International Rights of Nature Symposium – 10 Year Anniversary of Rights of Nature in Ecuador’s Constitution

CEE’s Mindahi Bastida will participate in this event to commemorate Ecuador’s 10th anniversary for Rights of Nature and to examine and expand the Rights of Nature movement around the world.

In 2008, Ecuador, one of the most environmentally diverse places on Earth, became the first country in the world to recognize that nature is not an object to exploit, but a subject to respect and protect. Now, ten years after adopting Rights of Nature into its national Constitution, Ecuador offers an important case study for the global Rights of Nature movement. As the Rights of Nature movement takes hold around the world, from New Zealand to Colombia to India to Sweden and beyond, Ecuador offers critical lessons for the global movement.

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) is organizing an international symposium September 27th and 28th to not only celebrate 10 years of Rights of Nature in Ecuador but to bring together Rights of Nature leaders from across the globe to share experiences and ideas, evaluate successes and failures of Rights of Nature laws, cases, and judgements, and to build solidarity and strategies for strengthening and growing the Rights of Nature movement in the years ahead.

We hope you will join us in Quito, Ecuador for the Symposium (Sept. 27-28) and hear from Rights of Nature leaders, frontline communities, and Indigenous peoples who are working to protect their homes, their way of life and the environment by adopting Rights of Nature. We also invite you to join us for the Round-table that will follow on September 29th.