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Articles by Vivek Maru
To save carbon offset projects, make them fair
“Are they buying our air?” asked Matito Leriso. We were sitting in the one-room shelter Matito built for her family in Northern Kenya. Matito is a mother, a grandmother, and an elected member of her community’s land management committee. She was asking about the world’s largest soil-based carbon project, which covers 4.5 million acres and is run by an organisation called the Northern Rangelands Trust. Carbon is an unusual trade.
Op-Ed: Why planetary survival will depend on environmental justice
Here’s a shameful fact about the 21st century: Standing up for the planet can get you killed. © (Mario Tama / Getty Images) Fire burns in a deforested section along the Interoceanic Highway in Peru's Madre de Dios region in 2013. Fires often are set to clear land for farming in the Amazon. The region has also seen deforestation from gold mining and logging.
Give the People the Law
Arguments Today in most of America, helping someone use the law is illegal unless you’re a lawyer. These restrictions damage democracy. The case for legal empowerment. By Vivek Maru from September 4, 2020, 1:49 pm – 23 MIN READ Tagged criminal justicelaw Remember Erin Brockovich? Julia Roberts plays a single mom who helps people in Hinkley, California hold Pacific Gas and Electric accountable for knowingly contaminating their water.
OPINION: Myanmar is confiscating land that people depend on
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The government’s intention is to put more land to productive economic use, but much of the land is not in fact vacant In September 2018, Myanmar ordered anyone using what it classifies as “vacant, fallow, or virgin land” to register a claim within six months. If a family or community fail to do so, they can lose their land and face imprisonment.
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice
The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. This book is about community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - who demystify law and empower people to advocate for themselves. These paralegals date back to 1950s South Africa and are active today in many countries, but their role has largely been ignored by researchers.
Search results for Law
In September 2016, a case went to trial in British Columbia that seeks to test the constitutionality of provincial laws that (1) ban private health insurance for medically necessary hospital and physician services; (2) ban extra-billing (physicians cannot charge patients more than the public tariff); and (3) require physicians to work solely for the public system or ‘opt-out’ and practice privately.
Perspective | The World Bank shouldn’t hide when it funds projects that harm communities
In the Gulf of Kutch, a rural coastal area in western India (where my family comes from), a coal plant financed by the International Finance Corp. — part of the World Bank — caused substantial environmental harm, including devastating the ecosystem relied on by a small minority group that depends on fishing to live. “The livelihoods we knew from our childhood have been destroyed,” Gajendrasinh Jadeja, a former elected head of Navinal, one of the villages neighboring the plant, told me in March.
How to put the power of law in people's hands
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To stop the relentless march of climate change we must empower those most at risk
Armando Veve These are dark days for anyone who cares about the environment. Climate change is doing irreparable harm to ecosystems and livelihoods. Humans have caused the largest mass extinction since an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago. We are on course to lose 20-50 per cent of all living species within this century. We have placed our hopes on large-scale regulation and grand multinational bargains. Those measures are now at great risk.
Only the Law Can Restrain Trump
When President Donald Trump and other populist leaders say the system is rigged, people know that it’s true. Laws work well enough for the wealthy in developed and developing nations alike, but they provide few protections for the rights of poor people. Even “single-digit” millionaires in the United States, tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently to the New Yorker, “have no effective access to a legal system.” Powerlessness brews alienation and anger.
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