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UCLA's new hub for research, advocacy and experiential education at the center of the international human rights and justice arenas in Europe
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Together with Climate Counsel and experts from Ukraine, we co-hosted a side event at the Assembly of States Parties outlining how environmental harm is being investigated and framed in active conflict, offering insights that are shaping approaches in other jurisdictions.
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Prosecuting Environmental War Crimes: Lessons Learned from Ukraine — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
At the Assembly of States Parties (ASP24) , experts from Ukraine and international legal organisations outlined how environmental harm is being investigated and framed in active conflict, offering ins...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The OTP Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage through the Rome Statute has been launched.

This document is the outcome of an extensive global consultation on how international criminal law can better respond to severe environmental harm.
Read more bit.ly/4rHd2Uk #probono #policypaper
OTP Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage through the Rome Statute launched — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
The OTP Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage through the Rome Statute has been launched this Thursday at the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.  ...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦?

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦?

If you are at the ASP please join us! Read more: bit.ly/48r5tIe
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Achieving people powered climate action! Watch Samia Dumbuya of the People's Ark speak about her work in London's communities.
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#climateaction #CommunitiesLondon #youcanhaveasay #peoplesark #samiadumbuya
Samia Dumbuya: achieving people powered climate action!
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November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Watch the recording of our ED reflecting on what difference the criminalization of ecocide would make for business and human rights: www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/kate-ma...

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Back to Business: Criminalizing Ecocide would shift the burden from Victim to Corporate Decision Makers — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
The criminalisation of ecocide is coming, both domestically and internationally. The real question for us, especially in the business and human rights community, is: what difference will it make? Ho...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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"...𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴."

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#ecocide #humanrights #environmentaljustice
Conference Highlights: Baroness Rosie Boycott — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Baroness Rosie Boycott opened the conference with a thoughtful keynote address.  She reflected on themes that would reappear throughout the day, beginning with the contrast between her own child...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Why is the environmental cost of war not on the agenda at COP 30 and could an international crime of ecocide change accountability?

Our ED Kate Mackintosh answers these questions on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story with Adrian Finighan.

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#ecocide #war #COP30 #conflict
Is war one of the biggest threats to the world’s climate? | Inside Story
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November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October.

Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to come.

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How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it
International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed conflicts.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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2 days to go!
You can still join us online for the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice this Friday.
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Meet the Speakers: Catherine Savard — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Catherine Savard is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, where her thesis focuses on ecocide in international law. She holds two master’s degrees, respectively from the University of ...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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#Ecocide disproportionately affects Small Island Developing States( #SIDS). Highlighting the links between environmental destruction, human rights violations and ongoing colonial practices. Conference this Friday!

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Meet the Speakers: Krishnee Adnarian Appadoo — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
The paper Exploring Ecocide and Human Rights in Small Island Developing States by Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo and Jeevesh Augnoo examines how ecocide disproportionately affects Small Island Develo...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Our ED Kate Mackintosh joined the Croatian Bar Association to discuss ecocide law: its inclusion as the fifth international crime under the Rome Statute to the EU’s new Environmental Crime Directive and its implementation by 2026.

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Our ED addresses the Croatian Bar Association on Ecocide and International Law — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Our ED Kate Mackintosh had the honor of addressing the Croatian Bar Association (CBA) this week on the topic “Criminalizing the Mass Destruction of Nature: Ecocide in National and International L...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Jojo Mehta, CEO and co-founder of Stop ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social, will join us during the evening event of the conference to update us on the #ecocidelaw movement!

🎡 Join us in London or online!

📆 31 October 2025

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Meet the Speakers: Jojo Mehta — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Jojo founded Stop Ecocide International in 2017 together with the late barrister and legal pioneer Polly Higgins , to advance the recognition of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Cour...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This opinion piece published in @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social by our ED, @katemackintosh.bsky.social, explains exactly what #ecocide is, why it should be recognised as an #internationalcrime and how it is intrinsically related to #humanrights!

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Ecocide is the Missing Crime - Icarus Complex
Criminalising ecocide is about recognising that when ecosystems collapse, so too do the conditions for human dignity.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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MSP Monica Lennon has been leading the way with the (Scotland) Ecocide (Prevention) Bill, a bold step to make severe environmental harm a crime.

