Posts Tagged: "Bolivia"

Child Labor in Bolivia

by Shannon Flynn » 10 February 2016 at 7:01 pm

While most countries in the world are trying to eliminate child labor, Bolivia has legalized it. In July 2014, Bolivia passed a controversial law that allows children as young as 10 to work under certain circumstances. The United Nations recommends that the minimum age for children to do any type of work should be set […]

In Bolivia, Ecuador and Pittsburgh, Nature Has Rights

by Lili DeBarbieri » 2 June 2011 at 3:48 pm

The days of human beings having a monopoly on individual rights may soon be coming to an end. Bolivia is in the process of enacting the world’s first law giving nature legal rights equal to those of human beings. The Law of Mother Earth decrees that nature has 11 rights including the right to biodiversity […]