This article appeared in Naturens Rattigheter (a Swedish publication) on December 23, 2019. The Church of Sweden is with 6 million members the largest member-based organisation in Sweden and the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe. In november, the General Synod decided to approve a motion to include Rights of Nature into education across the board in [...]
This article by Jon Schwarz appeared in The Intercept on December 6th, 2019. But first a Community Rights commentary by Community Rights US Founder and Director Paul Cienfuegos. Most US’ians believe that it was the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that opened the floodgates for corporate and gazillionaire money in our elections. That people think [...]
This article by Florangel Rosario Braid was published in Manila Bulletin on November 16, 2019. Environmentalism’s next frontier is giving nature legal rights, a paradigm shift in especially in our country where our laws are centered on the human being, not on the environment. However, there is a growing movement around the world today which [...]
This article by Alex Brown was published on the Pew Charitable Trust website on October 30, 2019. When members of the White Earth band of Ojibwe in Minnesota take out their canoes to harvest wild rice, they’re gathering a source of nourishment and following a tradition that has connected them to the land for generations. [...]
"When we're in the beginning of an ecological and climate collapse," said the lawmaker who introduced the measure, "I hope we can re-think our relationship with Nature." This article by Jon Queally was published in Common Dreams on October 8th, 2019. Heralded as the first of its kind in Europe, a proposed constitutional amendment in [...]
A Yurok Tribe resolution allows cases to be brought on behalf of the Klamath River as a person in tribal court This article by Anna V. Smith was published in Mother Jones magazine on September 29, 2019. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This summer, [...]
This article by Matthew Green was published in Reuters on September 10, 2019. FROME, England (Reuters) - Nobody knows exactly how ancient masons, wielding chisels made from deer antlers, managed to build Stonehenge, the standing circle that has enchanted southern England for thousands of years. But one theory about the epic undertaking reserves a special [...]
Colombian cyclist Egan Arley Bernal Gómez and this year’s winner of the Tour de France has captured the world’s attention as the first Latin American to don its leading yellow jersey. What readers may not know is that Colombia also wears the yellow jersey in the race for protection of Mother Earth – blazing the [...]
This article by Dana Drugmand was published in YES! magazine on August 31, 2016. In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature. The Pacific Northwest’s most iconic species—the orcas that live in the Salish Sea year-round—are on the brink [...]
Time to place the rights of nature at the heart of a new Irish constitution This blog post by Dr Peter Doran, School of Law, Queens University Belfast, Mari Margil, Associate Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, appeared on #Think32 on August 11th, 2019. On the evening of 6th August, An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD, [...]
