...in drafting Ecuador’s Rights of Nature language and has continued to advance lawmaking that pushes the needle on the Rights of Nature. Let’s keep the…
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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…
Rights of Nature, Rights of the People vs. State-Authorized Corporate Toxic Practice in Front of Oregon Courts
...build a decolonial movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building upward from the…
Rolling Stone: The Rights of Nature Movement Goes on Trial
...people of Grant Township, PA, are fiercely defending their right to clean air and water. A federal judge sanctions two attorneys for standing with Grant…
Wouldn’t You Say? – What are the Rights of Nature?
...been to employ the most effective weapon devised by civilization to intentionally coerce change in human behavior: Law. Photo by Joel Holland By positing legal…
2018 Historic Vote in New Hampshire
...Recognizes that people, communities, and natural environments have rights to health, safety, and welfare, and the authority to prohibit corporate activities that violate those rights.…
Press Release: “A Slap in the Face” — Rights of Nature Advocates Silenced at the United Nations
...retired 30 year head of the United Nations Harmony with Nature Programme, powerful elements within the UN and the United States are strongly opposed to…
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…
CELDF’s Ben Price on Local Self Governance and Rights of Nature (Parts 1 through 3)
CELDF Projects Director Ben Prices talks with Simon Kaiwai of New Zealand, sharing knowledge of how communities have overcome such things as fracking, mining, water…
Finger Lakes Times: Rights of nature/Rights of water
...for a simple but effective way to demonstrate why we are nature and why a rights of nature legal framework is necessary. Tony Del Plato…
Press Release: Rights of Nature Law Forces Pennsylvania to Revoke Industry Permit
...a “Community Bill of Rights.” The Charter bans injection wells as a violation of the rights of those living in the township and recognizes rights…
Press Release: Support Grows for Rights of Wetlands
...groups are signing on in support, and in addition to CELDF and the Society of Wetland Scientists, include Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Rights of Mother…
Challenges to Implementing Rights of Nature in the U.S
...further objectify Nature as property. Watering Down: Subordinating RoN law to administrative law runs the real risk of nullifying its transformative potential. Highly publicized faux…
Press Release: “Water is Life” — Lane County, Oregon Seeks Watershed Rights
...and is considered “property” to be managed, owned, and exploited. The rights of nature movement argues for expanding our recognition of rights to nature, just…
Suggested Reading – The Politics of Rights of Nature
...construct Rights of Nature differently, and why some efforts at implementation are more successful than others. As they analyze efforts to use Rights of Nature…
Suggested Reading – How Implementing the Rights of Wetlands Provides Benefits to People and Wetlands: Relationships, Rights, Responsibilities, Experiences, and Actions
...international coalition to advance legal rights of wetlands. As with other rights of nature efforts this one is focused on changing our abusive relationship/systems towards…
Invisible Hand Screening: Rights of Nature Network Atlantic Canada
...Nature and asserting their Community Rights. Can we join the Rights of Nature movement and build the local power necessary to stop the corporate assault…
Press Release: For All to See – Bias of New Hampshire Judiciary Exposed in Rights of Nature, Healthy Climate Proceedings
...Defense Fund (CELDF) is building a movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to advance democratic, economic, social, and environmental rights – building…
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…
Rights of Nature Event with CELDF’s Will Falk at Georgetown Law in Washington D.C.
...treats living ecosystems as property instead of relatives and asks one of the most foundational questions in environmental law: What if Nature had legal rights?…
Press Release: Columbus, Ohio Residents Strike Back Against “Liquidation of the Right to Local Self-Determination”
...paid leave, and many others.” Since 2012, over three dozen rights of nature and community rights initiatives for inclusion on city and county ballots in…
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