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How to legally react to a time of cosmological change? The case of the Mar Menor

Speak4Nature Seminar Series related to Ramón del Buey Cañas (UAM) secondment in UNL “How to legally react to a time of cosmological change? The case of the Mar Menor” was a seminar developed at the research stay of Ramón del Buey Cañas at UNL, attended by people from the UNL Speak4Nature team as well as the general public. In the seminar, the case of the Mar Menor in Murcia (Spain) was presented as the first case of recognition of rights of nature in Europe

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III Conference on Rights and Nature. Debates around the ecological problem

Annual conferences on nature and rights organized since 2021 by the Meulen research project of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences (UNL) The event brings together researchers from the field of law and other disciplines devoted to the study and analysis of environmental problems. In the month of May 2023, the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral hosted the Third Conference “Rights and Nature: Debates on ecological issues, organized by the Research Project “Meulen II. Deepening of legal contributions on the ecological problem in Latin America” ​​in execution at the Research Center of the FCJS. The activity was carried out in two days in which conferences related to the theme of the call were given and debated and reflected on works presented by researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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Workshop on Human Rights and Ecological Justice

The Workshop “Human Rights and Ecological Justice” that took place in the same week as the “First NetworkSchool: Introduction to Ecological Justice”, in Florianópolis, Brazil. The Workshop “Human Rights and Ecological Justice” that took place in the same week as the “First NetworkSchool: Introduction to Ecological Justice”, in Florianópolis. It was related to the project’s task 2.3, aiming to analyze how human rights theory applies to Ecological Justice, exploring the relationship between human rights and nature. The activity analyzed how the notion of Ecological Justice concerns environmental human rights. It happened on April 8th, 2024, 2:00 pm (Brasilia time), in the Auditorium of the Center Social Economic (CSE), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Florianópolis, Brazil. The event was intended for members of partner institutions only.

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EXTENSION, TERRITORIES AND RIGHTS. DIALOGUE BETWEEN EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY IN THE REGION.

Meeting about community practice of law Dialogue meeting between the university extension project “Acampe por una justicia ecológica” (Camp for ecological justice), different non-governmental organisations and legal professionals to discuss the community practice of law.

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Workshop on Rights of Nature

To bring together students and academics currently working on the rights of nature, as well as those who are interested in learning more about the expanding legal discourse and practice in different geographies. The workshop will further the discussion regarding the possibilities of the rights of nature, the obstacles, and critiques through literature and experiences from different countries. This workshop aims to continue the dialogue initiated at the Rachel Carson Center in 2017 by Anna Leah Tabios Hillebrecht and María Valeria Berros and it asks how the debate over rights of nature has evolved since the publication of the RCC on the topic. Specifically, the following perspectives and questions will be addressed: Theoretical, logistical, social, and legal challenges for granting nature rights and the corresponding implementation. The challenges regarding the expansion of the rights of nature framework into different jurisdictions. Engagement with different critical points of view regarding the rights of nature.

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Socioenvironmental conflicts

Interview for the program El Paraninfo of the UNL public television channel (Litus TV) in which three members of Speak4Nature participated Interview for the program El Paraninfo of the UNL public television channel (Litus TV) in which three members of Speak4Nature participated: Valeria Berros (UNL), Marianela Galanzino (UNL) and Ramón del Buey Cañas (UAM) talking about socio-environmental conflicts legal innovations taking into account cases of Argentina (Delta del Paraná) and Spain (Mar Menor) https://youtu.be/IU0R7W765As?si=Mrq-gMIJ9bfjROTy

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Camp for ecological justice

University extension project that tries to quantify data on socio-environmental problems and access to justice in small towns in the province of Santa Fe (in this case Arroyo Leyes) Proyecto de extensión universitaria que trata de cuantificar datos sobre problemas socioambientales y acceso a la justicia en pequeñas localidades de la provincia de Santa Fe (en este caso Arroyo Leyes)