Advocates for Environmental Human Rights

AEHR currently receives general operating support from the U.S. Human Rights Fund which helps support its US Human Rights and the Environment Project.  This project seeks to realize the vision of protecting the human right to a healthy environment by integrating a three-prong strategy involving community capacity development, litigation, and media/public advocacy.

During this grant term, AEHR plans to coordinate three regional and national networks:

• A regional network, the Gulf States Human Rights Working Group builds on distinct human rights advocacy events for hurricane survivors. Several of these events were AEHR training sessions that delved into the United Nations' Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
• The Federal Environmental Policy Network is a national network that arose from AEHR's Environmental Justice & Human Rights Training Sessions with environmental justice organizations and a forum on Environmental Justice and Chemical Policy. Network members share perspectives on opportunities provided by the Obama administration to build on environmental justice policy that had previously been undermined.
• Katrina to Copenhagen Network's starting point was a forum of the same name that occurred in New Orleans. The name connects Hurricane Katrina to international climate policy negotiations that will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.