Rights of Nature and Eradicating Ecocide – KWMR Radio
Listen to this great discussion about Eradicating Ecocide and Instituting the Rights of Nature with Louise Kulbicki, Ecocide Legal Coordinator who is working with Polly Higgins in the UK, and Linda Sheehan, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center working...
Rights of Nature dialogue in Nepal with CELDF
Since 2009, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, head of the Global Alliance’s Legislative Assistance Working Group, has been in discussions with the Center for Economic and Social Development (CESOD) in Nepal, a civil society organization whose work has increasingly...
South meets North at IEN Rights of Nature Conference
Indigenous leaders Marlon Santi and Patricia Gualinga of Sarayacu, Ecuador traveled to Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Kansas to participate in the Rights of Mother Earth Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility and Respect in April, 2012. The two leaders...
Vilcabamba River case law: 1 year after
News bulletin on the implementation of the first nature rights sentence[1] Gabriela León Cobo Pachamama Foundation Nature Rights. Can they be exercised? The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, through one of its founding organizations, Fundación Pachamama, points towards...
CELDF releases a Model Bill of Rights Elections Ordinance
January 17, 2012 – Mercersburg, PA: With the two year anniversary of the Citizens United decision upon us, today the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) released a statement examining the activism that’s emerged in the wake of the U.S....
First successful Rights of Nature case in Ecuador
by Natalia Greene The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the Ecuadorian Coordinator of Organizations for the Defense of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA) and Fundación Pachamama praise the first successful case of the rights of nature in Ecuador...
NY town Adopts Community Rights Ordinance That Bans “Fracking”
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – Pennsylvania Community Rights Network announces Town of Wales, New York, adopts a Community Rights Ordinance that bans “fracking” “This local law embodies the will of our residents to protect our natural resources...
Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous
June 3, 2011 (Suzy Chaffe) Excerpts from Emergency ‘Call to Action to Protect Earth’ by UN, Pope, Scientists and Indigenous Following Bolivia’s passage of their domestic law “Recognizing Mother Earth as a living entity and giving Her the Same Rights as...
Seminario: Instrumentalización de los Derechos de la Naturaleza en Galápagos
Fundación Pachamama, gracias al apoyo de la Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza, la Defensoría del Pueblo, el Consejo de Gobierno de Galápagos, el Gobierno Municipal de Puerto Ayora, el Parque Nacional Galápagos, FUNDAR Galápagos, ECOLEX, Sea Shepherd...
Seminario: Instrumentalización de los Derechos de la Naturaleza en Galápagos
Fundación Pachamama, gracias al apoyo de la Alianza Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza, la Defensoría del Pueblo, el Consejo de Gobierno de Galápagos, el Gobierno Municipal de Puerto Ayora, el Parque Nacional Galápagos, FUNDAR Galápagos, ECOLEX, Sea Shepherd...
