The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature wants to pay tribute to François Houtart (7 March 1925 in Brussels, Belgium – 6 June 2017 in Quito, Ecuador), Belgian marxist sociologist and Catholic priest who advocated for human rights and earth rights. François Houtart served as our honorable judge during the International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in Lima Perú on the 5th and 6th of December 2014.
All the judges of the Rights of Nature Tribunals are chosen due to their high moral and ethical record, representing civil society’s maximum authorities, in order to hear and judge important Rights of Nature violations around the world.
It is with great sympathy that we accompany his loved ones, honor his life and thank him for his amazing contribution, as a writer, as a philosopher, as a theologist and as an activist for peace for among humans as with the Earth.
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature wants to pay tribute to François Houtart (7 March 1925 in Brussels, Belgium – 6 June 2017 in Quito, Ecuador), Belgian marxist sociologist and Catholic priest who advocated for human rights and earth rights. François Houtart served as our honorable judge during the International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in Lima Perú on the 5th and 6th of December 2014.
All the judges of the Rights of Nature Tribunals are chosen due to their high moral and ethical record, representing civil society’s maximum authorities, in order to hear and judge important Rights of Nature violations around the world.
It is with great sympathy that we accompany his loved ones, honor his life and thank him for his amazing contribution, as a writer, as a philosopher, as a theologist and as an activist for peace for among humans as with the Earth.
