Earth Law Update – March 2, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has released its judgment in the case of Kaliña and Lokono Peoples v Suriname, nine years after the case was first submitted by Chiefs of the eight Kaliña and...
Two Good Days When Crimes Against Nature Were Exposed
By Nnimmo Bassey For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual moments, moments...
COP Out: The hollow promise of the Paris climate deal
Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2015 COP21 has had a mixed reception and the agreement reached has been criticised more for what it doesn’t say as much as for what it does. The Gaia Foundation’s latest blog COP out:...
Nature’s rights and human rights : building legal, economic and social solutions to planetary crisis
Hosted by The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, NatureRights, EndEcocide on Earth, and Attac France, December 3, 2015, at A Place to B, Paris, France Video of Nature’s rights and human rights : building legal, economic and social...
Mind the gap: Climate negotiators and civil society don’t agree
By Elisa Garcia for Global Sisters Report Photo: Indigenous leader from Ecuador speaks to crimes against nature by Chevron to a 13-member international panel of judges headed by South African lawyer Cormac Cullinan, author of Wild Law. Left is co-prosecutor...
UN Press Conference International Rights of Nature Tribunal
Prominent International Rights of Nature Tribunal Offers Earth-Driven, Not Market-Driven, Solutions to Climate Change http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop21/events/2015-12-09-11-30-ithaca-college In an extraordinary display of global solidarity, vision and determination, communities and organizations from all over the world took the initiative this past weekend to...
COP21: call for international treaty on rights of nature and communities
By Hal Rhoades, 8th December 2015, The Ecologist A new initiative launched alongside COP21 in Paris this week is aiming to “Adopt and implement an international treaty to prevent and enforce against corporate human rights violations” and “Incorporate rights of...
The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
by John Foran, originally published by Resilience.org | Dec 8, 2015 “AMY GOODMAN: What did you make of President Obama’s speech on Monday here at the U.N. Climate Summit? JAMES HANSEN: Well, we have to decide, are these people stupid or are...
Tribunal Offers Earth-Driven, Not Market-Driven, Solutions to Climate Change
PRESS RELEASE Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature Contact: Nature@theRightsofNature.org Click for printable Paris Tribunal Press Release International Rights of Nature Tribunal Hears Cases for Mother Earth in Paris Tribunal Offers Earth-Driven, Not Market-Driven, Solutions to Climate Change photo...
Ta’kaiya Blaney – To turn the world around, turn it upside down
Ta’kaiya Blaney, through a poignant closing song at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris, shared the message If you want to turn the world around, you need to turn it upside down … video by Citizens’ Voice at...
