In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out
By Ricardo Maldonado Rozo Bojaya, Colombia, May 2 (EFE).- Survivors and family members of the victims of a 2002 church bombing in this northern municipality paid a visit Monday to the ruins of that temple, a commemorative activity to mark one of the deadliest incidents of Colombia’s armed conflict and a tragedy whose wounds remain …