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Almeria – Water Deprivation
The case concerns the abstractions of huge quantities of water from aquifers in the Almeria region of Spain ...
Balkan Rivers Case
-April 24th- The Balkan rivers are some of the last free-flowing and wild rivers of Europe and are a hotspot for biodiversity with unique ecosystems and wildlife ...
British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Case
International Rights of Nature Tribunal Lima, Peru ~ December 2014 Esparanza Martinez presents ...
Caso Chiquitania, Chaco Y Amazonia Vs. Estado Plurinacional De Bolivia
The Amazon rain forest is the largest rain forest in the world, representing 50% of the planet's tropical forests ...
Chevron/Texaco Case
The Ecuadorian government concessioned a land area of approximately 1,431,430 acres to the Gulf Texaco Consortium to explore and extract ...
Climate Change Case
The effects of climate change on our planet include: increases in sea level, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss ...
Condor Mirador Mine Case
The Ecuadorian State, March 5, 2012 signed a contract which enables the exploration and production of copper in a fragile ecosystem ...
Defenders of Nature and Mother Earth Case
The UDRME requires all human beings and institutions to defend the rights of Mother Earth and of all beings ...
French Guiana Case
-February 27th- For more than 30 years, French Guiana has been a region severely hit by illegal gold mining. This activity is devastating the country because ...
Glacier Case
-January 30th- The Mer de Glace (literally “the sea of ice”) is a french glacier, located on the Mont-Blanc massif. This ice giant is however threatened: climate change ...
Lignite mining in the Hambach forest
Witnesses gave evidence of how a massive lignite mine near Bonn has created the largest hole in Europe ...
Marseille Case
-May 29th- The factory of Gardanne (Bouches du Rhône), is producing alumina, a material used to make electronic components. This activity emits toxic waste full of heavy ...
Minería de litio en el desierto de Atacama
La extracción de litio, junto con la extracción de otros metales preciosos (como el cobre) y minerales ...
Patagonia: reserva de agua y vida
El caso aborda el nivel de destrucción, el Ecocidio y la intervención de los Ciclos del Agua en la Patagonia ...
Privatización del agua: el agua como objeto en Chile
En Chile la naturaleza y sus elementos son tratados como simples objetos, sin valor propio, disponibles ...
Tipnis Case
The story of TIPNIS is a story of dignity, struggle, glory, heroism, repression, victory, and renewed betrayal ...
Trade agreements and their implications on nature
Expert witnesses from Canada, Germany, South Africa and Puerto Rico testified that Free Trade ...
Vättern Case
-March 27th- Lake Vättern is the second largest lake in Sweden. It provides drinking water for more than 250 000 people, a number that may increase substantially in the ...
Yasuni ITT Case
Yasuni National Park is an amazing biodiverse place but in 2013 the government decided to exploit oil in spite of the great ecological risk ...
