How B.C. lawyers helped an Indigenous community in Peru get a river declared a person with legal rights

How B.C. lawyers helped an Indigenous community in Peru get a river declared a person with legal rights

Mariluz Canaquiri remembers playing on the banks of Peru's Marañón River as a young girl. Every morning, girls from her community fetched water from the river. "Since I was born, my parents made us walk along the river because we had crops

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