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van de Venis, Jan. Funding your lawsuit: the crowd versus

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January 2019

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R16853-100-0-E, Volume number: 2, File number: 97

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97

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van de Venis, Jan. Funding your lawsuit: the crowd versus
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Date(s):

January 2019

Place of creation:

Netherlands

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3 video files (.mov, .mp4).
1 closed caption file (.srt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 folder of textual records.

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English

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File consists of an interview with Jan van de Venis titled "Funding your lawsuit: the crowd versus" (also titled "Where human rights and the environment intersect"). The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, preview video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

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From The Green Interview website: Exclusive Green Interview with Jan van de Venis, an extraordinary Dutch lawyer working to advance the view that sustainable development is inextricably linked to human rights issues.

Jan van de Venis, an extraordinary Dutch lawyer and founder of the law firm JustLaw, speaks with Silver Donald Cameron in this exclusive Green Interview about how he connects environmental and human rights law through his work advising organizations on the links between sustainable development goals and human rights as well as train human rights institutions all over the world to work on sustainable development, including water and climate issues.

In this exclusive Green Interview, van de Venis discusses the work of Stand Up for Your Rights, a crowd-funding site called Grrowd, and the concept of Guardians for Future Generations.

STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS: Jan van de Venis is co-founder and board Chair of Stand up for your Rights," an NGO that he calls "the bridge builder between human rights development and environmental NGOs." He says the role of the organization is to link groups so they can "work on joint issues," and to show the links between human rights and sustainable development.

GRROWD: Jan van de Venis is President of Grrowd - a crowd-funding platform that raises money to help fund the efforts or "environmental defenders" and to publicize their work in order to help protect their lives. Currently, some of the cases that are featured on the site include a case involving Mexican organic farmers who are fighting against Monsanto, and in Africa a small group of people fighting to save one of the last strongholds of the rhinoceros against a coal-mining company.

GUARDIANS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: "I'm a lawyer and I actually have a whole lot of clients that do not exist yet. Who is calling out for them? Who is their lawyer, who is invoking their interests?" asks Jan van de Venis, calling on governments to install a "guardian" or "ombudsperson"- someone who would represent future generations and be the voice of long-term thinking. Guardians wouldn't just be symbolic, they would be given a strong mandate within government-backed by constitutionally recognized rights to a healthy environment-to remind law-makers to consider the interests of those not yet born.

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607799, 607800, 607801.

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