Summary
In April 2021, the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, passed a state constitutional amendment recognizing the Rights of Nature. Deputy Fredie Delfín Avendaño in partnership with Earth Law Center Mexico filed the constitutional reform in 2020. The Constitutional amendment establishes the following rights for Nature: the right to preservation, to protection of its elements, to exercise its vital and natural cycles and its ecological functions, to integral restoration of its ecological balance, and to be legally represented. The amendment also provides that everyone within the territory of the State has the right to live in harmony with nature.