Court enforces rights of river under Ecuador's constitution

[A] court in Ecuador ruled on Sunday that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the capital, Quito. The city government appealed the ruling, which is based on an article of Ecuador’s Constitution that recognises the rights of natural features like the Machángara River. Activists who filed the complaint said Sunday the decision is “historic”. [ . . . ] In some parts of Latin America and North America, inhabitants have Constitutional rights to a clean environment, but Ecuador is one of the few countries that recognise the rights of natural features not to be degraded or polluted.
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