Talk:Law of the Rights of Mother Earth

This is an important item. It is topical and may take a while to document, however, please be patient.Rstafursky (talk) 02:55, 13 April 2011 (UTC) Added link to this article from Natural landscape.Rstafursky (talk) 03:06, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

What happened with this law?
It is amazingly difficult to find any information on this law. Has it been passed? The Wikipedia article currently says that it:
 * ...was passed by Bolivia's Plurinational Legislative Assembly in December 2010.[1] This 10 article law is derived from the first part of a longer draft bill that is scheduled to be considered by the Assembly in 2011.[2] The short version was rushed to be presented by president Evo Morales at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

It appears to be true that a short version of the law was rushed through in December 2010 so it could be presented at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The reference 1 that is used for this fact is no longer available online, but it appears to be the same article that is available here, and the original reference used by Carwil is available here. Both of these articles confirm this fact.

Was a longer version of this scheduled to be considered in 2011? The reference 2 that was used for this fact does not actually say anything about this. There are a variety of news articles online that indicate that Bolivia was going to do something with the Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra in April 2011. However, it is unclear to me what this was. Was a new version of the law going to be voted on in Bolivia, or was the December 21, 2010 version of the law simply being presented to the UN? Also, I can not find any reference from afterwards that confirms that the bill actually was passed, if a new version was being considered.

If anyone has more information to update this article, that would be great.

Millifolium (talk) 20:51, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * A complete text was agreed between the Pact of Unity and a Senate committee charged with the issue in July 2011
 * However, as of November (and I'm fairly certain as of now), the law was not passed (On its need see this ref .)
 * More generally, a Ley Corta may or may not require a longer law in Bolivia, but this version definitely does. It was widely understood that the Ley Corta was rushed for passage to present at Cancun, but I don't think have a ref.--Carwil (talk) 22:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The law was passed and came into effect on Oct. 15, 2012 according to this article which also says that implementation has been slow. This page definitely needs major edits to reflect the current status, and I'm not entirely sure where to begin. Wurdeh (talk) 00:22, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Law full name changed on passage?
It looks like the name of the law was changed before it passed. As a first step in updating this article, I wonder if it is necessary to create a new article under the correct name?

Ley Marco de la Madre Tierra y Desarrollo Integral para Vivir Bien is translated here as Framework Law on Mother Earth and Integral Development to Live Well

Here is a slight variation: Framework Law on Mother Earth and Integral Development for Living Well Wurdeh (talk) 03:40, 12 October 2014 (UTC)