Tribes grant the Colorado River legal personhood

Indigenous tribes in the southwestern US, led by the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), have granted the Colorado River legal personhood to help protect it for future generations. In November 2025, the CRIT, made up of the Mojave, Hopi, Navajo and Chemehuevi tribes, passed the resolution recognising the river as a living, life-giving entity with rights like a person. The Colorado River is currently facing the worst drought in 1,200 years. The seven US states that share the…

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Gisèle Pelicot’s powerful interview with BBC

Gisèle Pelicot has told BBC Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire that her strength comes from her "DNA". Ms Pelicot was at the centre of the largest rape trial in French history. For almost a decade, she had been drugged unconscious by her husband Dominique Pelicot and raped by dozens of men he had recruited on internet chat rooms.She made the remarkable decision to let the world know who she was, waiving her legal right to anonymity, before the trial began.In…

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