Ohio’s CELDF aims to restore Rights of Nature after lawmakers’ pushback Enjoy this WT Media Group interview with Tish O’Dell, Consulting Director CELDF. The interview…
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Pachamama Hosts Global Alliance for Rights of Nature in San Francisco
The Rights of Nature, The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. Co-produced by Global Exchange, the Council of Canadians, The…
Rolling Stone: The Environment Is Under Attack. The Rights of Nature Movement Can Save It
...New York State Assembly granting them and all other bodies of water in New York those legal rights. The waters, the bill declares, “shall possess…
Rights of Nature: Ohio Organizer Tish O’Dell on Top of Mind with Julie Rose
...or forest or river the same status? Ohio organizer Tish O'Dell talks about Toledo's groundbreaking law - the Lake Erie Bill of Rights - and…
Press Release: New Book Reflects on 30 Years of Activism for Community and Nature’s Rights
...and cultural change.” Today, CELDF continues to present the idea of Rights of Nature through proposed legislation like the Great Lakes Bill of Rights introduced…
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Funds CELDF’s Work to Advance Rights to Local, Democratic Self-Governance and Rights of Nature
Lessons from Ecuador
...Nature laws, or they take seriously corporate lawyers’ claims that Rights of Nature laws violate the civil rights of corporate “persons.” Part of the reason…
Press Release: Ohio River Rights Campaign Launched by Cincinnati Residents
...democratic, environmental, and economic rights. They have worked with CELDF to establish Community Rights and the Rights of Nature in law, and prohibit extraction, fracking,…
Common Dreams: New Bill to Recognize Legal Rights of All Water Bodies in New York State
...of ecosystems in 2006, CELDF has partnered with more than 200 communities across the United States to enact community rights and rights of nature laws.…
CELDF’s New Frontiers: Building a Grassroots Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature
Why CELDF will be watching more than sports this Sunday
...looks like when Rights of Nature are enforced. Photo by Robinson Recalde Since 2006, CELDF has continued to be an active and long-term contributor to…
The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
By Pamela Haines September 27, 2022 From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What Do We Mean by “Community Rights?”
...to demand civil rights for descendants of emancipated slaves if the U.S. empire permitted them justice. We would not be advocating for the Rights of…
Press Release: Support Grows for Rights of Wetlands
...of Nature Sweden, Wetlands International, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature Europe, The Gaia Foundation, Earth Thrive, Funcaión Lagunas Costeras, Funcaión Montecito, Virginia Community…
WGRZ.com: Nature’s Law: The Rights of Nature to Exist
CELDF is working with communities across the U.S. and around the world to advance the Rights of Nature - and the movement is growing....
Press Release: Colombia Supreme Court Rules that Amazon Region is “Subject of Rights”
In the growing recognition of ecosystem rights around the world, today the Colombia Supreme Court of Justice ruled that the Amazon region in Colombia possesses…
Tumbled by the surf: Figuring out which wave to ride next for recognizing rights
...Voting Rights Act (1965) and the Civil Rights Act (1968). None of these changes came easily, the marches, the protests, the court filings, the horrifying deaths…
Press Release: Grant Township Injection Well Ban Stands, Court Denies ‘Collateral Attack’ from DEP
...movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the grassroots to the…
United Nations Radio: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature promotes its cause at Rio+20
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is....calling for global recognition and acceptance of Rights of Nature. They say an essential step for achieving…
It’s Not All Bad
...hearing what had happened in Tamaqua) adopted rights-of-nature language into the country’s national constitution. The work has expanded exponentially since. As noted in that link,…
Some things never change, but we better start!
...criticism, anger, and the shocking experience of being blackballed from environmental forums. At the beginning of my current work with Community Rights and Rights of…
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