Join in for World Water Day 2025
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance
focusing on the importance of freshwater.
NatureRights
Freshwater Fauna before Extinction?
Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. Study co-author Patricia Charvet, a biol...
Brazil: National River Protection Policy
With the current water crisis and climate change becoming increasingly severe, a new bill could ensure water security for future generations. Today, Brazil is experiencing the most severe consequences...
Australia: No licence to restore nature
Nature-destroying projects, like residential buildings, agricultural clearing and major infrastructure, have special pathways to grease the wheels of the regulatory system: things like biodiversity of...
Chile: Biobio River Rights (Podcast)
Do rivers have rights? Should they have a set of rights that guide how they are used? In September of this year, 2024, the Biobio River in Chile was assigned a Declaration of Rights. This non binding ...
Personhood for the River Clyde
Calls have been made to grant Scotland’s River Clyde, rising in Lanarkshire and flowing through Glasgow to the Firth of Clyde, a legal ‘right to personhood’ to safeguard its waterway...
“The River is the Mother of our people”
Through a tribal-wide vote, the Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia has become the first Tribal Nation in the U.S. to adopt a Tribal Constitution that recognizes the constitutional rights of nature. The ne...
Maude Barlow on the Rights of Nature
Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow has just written a White Paper on “How the Commodification and Financialization of Nature endanger the Rights of Nature” for the Global Alliance for ...
IJHR Special edition on Riverine Rights
The International Journal of Human Rights has published a special issue on “Riverine Rights”. It reflects broadly on the rights of rivers, community and nature. The introduction is due pub...
How do we speak for nature and rivers?
Rivers and other natural entities around the world continue to gain legal rights and recognition as living beings. However, it is not always clear how the interests of these natural beings are represe...
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