President Morales Bolivia proclaims "Rights of Mother Earth"
Post date: Apr 18, 2011 7:10:22 PM
April 22 as “International Mother Earth Day.”
U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' Deserves Human Rights Status
Bolivia leads UN treaty Earth same Human rights
A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature.
Treaty supporters want the establishment of legal systems to maintain balance between human rights and what they perceive as the inalienable rights of other members of the Earth community -- plants, animals, and terrain.
source: foxnews.com
the right to life and to exist
In January, Bolivia became the world’s first nation to grant the natural environment equal rights to humans. Bolivia’s Law of Mother Earth is heavily influenced by the spiritual indigenous Andean world outlook that revolves around the earth deity Pachamama, roughly translated to Mother Earth.
The Bolivian law establishes 11 rights for nature that include:; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered; the right to have nature’s processes free from human alteration.
