Victoria Earth Rights Network

The Victoria Earth Rights Network (VERN) was founded in June 2001 to educate citizens about connections between the environment and human rights, and to empower them to take action. The network is a project of the Center for Compassionate Social Change.

Burmese ethnic minorities fleeing repression and environmental destruction

"Earth rights" is not a common phrase - yet - but it is a very simple concept. It stresses that human rights, the environment, and many important issues such as labour rights, social justice and peace, are all interconnected. As environmentalists, or human rights activists, or social justice advocates, we cannot afford to separate or isolate our concerns.

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Earth rights defender murdered in Mexico -- Amnesty International Canada, (24 October 2001)

A leading Mexican human rights lawyer was found shot to death on Friday, October 19. Digna Ochoa y Plácido defended imprisoned environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera.
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EU probes Burma pipeline abuses (BBC 12 October 2001)

The European Parliament demands answers from British and French oil companies over human rights abuses in Burma.
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Contact the Victoria Earth Rights Network:

earthrights@socialchangenow.ca

Links to other earth rights campaigns:

Amnesty International Just Earth! campaign

Earth Rights International

Sierra Club Human Rights and the Environment campaign

CorpWatch Climate Justice campaign

Rainforest Action Network U'Wa campaign: supporting indigenous communities

We are associated with the Victoria EcoEcumenical Community House, a Christian-based community linking spirituality with justice, ecology and passionate activism.