Environment and Human Rights Advisory
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Providing human rights information
and analysis services to private firms, government
agencies and environmental organizations
Using human rights to protect people and their planet.
Seeking justice today for future generations.
Empowering communities to protect their health and the environment.

Environment and Human Rights Advisory is a non-profit corporation chartered in the state of Oregon. Its work is to provide information and analysis services nationally and internationally to government agencies, private firms and environmental organizations regarding the human rights dimensions of their work.

We provide written reports at the request of environmental organizations, government agencies and private firms.

We also collect and publish personal narratives of those who have been directly impacted by adverse environmental events or conditions.

Please contact us for further information.

Thomas Kerns, PhD – Executive Director

Dr. Thomas Kerns, PhDThomas Kerns, emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Community College has taught online courses in Bioethics, Ways of Knowing and Environment and Human Rights. Dr Kerns is author of Environmentally Induced Illnesses: Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights (McFarland, 2001), has lectured at World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva and served as commissioner on the New Zealand People’s Inquiry into Aerial Pesticide Sprays Over Auckland (2006). Tom is also a Board member of Beyond Toxics.