...rights…economic, social and cultural rights…and environmental rights.” “The Rights of Nature easement is a bold first step in a broader legal and cultural paradigm shift,”…
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CELDF’s Proposed Rights of Nature Principles
...Rights of Nature movement will remain aspirational at best and become co-opted and subservient to the same agenda immanentizing Nature’s destruction. Institutionalizing the legally enforceable…
Rights of Nature
Press Release: “A Bright Spot Amidst the Chaos” – From New York to Minnesota, the Rights of Nature are Growing
...rights of nature law passed in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, which was the first time rights of nature were recognized in any western legal system. “Tamaqua didn’t…
Counter Punch: CELDF and the Rights of Nature
...larger national and international movements. How Ecuador is Setting an Example for Upholding the Rights of Nature “Rights of Nature is about balancing what is…
Wouldn’t You Say? – From Rights of Nature to Right Relationship
...and institutionalize legal rights, unless they are rights attached to property, wealth, and their accumulation. We are right to advocate for and institute legal rights…
Press Release: International Rights of Nature Solidarity
...of the Kids of Planet’s Rights collective, who have drafted a European Declaration of Planet’s rights, submitted to the European Commission. Nature Rights, an NGO…
Rights of Nature FAQs
What does "Rights of Nature" mean, and why do need them? Understand Rights of Nature with these FAQs....
Rights of Nature Principles
...we believe its tenets will remain aspirational at best. Rights of Nature recognizes and honors that Nature has inalienable rights and is not property to…
Press Release: International Rights of Nature Tribunal rules impacts caused by current forestry model as ecocide
...declared to be completely insufficient; That the actions of the large forestry companies violate the Rights of Nature; The State of Chile is urged to…
Unveiling Rights of Nature Artwork and Logo
...years of working on advancing Rights of Nature laws that in the end, Nature will prevail. And so this illustration represents this belief that Nature…
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…
Historic Rights of Nature Victory in Ecuador
...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…
Blog: It’s Time: Rights of Nature in the UK.
As we begin a sixth mass extinction, we must act now to change our trajectory. In this guest blog, Susan Shaw urges the UK to…
Press Release: First Rights of Nature Easement Established in Hawaii
As part of the growing Rights of Nature movement, the first conservation easement in Hawaii recognizing the Rights of Nature now protects 8 acres of…
Earth Defenders Warn Against Democrats Undermining ‘Rights of Nature’ Movement With Watered-Down Approach
Rights of Nature advocates caution against handing over Rights of Nature oversight to the Democratic Party....
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…
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…
Press Release: Green Party of England and Wales Adopts Rights of Nature Policy – CELDF Assisted in Drafting New Rights-Based Plank
...draft a Rights of Nature policy platform, which was adopted by the Party on Sunday. The policy calls for the recognition of the rights of…
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…
CELDF Statement on Orange County, FL ‘Rights of Nature’ Law
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) has prepared the following statement in response to the passage of the Wekiva River and Econlockhatchee River Bill…
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