Jim Cavallaro presents during an international law seminar entitled “Retos De La Justicia Para Un Mundo En Postpandemia.”
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No matter what the Public Service Commission says about the need for the project, the bid to build two new LNG vaporizers at the plant goes against New York’s climate laws, attorney for the Sane Energy Project and Cooper Park Resident Council Ruhan Nagra said…“We are extremely disappointed that DEC has failed once again to stand with environmental justice communities.”
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“A September 2018 Times profile of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was slammed by University Network for Human Rights executive director James Cavallaro for giving ‘free publicity for dangerous psychopaths.’”
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“El Dr. James Cavallaro, expresidente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), realizó una visita académica a la Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.”
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This 20-minute VICE documentary features UNHR’s work with the community of Mossville, Louisiana.
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Listen to Caleb Zakarin interview Jim Cavallaro on his role as the Executive Director of the University Network for Human Rights.
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“Por su parte James Cavallaro, profesor de la universidad de Yale y expresidente de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos dijo que las autoridades mexicanas deben responder las preguntas sobre la desaparición de los estudiantes. “En vez de entrar en afirmaciones sobre la confianza o falta de confianza que podría tener el señor presidente López Obrador en las Fuerzas Armadas, trabajemos en función de hechos”, estima Cavallaro.”
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“Afirmó que el gobierno de la expresidenta fue ilegal porque se utilizó la violencia para que las autoridades ejecutivas y legislativas renuncien a sus cargos y de esa manera llegar al poder.”
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Listen to Eric Clemons interview ED Jim Cavallaro on human rights violations and the training the next generation of defenders.
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“Este blog resume los principales argumentos y propuestas del reporte “La Impunidad Activa en México: Cómo entender y enfrentar las violaciones masivas a los derechos humanos” de Alejandro Anaya Muñoz, James Cavallaro y Patricia Cruz Marín, publicado por el ITESO y la University Network for Human Rights en 2021. El informe fue presentado en México el 13 y 15 julio de 2021. 1”
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“Organizations such as Amnesty International, University Network for Human Rights, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network, #StandWithKashmir as well as Mary Lawlor the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, have condemned the activist’s arrest saying the anti-terror laws are being misused to criminalized the work of human rights defenders in India.”
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“Several international human rights organizations including Amnesty International, University Network for Human Rights, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Network and many others have expressed their solidarity following his arrest and has called upon the Indian authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally.”
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“According to Ruhan Nagra, the director of the Environmental Justice Initiative and the senior clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights, environmental and climate law is moving in a direction that’s much more community focused. This is evident in New York’s landmark law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. ‘I think the environmental justice protections built into the CLCPA are very significant, and absolutely a result of all of the grassroots organizing that’s happened in order to make these sorts of climate justice laws a reality,’ she said.”
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“Sasol bought out those who remained. Black families were offered less than white families who lived nearby. Many families didn’t want to give up their land. One man, who became the subject of the documentary “Mossville: When Great Trees Fall,” simply refused to leave; the plant was built around his property, his electricity and water were cut off, and he broke out in boils. Today, only a handful of people claim residence.”
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“Ruhan Nagra, director of the Environmental Justice Initiative at University Network for Human Rights, who represents Sane Energy in their lawsuit against National Grid, said enforcing the policy so late in the review process does not really comply with CP29. ‘It is absolutely insufficient to decide at the end of a public permit process that suddenly this policy applies and therefore National Grid needs to submit this public participation plan and have a public information session, and then somehow presume that National Grid has fulfilled its obligations under CP29 by doing that,’ she said.”
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“But a letter from the Sane Energy Project — which was also signed by the University Network for Human Rights, Pace Environmental Law Clinic, Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, and Dr. Robert Howarth, who sits on the state Climate Action Panel – says [National Grid’s CLCPA] analysis is faulty. The group say National Grid did not analyze the environmental impact on the surrounding community, including the nearby public housing complex Cooper Park Houses.”
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“A new analysis released on Wednesday alleged sizable disparities in the prices paid for properties in Mossville compared to those in nearby White areas that were also bought out by Sasol. The University Network for Human Rights, the nonprofit advocacy group that conducted the study, says its data ‘strongly suggest that the (voluntary buyout) was racially discriminatory.’ It contends that ‘property transaction amounts were, on average, about 88% higher’ in the mainly white Brentwood area, which was also part of the voluntary buyout, than in Mossville.”
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“What we found was the median buyout amounts in Mossville were statistically, significantly lower than those in Brentwood which was 90% white community subject to the exact same formula as the people in Mossville,” said Ruhan Nagra with the University Network for Human Rights.
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“An extensive new report on the community and the buyout released Wednesday by the University Network for Human Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group, says that its data ‘strongly suggest that the (voluntary buyout) was racially discriminatory’…The new report criticizing the buyout alleges that ‘property transaction amounts were, on average, about 88% higher’ in the Brentwood area than in Mossville… ‘When considered alongside social science literature on the contemporary housing appraisal system, these data strongly suggest that the (voluntary buyout) was racially discriminatory,’ the report says.”
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“On Thursday, [Regan] will visit Mossville, in Louisiana, a day after the Guardian revealed allegations of racial bias in a series of buyouts made by the South African oil giant Sasol during construction of a sprawling, multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in the town.”
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