Opening Ceremony of Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature – January 14, 2014 - Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca), Osprey Orielle Lake, Elise Garcia, Silver Donald Cameron and Cormac Cullinen.
Photo by Sister Patricia Siemen, OP
Update: Rights of Nature Tribunal hears 8 cases on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014:http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/01/ecuador-rights-of-nature-tribunal-hears.html
By Brenda Norrell
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The Rights of Nature Summit and Tribunal is now underway in Ecuador. It follows the Rights of Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010, and brings together Indigenous Peoples from around the world in defense of Mother Earth. Casey Camp, Ponca, is among those present.
Sister Elsie Garcia is providing news coverage of the summit and tribunal, which ends Friday, in Ecuador. Ecuador was the first country to enact the Rights of Nature as law.
“In our language, the word ‘rights’ doesn’t exist,” said Blanca Chancoso, a Kichwa leader from Cotacachi, Ecuador. “For us it translates to the power to live.” Read more of today's coverage http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/indigenous-peoples-work-save-land-extinction
The Global Alliance for the Emergent 'Rights of Nature' movment announced the international summit and tribunal being held in Otavalo and Quito, Ecuador, Jan.. 13 -- 17, 2014. This statement was issued:
Key leaders of the emergent nature rights movement are holding an international summit in Ecuador on January 13-17, 2014. Its twofold purpose is to analyze the experiences of communities in Ecuador, Bolivia, and United States that have already implemented “Rights of Nature” laws and to devise a unified global strategy for advancing the Rights of Nature movement around the world.
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