GARN officially launched its Indigenous Council at the UNFPII 2024
GARN was part of the 23rd session of 2024 United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in New York, where our lead organizer of the council Casey Camp Horinek along with our North America Indigenous organizer Julia Horinek, joined by...
Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Ban Fracking
Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to Recognize the Rights of Nature to Ban Fracking Article written by: Movement Rights – http://www.movementrights.org San Francisco, CA – After suffering for years with poisoned water and serious health issues due to fracking and injection wells...
First Rights of Nature Symposium: Driving Rights of Nature into Law
Opportunities, Risks, and Obstacles Friday October 27, 2017 The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), with its International Center for the Rights of Nature, is partnering with Tulane Law School to host the Rights of Nature Symposium: Driving Rights of...
WE ARE ALL RELATED: Working together to fight fossil fuels
Pennie Opal Plant, LUSH Blog, May 2016 Author Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, English, Choctaw, Cherokee and European ancestry. She’s been an activist for over 30 years on anti-nuclear, environmental and indigenous rights, and has been a lecturer...
WE ARE ALL RELATED: Working together to fight fossil fuels
Pennie Opal Plant, LUSH Blog, May 2016 Author Pennie Opal Plant is of Yaqui, Mexican, English, Choctaw, Cherokee and European ancestry. She’s been an activist for over 30 years on anti-nuclear, environmental and indigenous rights, and has been a lecturer...
Earth Law Updates – May 11, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here’s the latest Earth law update: The fifteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is currently taking place in New York, from 9th to 20th In its ‘Proud to be Indigenous’...
Earth law update – March 24, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here are some recent Earth law developments: The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) has issued a call for papers in preparation for its conference on 20th and 21st October 2016, ‘The future of Australian environmental...
Recognizing the Rights of Nature and the Living Forest
By Osprey Orielle Lake, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network International During COP21 U.N. climate negotiations and actions by the climate justice movement in Paris, two truly transformational ideas were presented that challenge dominant destructive paradigms and instead offer deep...
From Paris with love for lake Poopó
By Pablo Solón, El Observatorio Boliviano de Cambio Climático y “Desarrollo”, 21 December 2015 Lake Poopó becomes a desert while in Paris, governments conclude an agreement they call “historic” to address climate change. Will the Paris Agreement save over 125,000...
The Paris COP21 failure demonstrates climate justice lies beyond the “Red Line”
Movement Rights Blog, By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, December 21, 2015 If you’ve been confused by the conflicting reports of the success COP 21 negotiations, you’re not alone. On the final day of the UN climate talks, President...
