Environment
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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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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights names clean energy pioneer Michael Polsky 2022 Ripple of Hope Award Laureate
Tags Share New York, NY, October 13, 2022 —Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced that Michael Polsky, Founder and CEO of Invenergy, has been named a 2022 Ripple of Hope Award laureate. Polsky will be honored alongside fellow laureates Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; Frank Baker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris; Prince Harry and…
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Address at Indianapolis, Indiana
Tags Share Crime is an issue that is difficult and dangerous; easily susceptible to illusory and false programs; an issue which threatens to divert us from the road to a better nation into blind alleys of suspicion and mistrust. So let us examine not just the danger of crime but what we can do together…
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Air pollution control conference
Tags Share 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. And whenever I tell this story to Americans, the reaction is: How sad,…
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On rebuilding a sense of community
Tags Share Even as the drive toward bigness [and] concentration…has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid; in overcrowding and pollution of the atmosphere, and impersonality; in growth of organizations, particularly government, so large and powerful that individual effort and…
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Solving the Urban Crisis: Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization
Tags Share Each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, interrupted education and stunted lives, and other ills of the new urban nation—congestion and the filth, danger, and purposelessness which afflict all but the very rich and the very lucky. To speak of…
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Fashion and consumption
Tags Share With fast fashion’s status as the second most polluting industry (second only to the oil industry) and its 2.1 billion tons of annual carbon emissions making up at least 4% of the world’s total, the environmental impact our clothes have on the planet can’t be overlooked. While efforts to move towards sustainability have…
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Arctic
Tags Share Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at three times the global average, resulting in drastic impacts on local communities, especially indigenous groups. Rising sea levels, extreme temperature events, and depletion of natural resources have resulted in a human rights crisis. The Arctic Council, comprised of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and…
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