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Council of Canadians, Fundacion Pachamama and Global Alliance, ‘Does Nature Have Rights: Transforming Grassroots Organizing to Protect the People and the Planet‘ 2010
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Declaration – Blue Pavilion – Peoples’ Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012
Earth Law Centre Fighting for our Shared Future: Protecting Both Human Rights and Nature’s Rights (2016)
Goldtooth, T. & Biggs S. Rights of Nature and Mother Earth: Sowing Seeds of Resistance, Love and Change
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