As community members in Lafayette, CO, demand their City Council stand by the City's Climate Bill of Rights, they force the council meeting to adjourn.…
Daily Camera: Anti-fracking protest forces Lafayette City Council to adjourn early, suspend vote on new drilling rules
Lafayette, CO, residents shut down City Council, protecting their Climate Bill of Rights as council members attempt to legalize fracking.
Press Release: Ohio Attorney & Community Rights Advocate Receives the 2018 Johnsrud Unsung Heroes Award
Environmental and social justice attorney Terry Lodge receives the 2018 Johnsrud Unsung Heroes Award. Lodge partners with CELDF to advance and protect Community Rights for…
The Guardian: Our laws make slaves of nature. It’s not just humans who need rights
As the recognition of Rights of Nature grows globally, we must move beyond thinking of nature as having legal personhood rights. We must recognize rights…
The Remarkable Advancement of the NH Community Rights State Constitutional Amendment
A landmark legislative session was held this winter in New Hampshire. It marked the first time a Community Rights state constitutional amendment was debated and…
Press Release: PGE Continues Efforts to Bankrupt Grant Township
PGE continues to harass Grant Township, a small community in rural Pennsylvania, by attempting to force the Township to pay attorney's fees. Grant residents are…
CELDF at the May 2018 Permanent People’s Tribunal
On May 16, 2018, a CELDF representative presented at the PPT on fracking as a violation of the Rights of Nature and the human right…
Blog: Dangerous to the 1% – An Informed Public
An uninformed, passive public is easy to for the 1% to lead. We must become knowledgeable - not just about what is happening, but how…
Center for Humans & Nature: Does Fracking Violate Human Rights?
Check out the stories being submitted as evidence this week at the international Permanent People's Tribunal, where the PPT is considering fracking, climate change, and…
Press Release: The Right to Water Shut Off in Unjust Youngstown Election
It was a questionable election at best for Youngstown, OH, where community members are fighting for their right to clean water in a city that…
Fosters.com: A rights-based ordinance for the Great Bay
Newmarket, Durham, and Newington, NH, residents are a part of the growing Community Rights movement building across the state as they work to protect the…
The Daily News: Pig farm fight continues
Todd Township, PA, residents urge township supervisors to adopt their Community Bill of Rights banning a pig factory farm that threatens their community.
The Progressive: Across the U.S., Courts are Keeping Voter Initiatives Off Local Ballots
This is what it looks like when elected officials and courts block direct democracy - citizen initiative rights are stripped and communities' health, safety, and…
Tell Me a Story: Michelle Holman, activist
Michelle Holman is a Community Rights activist in Lane County, OR, where she is fighting aerial-sprayed pesticides with residents and allies. Here, a short video…
Blog: The Gun Establishment’s Weapon of Choice
Courageous local officials in ten Florida cities are fighting punishments enacted by the state legislature under an unjust gun law. But it's the state's claimed…
Oxford Human Rights Hub: RightsUp #RightNow – When Human Rights Are Not Enough: Defending the Rights of Nature
Human rights to a healthy environment are gaining recognition - and today, the rights of nature are growing as well. Here, CELDF's Mari Margil speaks…
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…
The Progressive: Poll: Voters Want Local Control, Not State Takeovers
State preemption is growing, community members across the U.S. disapprove, and no liberal or conservative political party is coming in to save the day. Instead,…
The Amazon Conservation Team: Breaking News: The Colombian Amazon Has the Same Rights as a Person
"Colombia’s Supreme Court issued a historic ruling combating climate change in Latin America."
The Guardian: It’s only natural: the push to give rivers, mountains and forests legal rights
First initiated with CELDF in the U.S. in 2006, today our Rights of Nature is global. Here, its growing recognition in Australia to protect rivers…
The Register-Guard: Judge’s ruling on spraying initiative thwarts people’s will
A circuit court judge renders meaningless the right to citizen initiative in Lane County, OR. Here's how, why, and a call for the people to…
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