Many thanks for this important contribution. Receipt is confirmed.
Sincerely
Lucinda
Lucinda O'Hanlon
Special Procedures Division / OHCHR
Palais Wilson, Office 3-080
tel: +41 22 917 9679
email: lohanlon@ohchr.org
Forgotten People
01.03.2011 22:40 Toiewater@ohchr.org
ccleonardgorman@navajo.org, "Duane H. Yazzie"
SubjectRe: Forgotten People's Case to IE on the Human Right to Water & Sanitation
Attention: Ms. Lucinda O'Hanlon, Office of the Independent Expert (IE)
For: Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, Independent Expert (IE) on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Mission to the US, United Nations Human Rights Council.
Dated: March 1, 2011
Via E-mail: iewater@ohchr.org
Re: IE official visit, February 23-March 4, 2011 and official report to U.S.
Forgotten People is herewith submitting these documents in response to a posting by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights about the Independent Expert investigation of Human Rights to Water and Sanitation and official report to the U.S.
Please confirm receipt of this document and contact us to obtain more information and schedule an on-site visit.
Respectfully,
Don Yellowman, President
Joe Klain, Vice-President
Lucy Knorr, Sec'y/Treasurer
Marsha Monestersky, Program Director
Copy: Honorable Leonard Gorman and Duane H. Yazzie, Navajo Human Rights Commission
Ms. Michelle Roberts
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Lucinda O'Hanlon
Special Procedures Division / OHCHR
Palais Wilson, Office 3-080
tel: +41 22 917 9679
email: lohanlon@ohchr.org
March 2, 2011
Dear Ms. O’Halon,
Greetings from the Navajo Nation! Thank you for confirming receipt of Forgotten People, Navajo Nation 3/1/2011 case submission on the human rights to water and sanitation.
Please let us know when we will hear from you so we can schedule an on-site investigation and be included in the official report to the U.S. As you can appreciate, the issues here are critical to water haulers in the former Bennett Freeze and throughout the Navajo Nation.
There is a great deal of information we can share with you on safe drinking water and sanitation issues and some of the solutions we have implemented for water haulers.
In the interim, please include the following links in Forgotten People’s case file:
1. US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Report highlighting the work of Forgotten People.
Health and Environmental Impacts of Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation EPA Progress in Implementing a 5-Year Cleanup Plan
April 2009 Progress Report
http://epa.gov/region09/superfund/navajo-nation/pdf/NN-Progress-Report4_09.pdf
2. Forgotten People and La Sierra University 9/2010 PowerPoint presentation posted on US Environmental Protection Agency website
Decolonizing the Navajo Nation
Using Grassroots Driven Development & Activism to Secure Environmental
Justice
September, 2010
Uranium Contamination and Stakeholder Workshop
Community Involvement Session
Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ
Links:
10/2010 US EPA Uranium Stakeholders Conference, Tuba City (Navajo Nation), AZ
Or
http://www.epa.gov/region9/superfund/navajo-nation/pdf/stakeholders/2010/ForgottenPeople.pdf
3. Forgotten People 2/2011 PowerPoint to Navajo Generating Station – Securing Economic & Climate Justice
http://www.slideshare.net/en3pro/forgotten-people-and-ngs
Forgotten People Resolution to NGS
4. Forgotten People 3/2010 Abstract posted on US EPA website.
Forgotten People CDC – The Navajo Nation Laboratory
US EPA Health Disparities Symposium: Strengthening Environmental Justice
and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate
Environmental Health Impacts
Links:
3/2010 US EPA Health Disparities Symposium, Washington, DC: Strengthening Environmental Justice and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts
Or
http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events/calendar/2010/mar17/abstracts/Yellowman_formatted.pdf
4. Historic 1/2010 Navajo Nation Declaration of State of Public Health Emergency
Links:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Bw2-15QqDXkTNDE5MzQyNjMtNTg0OC00MDIwLWI2NzYtMjM2MjBmOGQ5ZWIw&hl=en
(Document is also attached as an Adobe file)
5. Forgotten People’s website and updated blog for more information at: www.forgottennavajopeople.org
Respectfully submitted,
Lucy Knorr, Sec’y Treasurer Marsha Monestersky, Program Director
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