National Group of Investors to Examine the Environmental Impacts
of Industrial Corporations on Louisiana Communities
Friday, June 5, 2009 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. | The bus tour will depart from the Loews Hotel at 300 Poydras Street and continue to Mossville, LA. . . . Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (“AEHR”) will host a fact-finding mission on environmental justice for the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility ("ICCR"), which is holding its annual conference in New Orleans the week of June 2 - 5, 2009.
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From Katrina to Copenhagen: Promoting a Fair Climate Agenda
You are invited to attend!
Friday, April 17, 2009 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, followed by a reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm | Pan American Building located at 601 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA . . . Unite with social justice advocates, youth, women leaders, faith leaders, community members and environmentalists to magnify our call for equal access to just climate and energy policies that safeguard our natural resources and prioritize the most vulnerable communities.
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AEHR to Brief Congress on Innovations in Environmental & Health Policy
A Congressional Briefing Sponsored by U.S. Representative Donna Edwards (D-MD)
Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12noon | Rayburn House Office Building - Room 2253, Washington, DC . . . The growing interest in moving our country towards a green economy is an important opportunity for Congress to not only work on legislation that supports sustainable technologies and job creation, but to also re-examine the effectiveness of the environmental regulatory system. A critical question for the 111th Congress is whether a green economy can be achieved with the current environmental regulatory system.
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U.S. Human Rights Groups Decry the Bush Administration’s Whitewash Report to the United Nations on Racial Discrimination in America. Groups Call on the Obama Administration to Implement Recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
January 14, 2009 . . . The Bush administration’s last-minute report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was grossly inadequate and full of omissions, according to a coalition of human rights organizations. Instead of reporting on its implementation of recommendations issued by the Committee a year ago, the government yesterday submitted a report that attempts to whitewash the ongoing racial discrimination suffered by people of color in the United States.
READ MORE | READ KATRINA CERD SHADOW REPORT

AEHR Files Response to US Government’s Defense of Environmental Racism in Mossville, Louisiana: Legal Case Pending at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States
June 23, 2008 . . . On behalf of the African American residents of the historic community of Mossville in Louisiana, AEHR today filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights a detailed account of the human rights abuses suffered by residents as a consequence of governmental approvals that allow 14 industrial facilities to dump millions of pounds of toxic chemicals in the Mossville area every year. The filing includes a response to the US Government’s arguments that attempt to defend its flawed environmental regulatory system that perpetuates environmental racism and denies basic human rights in Mossville and other similarly situated communities of color. READ MORE

Louisiana Community Group to Expose Conoco Phillips’ Record of Environmental Racism Hidden from Investors at May 14th Shareholders’ Meeting
May 14, 2008 . . . African American residents of the historic Mossville community in Louisiana will be attending the May 14th Conoco Phillips shareholders meeting, where they will distribute copies of the report, Conoco Phillips: What It Passes on to the People of Mossville, Louisiana, and supporting a shareholder resolution that urges a corporate policy on community accountability. READ SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTION

UN Treaty Committee Urges US Government to Protect Human Rights on Race and Housing in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
March 7, 2008 . . . New Orleans groups representing a broad range of housing and urban planning professionals, housing advocates, faith-based organizations, and human rights groups introduce the decision by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that calls on the US government “to increase its efforts in order to facilitate the return of persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina to their homes” as well as “ensure genuine consultation and participation of persons displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the design and implementation of all decisions affecting them.” READ MORE