A Landmark Ruling for Animal Rights in Ecuador

The First Country in The World Has Given Legal Rights to Individual ...

While some countries struggle to uphold human rights, Ecuador has forged ahead and ruled wild animals possess distinct legal rights, ...

one step forward, two steps back: the search for 'rights' in the ...

The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court ruled in the Estrellita case (2022) that animals, as elements of nature, are subjects of rights, and ordered what became the ...

Ecuador's Rights of Nature: A New Legal Momentum? – JHULR

Another recent case took Ecuadorian RoN a step further in 2022 when the Constitutional Court extended legal protection to nonhuman animals. The ...

Ecuador Becomes the First Country In the World to Give Legal ...

“The verdict raises animal rights to the level of the constitution, the highest law of Ecuador,” said Ecuadorian environmental lawyer Hugo ...

In monkey case, Ecuador High Court rules that wild animals have ...

The 7-2 ruling handed down last month in Quito is believed to be the first time a court has applied the rights of nature—laws that recognize the ...

Monkeys in Their Own Right - Verfassungsblog

The Estrellita Judgement of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court · A monkey unlawfully detained · Animals as rights holders · The right to free ...

Entry 344017 - Party for the Animals

In a historic court case, Ecuador became the first country in the world to grant individual wild animals legal rights. They are now regarded as legal ...

Ecuador Becomes First Country to Legally Recognize Wild Animals ...

Ecuador has become the first country in the world to recognize the legal rights of nonhuman animals. The landmark ruling came after the ...

Ecuador Recognizes Nonhuman Animals As Rightsholders

In a monumental decision, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador has recognized that animals can have legal rights.

Ecuador becomes first country to give legal rights to wild animals

The landmark ruling by the Quinto court came when it was hearing a case related to Estrellita, a woolly monkey. Estrellita was one-month-old ...

The Search for 'Rights' in the Ecuador Animal Rights Bill

The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court ruled in the Estrellita case (2022) that animals, as elements of nature, are subjects of rights, ...

The Implications of Environmental Personhood in Ecuador

In a 7-2 decision, they ruled that the Rights of Nature apply to animals, therefore individual animals have legal rights. [5] This landmark ...

Ecuador Becomes The First Country To Grant Legal Rights To Animals

In the landmark judgement, the court has stated that Estrellita's rights were indeed violated by the government. The court, however, added that ...

Ecuador's High Court rules that wild animals have legal rights

In a landmark decision involving a woolly monkey named Estrellita, Ecuador's High Court ruled that the country's rights of nature laws apply to individual ...

Wild animals in Ecuador now have legal rights - EcoHubMap

A landmark court ruling has led Ecuador to become the first country in the world to give legal rights to wild animals. The ruling came after ...

Articles – Animal Legal Defense Fund

In January 2022, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador issued a landmark ruling that individual wild animals are subjects of legal rights under Ecuador's ...

An Analysis of the Estrellita Constitutional Case from an Animal ...

On January 27, 2022, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador (the Court) granted judgment in the case 253-20-JH, called “Rights of Nature and Animals as ...

José-Carlos García-Rosell on LinkedIn: Constitutional Court of ...

Ecuador has recognized the legal rights of nonhuman animals. The ruling not only elevates the legal status of nonhuman animals but also ...

Ecuadorian Animal Rights Decision is Mixed Bag

The Court's groundbreaking ruling advances the constitutional protection of animals — ranging from the level of species to the individual animal ...

Ecuador's Top Court Applies the Rights of Nature to a Wild Animal ...

In a landmark legal case believed to be the first in any nation, Ecuador's High Court has ruled that a wild woolly monkey called Estrellita ...