Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP) For Human Rights And Environmental Issues?
For the assessment Human Rights and Environmental Issues, I have chosen to describe the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for human rights and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental issues.
NAACP
The mission for the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The Vision Statement for the NAACP is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. The NAACP has numerous goals.
1) To ensure equality in regards to a person’s rights in the area of politics, education and economic stature.
2) To obtain equality among all races …show more content…
Their headquarters is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Individuals primarily funds Greenpeace as they do not solicit for government, companies or affiliates funding. Greenpeace consists of Greenpeace International with 28 regional offices in 45 countries. The offices work primarily under the guidance and direction of the main office know as Greenpeace International. The structure of the organization is fixed in the sense that each office has a management organization that reports up to headquarters. At the top of the organization is the president, Patrick Moore. Greenpeace has not gone without its bad publicity and financials woes. Under controversy, Greenpeace lost millions of dollars, $5.2 million to be exact, in donor money through ill-conceived currency deals. It not only cost them a large sum of money, it damaged their reputation. One of the issues that Greenpeace experiences is that not all countries back them or have laws in place to protect the environment. For example, India still uses heavy oils such as kerosene, which is a dirty pollutant. If the country does not have associations such as the United States EPA, Greenpeace struggles to get laws …show more content…
The positives for both organizations is that they protect both humans and the environment. The negatives for both organizations is that they both performed questionable practices causing harm to society as well as the environment. For example, during a protest of commercial whaling, two inflatable rafts manned by Greenpeace personnel collided with a female whale and her cub killing them both. A negative for the NAACP is that a few of the protests that have been organized by the group have led to violent
NAACP
The mission for the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. The Vision Statement for the NAACP is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. The NAACP has numerous goals.
1) To ensure equality in regards to a person’s rights in the area of politics, education and economic stature.
2) To obtain equality among all races …show more content…
Their headquarters is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Individuals primarily funds Greenpeace as they do not solicit for government, companies or affiliates funding. Greenpeace consists of Greenpeace International with 28 regional offices in 45 countries. The offices work primarily under the guidance and direction of the main office know as Greenpeace International. The structure of the organization is fixed in the sense that each office has a management organization that reports up to headquarters. At the top of the organization is the president, Patrick Moore. Greenpeace has not gone without its bad publicity and financials woes. Under controversy, Greenpeace lost millions of dollars, $5.2 million to be exact, in donor money through ill-conceived currency deals. It not only cost them a large sum of money, it damaged their reputation. One of the issues that Greenpeace experiences is that not all countries back them or have laws in place to protect the environment. For example, India still uses heavy oils such as kerosene, which is a dirty pollutant. If the country does not have associations such as the United States EPA, Greenpeace struggles to get laws …show more content…
The positives for both organizations is that they protect both humans and the environment. The negatives for both organizations is that they both performed questionable practices causing harm to society as well as the environment. For example, during a protest of commercial whaling, two inflatable rafts manned by Greenpeace personnel collided with a female whale and her cub killing them both. A negative for the NAACP is that a few of the protests that have been organized by the group have led to violent