect mechanisms for environmental defenders on International Earth Day
Tags Share Being an environmental human rights defender is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Every day, government authorities, companies and other non-state actors seek to silence environmental defenders on the frontlines of the global climate and environmental movement through unwarranted persecution, harassment, detention and even murder. As we commemorate International Earth…
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Alessandra Korap Munduruku: ‘I will never stop fighting and defending my river’
Tags Share Each year in April the world celebrates Earth Day, but the need to really tackle environmental protection has never been more urgent than now. While States and businesses continue failing to articulate and follow through on actions to address the climate crisis and protect from its impact the communities most affected by it,…
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