12th Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature to Commemorate International Mother Earth Day - 24 April 2023 Panel 2. On the Scope of an Earth Assembly Catalina Vallejo | Professor of Public International Law

12th Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature to Commemorate International Mother Earth Day - 24 April 2023 Panel 2. On the Scope of an Earth Assembly Catalina Vallejo | Professor of Public International Law Thank you for giving me the floor. I speak today in my role as an academic. I teach international law at Eafit University and conduct research on the rights of Nature at UNAULA university, both in Colombia. I am involved in a research project called Riverine rights, funded by the Research Council of Norway, where together with an international team of scholars we study recent developments on the rights of the Atrato river in Colombia, The Ganga and Yamuna rivers in India, and the Whanganui River in New Zealand, all recognized back in 2017. Similar to the experience of Brazil, just mentioned, Colombia’s social movements also have a long history of struggles to advance socio economic and cultural rights. On this occasion I would like to emphasize the importance of the Colombian Constitutional Court's ruling of 2016, which declared a violation of biocultural rights in the Atrato River basin. This historic decision was the result of socio-economic rights litigation. It recognized the Atrato River as a subject of biocultural rights, including the rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration. The court acknowledged the close relationship between the river and the Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities that rely on it for their livelihoods, cultural identity, and spiritual well-being. The ruling affirmed the need to protect the river and its ecosystems as part of the broader effort to safeguard the human rights of ethnic communities and promote environmental protection in Colombia.

• Autores: Vallejo Piedrahita, Catalina
• Tipo de recurso: Conferencia (Ponencia)
• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana UNAULA
• Repositorio: Repositorio Institucional UNAULA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unaula.edu.co:123456789/3248
• Acceso en línea: http://repositorio.unaula.edu.co:4000/handle/123456789/3248
• Palabra clave: United Nations; General Assembly; Research Council of Norway; UNAULA university; Mother Earth Day; Harmony with Nature; Colombia; Riverine Rights
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2