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Press highlights
How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws
Inside Climate News
A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an international push to translate Indigenous customs into binding protections.
Press highlights
Ecuador forest’s musical sounds: Ecosystem could gain legal recognition of artwork
Al Jazeera
Highlights
Researchers are Using AI to Understand what Animals are Saying
Time
Climate & Environment
The Guardian
- Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them? (2026)
- Earth’s underground networks of fungi need urgent protection, say researchers (2025)
- Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognized as song co-creator (2024)
- UK government can never accept idea nature has rights, delegate tells UN (2024)
- Should Forests have rights? (2024)
- Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream? (2024)
- Fungi could be given same status as flora and fauna under conservation plan (2024)
- Legal bid for Ecuador forest to be recognised as song co-creator (2024)
INTERCIDS podcast
Más que humanos, con César Rodríguez-Garavito (2026)
Inside Climate News
- How a Groundbreaking Indigenous Treaty on Whales’ Rights Could Change National Laws (2026)
- Ecuadorians to Vote on Constitutional Rewrite, Possibly Gutting Rights of Nature (2025)
- AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? (2025)
New York Times
- Can the Galápagos Adapt to Airbnb? (2025)
- The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault (2025)
National Geographic
Whales could one day defend themselves in court-and in their own words (2025)
Time
Researchers are Using AI to Understand what Animals are Saying (2025)
Mongabay
- Youth and women find success in taking climate cases to court (2025)
- How to use the law to save the planet | Against all odds (2025)
Atmos
- The Rights of Nature: Rewriting the Law For a Living Planet (2025)
- AI could help us talk to Animals – but should it? (2024)
Sierra – The Magazine of the Sierra Club
How Recognizing Nature as an Artist Is Helping Protect It (2025)
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Rights of Nature (2025)
Ideas for Good
How should humans behave as part of nature? (2025)
Al Jazeera English
- Ecuador forest’s musical sounds: Ecosystem could gain legal recognition of artwork (2024)
- Why is an Ecuador forest petitioning for the rights to a song? (2024)
BBC
This Ecuadorian forest thrived amid deforestation after being granted legal rights (2024)
CBC
Can a forest write a song? Ecuador copyright claim puts ‘rights of nature’ to the test (2024)
Emergence Magazine
MOTH: Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination (2024)
El Espectador
COP16: la propuesta que quiere cambiar la histórica exclusión de los hongos (2024)
The Atlantic
How First Contact with Whale Civilization Could Unfold (2024)
The Wave Net
‘A revolutionary time’: How law and science are working together to secure the rights of nature (2023)
The Week
Ecuador’s cloud forest has legal rights – and maybe a song credit (2024)
Primicias
La increíble historia de Los Cedros en Ecuador, el bosque que podría ser coautor de una canción (2024)
YES! Media
The Rights of Nature prevail again in Ecuador (2024)
AFP
World’s major courts take growing role in climate fight (2025)
WIPR
Urgen cambios para enfrentar el calor extremo (2025)
New York Times
Can the Galápagos adapt to Airbnb? (2025)
The Wave
The legal tussle to hold corporate polluters accountable for climate loss and damage (2025)
Bloomberg Law
Youth Climate Rights Case Makes Lasting Mark Despite Near Defeat (2024)
Atmos
Your 2023 Climate Wins Wrapped (2023)
Knowable Magazine
The challenges and promises of climate lawsuits (2023)
Verfassungsblog
Lessons on “Adaptation Litigation” from the Global South (2022)
BBC
The human right that benefits nature (2021)
Sapiens
The Fight to Secure Rights for Rainforests (2021)
The Morning Context
India tightens noose around NGOs (2021)
Technology & Human Rights
Biometric Update
- ‘Economic identity’: are digital ID schemes a ‘road to Hell?’ asks human rights report (2022)
- Industry, civil society weigh in on biometrics policy in letters to White House (2022)
- Digital ID not increasing inclusivity as advertised, civil society groups argue (2021)
- Digital ID case studies suggest solvable technical issues, but raise fundamental questions (2023)
The Wire
CoWin Fiasco Should Alert Us to Hidden Agendas Behind Digital Identity-Based Governance (2023)
The Africa Hour Podcast
Podcast: Will digital IDs deliver for the Rwandan people? (2023)
Reuters
FEATURE-Uganda sued over digital ID system that excludes millions (2022)
Spiegel
