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Colombia case on the Rights of the Colombian Amazon

Colombia
National
Approved in 2018
Case
Personhood, Rights Of Nature
Amazon
Forest
DEJUSTICIA. Andrea Lozano Barragán, Victoria AlexandraArenas Sánchez, José Daniel, Félix Jeffry Rodríguez Peña,among others
Court, NGO

Summary

In 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice, following the example of the Atrato River case, declared the Colombian Amazon as “an entity subject to rights, entitled to protection, conservation, maintenance and restoration by the State and the territorial entities that comprise it.” Unlike the case of the Atrato River, the Supreme Court based its arguments on what effects this might have on future generations, the plaintiffs being young citizens from different parts of Colombia. The organization DeJusticia played an important role in providing legal advice in this case.

To see the original legal document(s) for this initiative, click the links below:

Rights of Colombian Amazon Case Supreme Court Judgment [PDF]

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