CDER Submits Friend of the Court Brief in Piatúa River Constitutional Case. Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights Press Release The Rights of Nature provides a constitutional basis for prohibiting hydroelectric projects in fragile river ecosystems and endangered species habitat. April 1, 2021 Quito, Ecuador: The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) has submitted [...]
CELDF Press Release, March 3, 2021 Following international support for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, CELDF is honored to work in solidarity with a new French-speaking network to advance Rights of Nature in Europe. OHIO, UNITED STATES: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund applauds the formation of a French-speaking network to advance Rights of [...]
Interview with the Sponsor: Former City Councilmember Cheryl Davila On Tuesday, March 30, the City Council of Berkeley, California, will consider a resolution recognizing the rights of nature. That Resolution would recognize the City’s commitment to act in ways that respect that the “natural living world has a right to exist, thrive, regenerate and evolve [...]
Ponca Environmental Ambassador Casey Camp Horinek announced that this week the Ponca will recognize the Rights of the Arkansas & Salt Fork Rivers in Tribal Law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG3dGnqfAKo
Published in PA Times (the newsletter for the American Society for Public Adminstration) By Tom R. Hulst on February 26, 2021. The question of the legal rights of nature—or standing of inanimate objects to sue—was perhaps first raised in an article in 1972 by Christopher Stone, in the Southern California Law Review, titled Should Trees [...]
What that means for granting nature rights. Published on the Ecojustice blog by lawyer Sean Nixon. Famous for its white-water rapids, the Muteshekau-shipu river (also known as the Magpie River) stretches 300 kilometres through Quebec. The river is of profound cultural importance to the Innu of Ekuanitshit. And now, in a Canadian first, this waterway [...]
By Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin in Canada's National Observer on Febrary 24, 2021. In a first for Canadians, a river in Côte-Nord, Que., has been granted legal personhood by the local municipality of Minganie and the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit. The Magpie River, (Muteshekau-shipu in the Innu Coet) is an internationally renowned whitewater rafting site, winding [...]
The Global Movement for the Rights of Nature. Mari Margil and Thomas Linzey of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, leading figures in the global movement to recognize the legal rights of ecosystems and nature, share exciting recent developments in that effort. They highlight breakthroughs in tribal nations, communities, and countries around the world. [...]
Press Release Alliance Muteshekau-shipu Feb 23, 2021, 12:00 ET QUEBEC, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - The Muteshekau-shipu Alliance today announced the granting of legal personhood to the Magpie River, through the adoption of two parallel resolutions by the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality (RCM). The river is thus assigned nine [...]
The School of Philosophy and Economic Science in London is hosting a lecture by Mumta Ito on the Rights of Nature on March 13. Speaker: Mumta Ito Date & Time: Saturday 13 March 2021 2.00pm GMT via Zoom Cost: $7.14 USD At the heart of our multiple interconnected emergencies is an old paradigm encoded in [...]
