By Joseph Winters in Grist on January 28, 2022. Advocates hope to enshrine the rights of nature and Indigenous protections into law. As Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric prepares to assume office in March, environmental and social justice are top of mind. “To destroy the world is to destroy ourselves,” he told a crowd of supporters [...]
By Shrawan Sharma, published in The Rising Nepal daily online on January 24, 2022. With the climate change posing a survival threat to humanity, the political discourse has undergone a drastic change. It has acquired new language, logic and content after the nations faced water, health, food, energy and climate crises globally. Along with the [...]
Advocates for the legal rights of nature say yes. Published January 24, 2022 in National Catholic Reporter by Barbara Fraser. Nauta, Peru — Three years ago, in January 2019, residents of communities along Peru’s Marañón River crammed into the sweltering meeting room that serves as the town hall in this small Amazonian city to hear [...]
Published January 20, 2022 by Paul Powlesland on the blog, Lawyers for Nature. A vital role for all lawyers: protecting the planet and bringing about the Rights of Nature through the creation – and enforcement – of an ecosystem of legal interventions at the international and local level. The Bar prides itself on the fact [...]
Published Jan 5, 2022 on "The Hightower Lowdown." As an old axiom notes, “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.” From coast to coast, millions of these long-lived jewels have graced our landscape, but one mighty specimen in particular has recently become a hardy symbol of a fast-growing environmental movement. The significance of this oak–rooted on [...]
Published Dec 9, 2021 on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives.” This month’s interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” will give us a fresh perspective – and propose a fresh solution – for some environmental problems that are serious but are not being solved by conventional methods. In the U.S., Latin America, and elsewhere, a movement is growing to [...]
The New Hampshire Community Rights Network answers this question: People’s Right of Local Community Self-Government and Rights of Nature/Ecosystems Right of Local, Community Self-Government The right of local, community self-government is a fundamental, individual political right – exercised collectively – of people to govern the local communities in which they reside. The right includes three [...]
Learn all about how the movement took off and its key milestones and latest updates on this timeline compilation. Published by GARN (Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature). See the timeline on GARN's website.
Blog post of December 16, 2021 by Essex Law Research. Both posthuman theory and the rights of nature (RoN) movement have the potential to challenge the anthropocentrism of international environmental law (IEL). Scholars have begun to document the transformative shifts that could occur through the application of posthuman legal theory to IEL, but these theories [...]
By Suzanne Forcese in WaterToday Ohio on December 17, 2021 “I have been called to carry a message. It wasn’t something I planned, or something I could ever strive for, or even thought about. But, when I received ‘the call’, there was no other option. I know have a responsibility to act on that call. [...]
