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These rights include, among others, the recognition that "Mother Earth and all beings of which she is composed have... the right to life and to exist" [98] as well as the "right to integral health". [98] The UDRME adds that "[e]ach being has the right to a place and to play its role in Mother Earth for her harmonious functioning". [98] [3]
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. In 2008, the people of Ecuador amended their Constitution to recognize the inherent rights of nature, or Pachamama.The new text arose in large part as a result of cosmologies of the indigenous rights movement and actions to protect the Amazon, consistent with the concept of sumak kawsay ("buen vivir" in Spanish, "good living" in English), or encapsulating a life ...
The FBISE was established under the FBISE Act 1975. [2] It is an autonomous body of working under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. [3] The official website of FBISE was launched on June 7, 2001, and was inaugurated by Mrs. Zobaida Jalal, the Minister for Education [4] The first-ever online result of FBISE was announced on 18 August 2001. [5]
In 1978 in New York, mother and environmentalist Lois Gibbs led her community in protest after discovering that their entire neighborhood, Love Canal, was built on top of a toxic dump site. The toxins in the ground were causing illness among children and reproductive issues among women, as well as birth defects in babies born to pregnant women ...
Based on comparative analysis of textual and epigraphic evidence, historical linguists and philologists have been able to reconstruct with a comfortable level of certainty several epithets and expressions that were associated with *Dʰéǵʰōm in Proto-Indo-European times: *Pl̥th₂éwih₂ (the 'Broad One'), *Dʰéǵʰōm Méh₂tēr ('Mother-Earth'), and, in this form or a similar one ...
Abercrombie & Fitch's chairman and chief executive Michael Jeffries, in this Feb. 16, 1998, file photo, has a contract that includes a $1 million annual salary & a retirement package not tied to ...
Now in a new study, scientists are arguing that a 10th boundary could be added to the list—aquatic deoxygenation. Some bodies of water in the world (such as basins in the Black Sea, the Baltic ...
The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to reduce its benchmark policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point at the end of its policy meeting on Thursday, a decision that may seem a footnote given ...