Webinar: First Rights of Salmon Case Goes to Tribal Court, March 30 7pm Eastern. Register Now! #rightsofnature First Rights of Salmon Case Goes to Tribal Court Sauk-Suiattle Tribe v. City of Seattle Wednesday, March 30 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) and our partner Menīkānaehkem are pleased to present and [...]
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Sunday March 6. White Earth Tribal Attorney Frank Bibeau and Thomas Linzey from the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, and will be presenting on the Rights of Wild Rice and the fight against the Line 3 pipeline @PIELCOU, Sunday, March 6, 9am P.T.! http://pielc.org #rightsofnature, #rightsofwildrice Here's a bit [...]
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White Earth Nation’s fight to protect “wild rice” from the Line 3 pipeline reflects a larger question about the legal rights of nature. Published by PrismReports, by Ray Levy Uyeda February 22nd, 2022. U.S. federal judges will soon decide whether a lawsuit can proceed in the tribal court of White Earth Nation to decide if [...]
When the only options before us are geared toward harm, it's time to rewrite the choices. By Michelle W. Martin, CRUS Social Media Coordinator, Feb 26, 2022. There’s a strategy employed by many parents of toddler-sized children when the inevitable, yet sad time comes to leave the playground—perhaps you are familiar with it. The technique [...]
By Kevin Koenig in Amazon Watch on February 15, 2022. Ecuador’s plans to greatly expand oil and mining extraction in the Amazon hit a major snag last week as the nation’s Constitutional Court handed down multiple decisions that affirm Indigenous rights and limit extraction. In a major victory for Indigenous rights in Ecuador and beyond, [...]
Damages "Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind more than 200 climate cases around the globe."-Producers of the new podcast "Damages" In the first episode of Damages Journalist Amy Westervelt and team look at a fascinating case in Minnesota, where the White Earth band of Ojibwe have filed [...]
The court’s ruling cheered environmentalists and sent shock waves through the mining industry, which now must prove that projects don’t harm ecosystems or endanger species. By Katie Surma, published by Iniside Climate News on February 21, 2022. Until recently, so-called “rights of nature” provisions that confer legal rights to rivers, forests and other ecosystems have [...]
Published by CELDF, by Tish O'Dell on December 17, 2021. Drawing on a provision in Ecuador’s popularly-adopted constitution of 2008, the nation’s Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s highest court) halted mining concessions and permits issued in the Los Cedros Protected Forest ecosystem. The mining would violate the Rights of Nature, the court ruled in the landmark decision. [...]
Press Release: CDER participated in the launch of Rights of Nature in Chile book, and will provide key legal inputs to the Constitutional Convention Press Release – English/Español February 16, 2022 Contact: Hugo Echeverría, Attorney, echejur@yahoo.ca Mari Margil, Executive Director, mmargil@centerforenvironmentalrights.org Chile is in a historic moment of constitutional transformation: By citizen decision, a Constitutional [...]
