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ELAW partner Olivier Ndoole traveled to Dublin, Ireland, last week to receive a 2023 Human Rights Defenders at Risk Award from Front Line Defenders.

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ELAW partner Zelda Soriano of Community Legal Help and Public Interest Centre (C-HELP) recently shared the exciting news that the Supreme Court of the Philippines issued a writ of kalikasan in response to their petition against the commercial propagation of GMO rice and eggplant in the Philippines.

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Congratulations to the communities in Ecuador's Intag Valley that recently secured a court order canceling a license to mine copper in one of the world's most biodiverse forests!

Communities around the world are speaking out against short-sighted projects that threaten wild places, wildlife, biodiversity, and ecosystems. In the Maldives, Congo, Guinea, and Nepal, advocates are working to protect forests, watersheds, coral reefs, and much more. We are proud to collaborate with these local advocates. Enjoy the following brief reports on our recent work.

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They will share their work on Saturday, March 4 at a panel at the University of Oregon Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC): “Protecting Indigenous Lands in Brazil” (9 am, UO Law School, Room 282).

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More than 20 years ago, ELAW met Nixon Sifuna, PhD, a Kenyan grassroots attorney. He traveled to Eugene in 2002 as an ELAW Fellow and I traveled to meet him in Kenya as he worked to protect forests through a case he filed at Kenya’s High Court at Eldoret....

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ELAW partners in Jamaica are celebrating a January 20 Supreme Court order halting bauxite mining next to communities in St. Ann until a claim brought by nine residents is heard later this year.

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Indoor and outdoor air pollution make people sick and kill people all over the world. To fight for clean air, community advocates need to be able to assess air quality.

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In June this year, Malene Alleyne, Jamaican international human rights lawyer and founder of Freedom Imaginaries, called on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to protect Afro-descendant families living in peasant communities in St. Ann.

Protecting our global climate is the leading challenge of our time. ELAW partners around the world are working to ensure that communities who suffer the worst impacts from damaging the climate have a voice at the table and the tools they need to win victories for a healthy planet.

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We are pleased to announce that ELAW partners at the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) were awarded a 2022 Right Livelihood Award for “tireless efforts to protect the rights of local communities from environmentally damaging projects linked to the exploitation of oil and gas.”

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This week, world leaders and activists from around the globe gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the United Nations Climate Change conference (27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC or COP27).

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One of Europe’s largest and most endangered saltwater lagoons – the Mar Menor – was recently granted special protection by Spain’s senate.

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ELAW partners in Indonesia share great news: The Bandung State Administrative Court canceled the permit for the proposed 1,320MW “PLTU Tanjung Jati A” coal-fired power plant.

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Join us in welcoming Nchunu Justice Sama, Cameroonian Environmental Lawyer and Executive Director of the Foundation for Environment and Development (FEDEV). Justice arrived in Eugene last week to collaborate on his work to protect communities and the environment across Cameroon.

ELAW collaborates with public interest lawyers around the world to protect communities and the environment. 

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Please join us in welcoming our new ELAW Fellows who arrived from Ukraine and the Democratic Republic of Congo last week.

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ELAW was recently invited to participate in a conference organized by partners at the Alianza de Derecho Ambiental y Agua (Alliance for Environmental Law and Water, ADA2.) Attorney Alejandra Serrano Pavón traveled to Guatemala City and Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, for the two-day conference organized in collaboration with Marfund, Ocean5, the Environmental Justice Forums of Peten and Izabal, the School of Judicial Studies of Guatemala, the Training Unit of the Public Ministry, and the National Council of Protected Areas.

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ELAW partner Olivier Ndoole shares great news that the mobile court formed to hear the large backlog of cases against wildlife trafficking, illegal fishing, and natural resource exploitation in Virunga National Park.

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Juana Trujillo Cardenas, a new Ecuadorian lawyer, recently completed a Killian O. Doherty Environmental Justice Fellowship.

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Rahul Choudhary of Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) shares wonderful news!

India’s National Green Tribunal (NGT) halted illegal sand mining in the villages of Tondavali and Talashil in Maharashtra State, on India’s west coast. The villages, squeezed between the Gad River and the Arabian Sea, suffer from soil erosion caused by illegal sand mining in the Gad River, and salt water intrusion from rising seas.
 

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Dr. Kateryna Polianska returned home to Kyiv last month, following a three-month ELAW Fellowship designed to help her team at Environment People Law respond to environmental threats posed by the Russian invasion.

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Please join us in welcoming new attorneys to the ELAW team!

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ELAW partners at Frank Bold Advocates share good news: Prague’s Municipal Court issued a landmark decision ordering the state to urgently take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in accordance with its obligations under European and international law.

ELAW’s team of six PhD scientists gives grassroots advocates around the world the scientific information and expertise they need to win victories for communities and the environment through law.

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ELAW Fellow Ivo Cípio Aureliano arrived in Eugene last weekend. He will work with us for 10 weeks this summer, collaborating with ELAW staff and other experts to advance his work protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon.

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After more than three years of learning and collaboration with our partners at the Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM), ELAW is pleased to report that Panama has adopted a new coral reef law, with stronger protections that hold the promise of protecting Panama’s reefs for future generations.

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This United Nations’ World Ocean Day, ELAW is collaborating with the Agua Nuestro Derecho collective to host a discussion on "Connectivity from the watershed to the Caribbean Sea."

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Last week, Nepal’s Supreme Court canceled government plans to construct an international airport in Nijgadh.

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The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHRP) issued a final report on its years long investigation into 47 investor-owned corporations for human rights abuses tied to climate change.

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Communities across Africa are watching single-use plastic flood into their countries, piling up as waste, filling drainage systems, and collecting in waterways, lakes, and oceans — and they want to push back.