Ecuador court case on constitutionality of the Mining Law 2009
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador lost a 2009 case claiming a mining law violated the right to prior consultation of indigenous peoples.Read More →
This page identifies initiatives that frame ecological jurisprudence in terms of rights of nature. Initiatives are included in this category when they explicitly recognize any non-human element of Nature (e.g., ecosystems, plant species, animal species) or Nature in general as a subject with rights.