She joins our Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice to discuss climate advocacy in the UK with Samia Dumbuya.

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Meet the Speakers: Monica Lennon — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Monica Lennon is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland, first elected in 2016. We invited Monica to speak at the upcoming International Conference...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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We are delighted that Kaeden Watts will dial in during the evening event of the 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 to share with us the current events surrounding Indigenous Health and Environmental Justice in New Zealand.
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Meet the Speakers: Kaeden Watts — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Kaeden Watts is an Indigenous rights advocate and policy expert from Aotearoa New Zealand tribes of Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. His areas of focus include integrating Indigenous kno...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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LISTEN NOW!

In this conversation with Initiatives pour le Désarmement
Nucléaire (IDN) France, our ED Kate Mackintosh explains what the ICJ' advisory opinion says, why it’s historic, and how it can be used, from courtrooms to climate negotiations.

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L’ENTRETIEN IDN - Kate Mackintosh
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October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Samia Dumbuya is a climate educator, facilitator, and founder of The People’s Ark, empowering marginalised communities in the UK to become active climate changemakers. Join Samia on the 31st of October in London!
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Meet the Speakers: Samia Dumbuya — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Samia Dumbuya is a climate educator, facilitator, and founder of The People’s Ark , empowering marginalised communities in the UK to become active climate changemakers. For over a decade, they’ve le...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The full programme of our upcoming International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice is now online.

Join us in London or register for the livestream.
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Meet the Speakers: Matthew Gillet — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
In his article “ Human, all too Human”: The Anthropocentricization of Ecocide , Matthew Gillet warns that defining ecocide around human interests risks undermining the ecocentric rationale for add...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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We are honoured to welcome Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka, High Commissioner of the Republic of Zambia to the United Kingdom, who will be addressing the audience during the evening programme of the conference.
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Meet the Speakers: Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
We are honoured to welcome Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka, the High Commissioner of the Republic of Zambia to the United Kingdom. With over three decades in broadcasting, governance, and diplomacy, sh...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Full Programme is now online!

The conference brings together an exceptional group of speakers from across the globe to discuss critical questions at the intersection of law, human rights, and the environment

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September 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Jonathan Liljeblad's analysis considers Myanmar's current conflict as a potential case for future ecocide prosecution. ecocide.www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/meet-the-speakers-jonathan-liljeblad
Join us at the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights & Environmental Justice -31 October
Meet the Speakers: Jonathan Liljeblad — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Jonathan Liljeblad was born in Myanmar as a member of the Pa’Oh Indiginous peoples and grew up in Sweden and the United States. His analysis Intersections of Ecocide, Indigenous Struggle, & Pro-D...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Dr. Olivia Kokushubila Lwabukuna will chair the opening panel at the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice: 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺.
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#colonialism #humanrights #environmentaljustice
Meet the Speakers: Dr Olivia Lwabukuna — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Dr. Lwabukuna is a distinguished Tanzanian legal scholar and lawyer with two decades of experience spanning academia, advocacy, and policy research across Africa and the UK. Through her work, she ac...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🌍 Can the ICJ Climate Ruling save the planet?
Join L’entretien IDN with Kate Mackintosh & Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. TODAY!!! Sept 24, 7 PM CET.
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Can the ICJ’s Climate Ruling Save the Planet? — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
📅 Join us on Wednesday, September 24, at 7 PM for a new IDN Interview ! IDN France - Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament will welcome Kate Mackintosh , Executive Director and Prof...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Humans Matter Too:
“Ecocentric” Does not Mean “Misanthropic”
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Meet the Speakers: Darryl Robinson — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Humans Matter Too: “Ecocentric” Does not Mean “Misanthropic” Meet Darryl Robinson, Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, member of Ecocide Law Advisory and part of the expert panel on the ...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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#UCLA Law in The Hague students finished their trip to Geneva with #UN legal advisor Sun Kim and Aurélie Lamazière of Save the Children International.
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Final Day in Geneva for UCLA Law in The Hague Students — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
On the last day of their visit to Geneva, the UCLA Law in The Hague students were able to sit in as states debated the reports of the working groups on arbitrary detention and enforced disappearanc...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM