Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change

Contents
Foreword by Anna Grear
Foreword by Tim DeChristopher
Preface
Introduction
1. How Fracking Violates Human Rights
	Fracking, Defined
	Overview: "Rights Violations Associated with Fracking," by Linda Sheehan
	1.1 The Right to Health
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to Health
		Credo: "Fighting with Your Whole Heart: Human Rights and the New Science of Fracking," by Sandra Steingraber
	1.2 The Right to Clean Water
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to Clean Water
		Credo: "The Heart of the Monster," by David James Duncan
	1.3 The Right to Security of Person
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to Security of Person
		Credo: "Small Buried Things," by Debra Marquart
		Credo: "Security of Person? Fracking and the Contaminated Life," by Michelle Maloney
	1.4 The Right to Participate
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to Participate
		Credo: "Climate Justice Is Social Justice," by Jacqueline Patterson
		Credo: "Self-determination and the Right to Information on the Shale Gas Frontier," by Simona Perry
2. How Cimate Change Violates Human Rights
	Climate Change, Defined
	Overview: "The Declaration of Human Rights and Climate Change," by Kirsten Davies et al. and "Understanding Human Rights and Climate Change" and "Climate Change and Human Rights," by the United Nations
	2.1 The Right to Life
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to Life
		Credo: "Human Rights and Climate Change: Where We Are Now," by John H. Knox
	2.2 The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living
		Credo: "Our Covenant Is Our Relationship with the Place," by Winona LaDuke
	2.3 The Right Indigenous Peoples to Own, Use, Develop, and Control Traditional Lands and Resources
		Human Rights Law
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to the Right of Indigenous Peoples to Own, Use, Develop, and Control Traditional Lands and Water
		Credo: "Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice," by Kyle Powys Whyte
3. How Fracking and Climate Change Violate the Rights of Nature
	Nature's Rights, Defined
	Overview: "Do Fracking and Climate Change Violate Nature's Rights?" by Mari Margil
	3.1 The Right to Life and to Exist
		Nature's Rights Standards
		The Right of Mother Earth to Regenerate Its Biocapacity and to Continue Its Vital Cycles and Processes Free from Human Disruption
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony
		Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to Nature's Right to Life and to Exist
		Credo: "Together We Stand Upon Mother Earth," by Robin Kimmerer
	3.2 The Right of Mother Earth and All Beings of which She is Composed to Maintain Their Identity and Integrity as Distinct, Self-Regulating, and Interrelated Beings
		Nature's Rights Standards
		Eyewitness Testimony
		Legal and Moral Testimony 265 Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to Nature's Right to Maintain Its Identity and Integrity
		Credo: "Earth Jurisprudence," by Cormac Cullinan
4. Remedies
	Remedies, Defined
	Human Rights Law and Nature's Rights Law
	Synopsis of the Court's Advisory Opinion in Regard to Rights and Redress
	Credo: "Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Cleaning Up the Atmosphere," by Mary Christina Wood
5. The Advisory Opinion (Selections)
6. Coda: A Call to Witness
7. Further Reading
8. Appendices
	I. Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment: Declaration of Human Rights and Climate Change
	II. Members of the Panel of Judges, Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking, and Climate Change
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Names