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New publication: Rights and relationality

Rights and relationality: A review of the role of law in the human/water relationship. New publication by Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell with Cristy Clark and Rachel Killean. Download ...
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Rights for the rivers. How does it work?

Rivers all around the world are being given their own legal rights. But what does this mean? And how does it work? Candice Marshall writes in the Australian Geographic, how Victoria’s Yarra River (Bir...
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Court challenge for Lake Winnipeg

Canada’s Southern Chiefs’ Organization says it’s taking Manitoba Hydro and the provincial government to court in a Charter challenge to have Lake Winnipeg given all the rights and pr...
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Hudson: A river’s right to run?

The rights of more-than-human life are enshrined in many Indigenous cultures — communities in the Hudson Valley are taking heed. The International Rights of Nature Movement Gets Regional Attention, as...
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Living Waters or Water Resource?

Weekend reading: It’s widely acknowledged that First Nations peoples value water in ways quite different to the industrialised West. Reconciling the different framings has always been a challenge. Wor...
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Human Rights and the Environment

Ahead of the 57th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC57), taking place in Geneva from 9 September to 9 October 2024, the Geneva Environment Network and its partners convened an informatio...
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