Ganga’s Rights are our Rights!
Please Sign Now! http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Save_the_Ganga_River_Support_the_National_Ganga_Rights_Act/?cFmiRdb The Ganga river (known to many outside India as the Ganges River) supports some 500 million people — more than the populations of the United States, Russia and Australia combined. This most sacred river to the...
Democracy Denied in Small Town, USA
by: Mt. Shasta Community Rights Project, Molly Brown from ReadtheDirt.org Editor’s Note: Read the story of the inner workings of Mt. Shasta, California’s effort to pass a Community Water Rights and Self-Government Ordinance. Hear how the citizens of this small town were,...
CELDF releases 2012 end-of-year Susquehanna!
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) highlights events and progress for year ending 2012 in their recent edition of Susquehanna! Read about November’s election results with three of our communities passing charter amendments establishing Community Bills of Rights while banning...
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...
Mother Nature Gets Her Day in Court
Discovery News – Friday January 27 Tim Will of Discovery News speaks with Mari Margil, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and Linda Sheehan ,Earth Law Center, about Rights of Nature laws in the US, Ecuador and Bolivia. Ecuador and...
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....
The Rights of Nature at Bioneers
Bioneers has scheduled 4 presentations on Rights for Nature for their 2011 Conference. The Rights of Nature: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Natalia Greene, The Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, Fundacion Pachamama, CEDENMA – Saturday Morning 9am –...
The Pivotal Distinction of Rights of Nature
The fundamental distinction in our stand for Rights of Nature is the recognition that Nature herself has rights. While it is essential for the wellbeing of humanity that we humans have clean air, fresh water, healthy food and shelter, what...
Rights of Nature Strategy Summit
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature members from Global Exchange, Fundacion Pachamama, Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CA Coastal Keepers, Council of Canadians, and Gaia participated in a Rights of Nature Strategy Summit...
Rights of Nature Strategy Summit
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature members from Global Exchange, Fundacion Pachamama, Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), CA Coastal Keepers, Council of Canadians, and Gaia participated in a Rights of Nature Strategy Summit...
