PACE’s role as a ‘human rights watchdog’, a motor of ideas and a forum for debate has triggered positive change, defused conflict, and helped to steer the continent towards an ever-evolving set of shared values.Footnote
Back in 2021, the Ecuadorian government issued a landmark ruling stating that mining in its Los Cedros cloud forest violated the rights of nature. Another ruling in Ecuador stated that pollution had violated the rights of the Machángara River that runs through the capital, Quito. Beyond Ecuador...
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(2024), some countries from the global South, such as Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, Mali, and Mongolia, adopted special protection laws for the EHRDs, while the global North has been ...