[P2P-F] Bolivia and Ecuador Grant Equal Rights to Nature

Tue Dec 13 00:46:57 CET 2011

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/21/373273/bolivia-and-ecuador-equal-rights-to-nature-wild-law-climate-solution/

Bolivia amended its constitution after pressure from its large indigenous
population who places the environment and the earth deity, Pachamama, at
the center of all life.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/10/bolivia-enshrines-natural-worlds-rights

Bolivia enshrines natural world's rights with equal status for Mother Earth

Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social
measures in South American nation
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bolivias-law-of-mother-earth_n_848966.html

They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital
cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water
and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the
right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/legal-rights-nature-bolivia/

The first principle of Bolivia’s law — here translated into
English<http://f.cl.ly/items/212y0r1R0W2k2F1M021G/Mother_Earth_Law.pdf>
(.pdf)
from the original
Spanish<https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scribd.com%2Fdoc%2F44900268%2FLey-de-Derechos-de-la-Madre-Tierra-Estado-Plurinacional-de-Bolivia&ei=fqqsTZjSGs_dgQenpuTzBQ&usg=AFQjCNGdRDZ2--RoZgpBXoG9AxVzUGg77w&sig2=yO9oOfxJNEdAA7OQrUNaSw>
—
calls for human activities to “achieve dynamic balance with the cycles and
processes inherent in Mother Earth,” with Mother Earth defined as “a
unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that
sustains, contains and reproduces all beings.” A ministry of Mother Earth
will be established, and an ombudsman appointed to hear disputes.
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