- »Oft ist das eine Frage von Leben und Tod« (2021)
- Millions of Ugandans denied vital services over digital ID cards (2021)
The Guardian
Uganda’s ID scheme excludes nearly a third from healthcare, says report (2021)
Unfair ID
Silent Injustice (2023)
Wired
The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret (2023)
How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare (2023)
Hubert Guillaud
Dans la machine à suspicion : des limites des systèmes de scoring de l’aide sociale à Rotterdam (2023)
Context
What does the AI Act mean for digital rights in the EU? (2023)
Right to Education
RTE participates in ESCR-Net webinar on the growing influence of technology companies in the public sector (2023)
Nubian Rights Forum
The Growing Influence of Tech Companies in Critical Public Services (2023)
Racism & Technology Center
Denmark’s welfare fraud system reflects a deeply racist and exclusionary society (2023)
Human Rights Movement
Al Jazeera
Nowhere to Belong: Inside the Dominican Republic’s Crackdown on Haitians (2025)
The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
In a Climate of Slander and Hate, Haitian Immigrants Organize Across Borders. (2024)
Anti-Blackness Knows No Borders and Neither Should Haitian Migrant Rights Advocacy (2023)
La Croix
États-Unis : les migrants haïtiens ont quitté la frontière mexicaine (2021)
Le Nouvelliste
Il n’y a pas une invasion haïtienne à la frontière du Mexique avec les Etats-Unis », estime Claude Joseph (2021)
BBC Radio
US begins mass expulsion of Haitians (2021)
USA Today
Del Rio migrant crisis: How did so many Haitians end up at the southern US border? (2021)
Haïti Liberté
Black Immigrant Lives Matter 2020
The New York Times
Metal Mining Would Be Disastrous for Haiti (2018)
Miami Herald
Ending TPS for Haitians was unlawful — and racist, too (2018)
Inequalities
The Guardian
- UK bus privatisation breached basic rights, says ex-UN rapporteur (2021)
- Bus privatisation has destroyed a British public service – but there is a way back (2021)
The Telegraph
Thatcher’s bus privatisation legacy castigated by former UN adviser (2021)
The Mirror
UK bus system ‘expensive, unreliable and dysfunctional’ and a key factor in poverty (2021)
Glasgow Times
Bus services ‘falling apart’ report warns as Glasgow group wants public ownership (2021)
Yorkshire Post
UK bus services ‘scaled back dramatically’ since privatisation, says former UN inspector (2021)
The National
Scotland and UK privatised bus services condemned as ‘dysfunctional’ in US report (2021)
The Tribune
The Scandal of Britain’s Privatised Buses (2021)
Oxfam EQUALS Podcast
Buses and the Inequality Crisis (2021)
The Star
Kenya being pushed to privatize health – report (2021)
Devex
De-facto privatization of health in Kenya limits access, says report (2021)
The Standard
How Kenyans fund private healthcare to their poverty, early graves (2021)
Spice FM
The Impact of Privatizing Healthcare in Kenya (2022)
Oxfam EQUALS Podcast
Will the Pandemic Change Healthcare Forever? (2021)
Big Issue North
Why don’t we just… take public control of our buses? (2021)
The Herald
Scotland’s Bus Crisis: Privatised service isn’t working for passengers (2021)
The Daily Nation
Too Much Faith in Private Health Sector is Misplaced (2021)
Africa Uncensored
Privatizing Healthcare is Failing Kenyans (2021)
The Washington Post
Why is the U.S. trying to export its flawed health-care policies around the world? (2022)
Open Global Rights
Stealth privatization: Kenya’s approach to universal health coverage is a private sector giveaway (2022)
Prevention & Conflict
Huff Post
Abusing Immigration Law to Target Muslims (2011)
LA Times
Muslims targeted in U.S. terrorism cases, report says (2011)
Democrats demand probe into destruction of tapes (2007)
NPR
Rights Groups Allege ‘Ghost Detainees’ Held by U.S. (2007)
OpEd News
Bush Running Kidnapping Ring; 39 More “Disappeared” Suspects Found (2007)
Reuters
Pakistani with U.S. bounty said helping de-radicalize militants (2012)
Groups list 39 “disappeared” in U.S. war on terror (2007)
Riverdale Press
Report says FBI baited Newburgh 4 (2011)
The Guardian
UK ‘breaking law’ over CIA secret flights (2005)
La Croix
États-Unis : les migrants haïtiens ont quitté la frontière mexicaine (2021)
Le Nouvelliste
Il n’y a pas une invasion haïtienne à la frontière du Mexique avec les Etats-Unis », estime Claude Joseph (2021)
BBC Radio
US begins mass expulsion of Haitians (2021)
USA Today
Del Rio migrant crisis: How did so many Haitians end up at the southern US border? (2021)
Haïti Liberté
Black Immigrant Lives Matter 2020
The New York Times
Metal Mining Would Be Disastrous for Haiti (2018)
Miami Herald
Ending TPS for Haitians was unlawful — and racist, too (2018)
