Non-Human Rights: A Review Fifteen Years Later

Abstract

More than fifteen years have passed since the inclusion of the Rights of Nature in the Latin American constitutional frameworks of Ecuador (2008) and Bolivia (2010). Since then, the rights of more-than-human beings have become consolidated as a legal-political tool within a growing universal jurisdiction of Mother Earth. However, these advances coexist with an intensification of climate crises and the aggressive expansion of extractive frontiers into Indigenous territories and fragile ecosystems. This text brings together fragments from the *Non-Human Rights* project, a series of conversations held in Ecuador in 2012 with key figures involved in the constitutionalization of the Rights of Nature. These dialogues reflect on the political, cosmological, and legal foundations of the movement, and bear witness to a moment that may seem utopian today, but whose memory is crucial to preserve in order to continue imagining a more just and less violent future.