#Latest news with #ecologicalJusticeTimes22-05-2025PoliticsTimesMonica Feria-Tinta: ‘You can't separate humans from nature'Monica Feria-Tinta is passionate about the 'power of the law to create change and redress the environmental harm and ecological degradation' caused by mankind. The Peruvian barrister has been a pioneer in the 'quiet revolution' over the past decade as ordinary people have turned to the courts to fight the damage done to 'power western civilisation' at the expense of the natural world. Feria-Tinta has represented indigenous people from the Torres Strait against the government of Australia in a precedent-setting case in which a court ruled that state failings on the climate crisis violated their human rights. And the barrister has represented rivers, a cloud forest and endangered species, becoming what she calls herself in the title of her recently published book, A Barrister for
Times22-05-2025PoliticsTimesMonica Feria-Tinta: ‘You can't separate humans from nature'Monica Feria-Tinta is passionate about the 'power of the law to create change and redress the environmental harm and ecological degradation' caused by mankind. The Peruvian barrister has been a pioneer in the 'quiet revolution' over the past decade as ordinary people have turned to the courts to fight the damage done to 'power western civilisation' at the expense of the natural world. Feria-Tinta has represented indigenous people from the Torres Strait against the government of Australia in a precedent-setting case in which a court ruled that state failings on the climate crisis violated their human rights. And the barrister has represented rivers, a cloud forest and endangered species, becoming what she calls herself in the title of her recently published book, A Barrister for
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