Dr Yenny VEGA CARDENAS

President, International Observatory of the Rights of Nature/ Observatoire international des droits de la Nature

Yenny Vega Cárdenas is President of the International Observatory on the Rights of Nature, Expert member of UN Harmony with Nature chapter. She has been involved in the recognition of Rights and Personhood to the Magpie River, first in Canada’s history. Lawyer in Quebec (Canada) and in Colombia, with a Master's degree in Business Law and a Ph.D. in Water Resources Law, she teaches Public International Law, Water & Governance and Comparative Law at numerous Universities in Canada and Latin America. She co-directed recently a multilingual collective book related to the recognition of Nature and Rivers as subject of Rights. “A personhood and Rights for the Saint-Lawrence River and other rivers of the world” And she is actively promoting the recognition of the Saint-Lawrence River as a subject of Rights.