Dennis BoursAug 26, 2025
🦍 Should animals be granted legal personhood? This thought-provoking piece explores the ethical, legal, and environmental implications of recognising animals as persons in law. 🐘⚖️
Read more 👉 https://360info.org/should-animals-also-be-persons-in-law/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#AnimalRights #LegalPersonhood #Ethics #WildlifeProtection
Should animals also be ‘persons’ in law? - 360

The classification of animals as ‘property’ underpins harsh judicial decisions and continues to plague the lives of animals in India. The recent Supreme Court judgment directing municipal authorities to remove stray dogs from the streets of Delhi NCR has now been modified. A three-judge bench has now ruled that municipal authorities must release dogs back […]

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A-Dub 🥝Feb 4, 2025
big news in Aotearoa/NZ — Taranaki Maunga 🏔️ becomes a legal person as Treaty settlement passes into law https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/540431/taranaki-maunga-becomes-a-legal-person-as-treaty-settlement-passes-into-law #LegalPersonhood #MountainAncestor
Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into law

Mt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history.

RNZ
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 31, 2025

New Zealand mountain granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
https://apnews.com/article/mountain-zealand-personhood-maori-taranak-590fca0f3d648cc0bf86d970782e954c
Mount Taranaki - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Taranaki

#NewZealand #Indigenous #Māori #Maori #MountTaranaki #TaranakiMaunga #MountEgmont
#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation
#LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand, which has ruled that a river and a stretch of sacred land are people before. The law fulfils a 2023 settlement between the government and Māori which provided redress for land theft and other British Crown breaches of New Zealand’s founding treaty during colonization. The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand’s North Island.

AP News
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 24, 2025

/4 Trump’s Definitions of “Male” & “Female” Are Nonsense Science w. Staggering Ramifications
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/trumps-definitions-of-male-and-female-are-nonsense-science-with-staggering-ramifications

*sex starting “at conception” = language of “fetal personhood"
* fav. pseudo-theory of anti-abortion movement
* maintains embryo is person w. full legal rights
* used in efforts to
end access to IVF
prosecute people who have miscarriages w. manslaughter
ban certain forms of birth control

#Trump2 #fascism #LegalPersonhood #FetalPersonhood #misogyny #WomensRights #transgenocide

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?"

Mother Jones
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 23, 2025

/2 Fetal personhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_human_personhood

* opinion: moment wh. human 1st recognized as person
* issue arises in science, religion, philosophy, law
* acutely in debates re: abortion/stem cells/{reproductive |fetal} rights

#abortion #personhood #LegalPersonhood
#USpol #USlaw #FetalPersonhood #pseudoscience
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #paternalism #sexism #misogyny
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WomensRights #abortion #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination

Beginning of human personhood - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 22, 2025

Trump2 anti-Trans Executive Order also a Reproductive Rights attack
https://www.them.us/story/donald-trump-anti-trans-executive-order-conception-reproductive-rights

“1st of many alarm bells that should be sounding” -- ACLU

* defines/declares sex “immutable” as trait est. at conception
* signal Trump2 will advocate for “fetal personhood"

#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #LegalPersonhood
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #Christofascism #transgenocide
#WomensRights #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#ReproductiveRights #abortion #SelfDetermination
#ACLU #GLAAD #HRC #PFLAG

Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Includes “Conception” Language That Signals Trouble for Reproductive Rights

“This is just the first of many alarm bells that should be sounding about this administration,” an ACLU spokesperson told Them.

Them.
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 13, 2025

Nature Goes to Court
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/01/nature-goes-court

* natures takes stand in climate litigation
* courtrooms worldwide battleground for Earth’s rights
* environment as plaintiff demanding justice/accountability
* benefits humanity

India's top court: Pollution-free environment a fundamental right
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pollution-free-environment-fundamental-right-indias-top-court-says-2024-10-23

#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateLitigation
#LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

Nature Goes to Court

Nature is taking the stand as courtrooms worldwide become battlegrounds for Earth’s rights. The rise in climate litigation shows how the environment can take centre stage as a plaintiff, demanding justice and accountability, benefiting us all. On 23 October 2024, India’s Supreme Court declared a pollution-free environment a fundamental right, underscoring the government’s duty to …

Inter Press Service
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 13, 2025

Indigenous tribe regaining control of ancestral lands while fighting climate change
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112899057042227042

* f. dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe better able to protect their environment
* note also Magpie River (legal personhood)
* ...

#environmentalism #EnvironmentalRights #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #LegalPerson #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver #EnvironmentalPersonhood
#Indigenous #autonomy

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29, 2024

Indigenous tribe regaining control of ancestral lands while fighting climate change
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112899057042227042

* From dismantling dams to restoring land rights, Yurok tribe are better able to protect their environment

#Indigenous #autonomy #EnvironmentalHealth #ClimateChange #California #Klamath #environmentalism #LegalPersonhood #MagpieRiver

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 13, 2024

Judith Deutsch, Science For Peace

Brilliant essay! Bear through opening paragraphs; 5-10' read

Killing Knowledge
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113283950252848660

* aggression/wars/nuclear proliferation
* narcissistic leaders
* misogyny; racism
* psychology: motives
* genocides; international justice
* 3rd world debt
* egregious wealth/tax havens
* confiscating assets

#peace #ScienceForPeace #JudithDeutsch #capitalism #corporations #LegalPersonhood #StructuralViolence #HigherEducation #IAEA #NPT #AssetForfeiture