Jurist, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of Chair of Human Rights and Nature at the University of Murcia, Maria Teresa Vicente Gimenez is also a member of Women for Climate Justice.
With others, she promotesPopular Legislation Initiative (ILP) for a Legal Personality for the Mar Menor [N.d.T. Mar Menor : Mer Mineure au sud-est de Murcie en Espagne]. About this and many more, we spoke to María Teresa in the series Women builders of the future, towards a culture of non-violence. [Cliquer sur le lien pour voir tous les interviews].
Teresa Vicente has been an activist from a young age and has worked as such in the legal field for different causes, such as those of people affected by mortgages. Through her activism, Teresa Vicente is linked to the global movement for the claim of the rights of nature, where she understands and endorses the anti-nuclear cause.
A pioneer in Spain of a new model of ecological justice, María Teresa fought from the time she was a student, so that nature had rights to be defended. His doctoral thesis “ Justice and environmental law: for a model of ecological justice Is the proof.
Legal development in the field of the environment – says Dr Vicente – “is fundamental in this period of need for an energy transition to another model”. The climate crisis situation places us face to face with the urgent need to legislate in favor of the natural environment.
Maria Teresa Vicente Gimenez is working today to ensure that the Sea lagoon Less be considered as a subject of legal law in order to be able to be defended against the degradation she undergoes because of economic interests. To do this, in collaboration with the platform ILP Mar Menor – Rights of the Sea it collects half a million signatures, so that this Popular Legislation Initiative (ILP) can be discussed in the Congress of Deputies. If such a law is passed, the Mar Menor Lagoon could be defended and would set a fundamental precedent in the Spanish state and throughout Europe.
If you have Spanish nationality, you can sign from this QR code
Or on the web:
https://www.marmenorpersona.legal
Where we also explain how to collaborate in collecting signatures.
Appreciate the vitality of this woman who defends human rights and the environment of which we are a part.
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Translated from the Spanish by Ginette Baudelet
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