The More Than Human Rights (MOTH) Project is an interdisciplinary initiative advancing rights and well-being for humans, non-humans, and the web of life that sustains us all.

2024 MOTH Course

The second installment of the Global Program will take place from May 6 - May 10, 2024 in Quito, Ecuador, as a collaboration between the NYU MOTH Project and the Andina University Símon Bolívar.

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2023 MOTH Conference

The 2023 MOTH Conference convened leading thinkers and doers from diverse fields, from human rights law to Indigenous advocacy to philosophy to biological sciences, promoted creative ways of thinking, and facilitated the development of the substantive details that will put more than human (MOTH) rights on firmer ground.

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Highlights

01 | 24 | 2024 - Science

Science Across Cultures

The MOTH Project is working with mycologists, the Sarayaku nation, filmmakers and storytellers, and others to pursue forms of scientific collaboration across Indigenous and Western cultures that advance protections and paradigms for the more-than-human world.

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03 | 08 | 2024 - Publications

Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination in Emergence Magazine

MOTH Director César Rodríguez-Garavito shares the ideas, concepts, and inspirations underpinning more-than-human rights in an op-ed in Emergence Magazine.

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01 | 24 | 2024 - Publications

The MOTH Project Is Featured in The Guardian

The NYU MOTH Project was recently covered in an article, "Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream," by Jonathan Watts in The Guardian.

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01 | 16 | 2024 - Publications, Arts

José Gualinga Montalvo: ‘The jungle is a living, intelligent and conscious being’

The Sarayaku people of the Ecuadorian Amazon propose that human societies should be governed by the concept of 'Kawsak Sacha', or 'Living Forest', in order to change the destructive relationships that have led the planet to climate collapse.

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