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Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy 2024

November 16 - November 17, 2024

Calling all lifelong learners interested in #RightsofNature! 

The Centre For Law & the Environment at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, is excited to announce the 2024 Green Rights & Warrior Lawyers Virtual Academy on November 16-17, 2024, “Rights of Nature: From Law on the Books to Law in Action.” 

Participants in this free, 2-day, intensive, interactive, online learning event will learn from world leaders including RON pioneer Mari Margil of the Center for Democratic & Environmental Rights, Ecuadorean RON lawyer Hugo Echeverría, Colombian-Canadian RON advocate Yenny Vega Cárdenas of the International Observatory on Nature’s Rights, Innu land guardian, writer and poet Rita Mestokosho, More Than Human Life Project team members from The Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Clinic at the NYU Law School Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, and others. Participants will also prepare for and conduct a virtual rights of nature “mock trial.” 

For details and to register, visit https://www.bit.ly/GRAWL-2024

The instructors are leading Rights of Nature champions and environmental educators, including:

  • Yenny Vega Cárdenas, President of the Observatoire International des Droits de la Nature (International Observatory on the Rights of Nature), Montréal, Canada 
  • Rita Mestokosho, Innu Nitassinan (territory) guardian, writer and poet, Ekuanitshit, Canada
  • Members of the More Than Human Life (MOTH) Project team at New York University School of Law, New York, USA
  • Mari Margil, Executive Director of the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, Spokane, Washington, USA
  • Hugo Echeverría, Rights of Nature lawyer, Quito, Ecuador
  • Leslee Silverman, theatre artistic director and recipient of the Governor General's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Performing Arts (Theatre), Vancouver, Canada 
  • Stepan Wood, Director of the Centre for Law & the Environment, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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