Stop Ecocide Foundation: Statement to ICC Assembly of States Parties (07/12/2021)

Stop Ecocide Foundation’s statement to the 20th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, December 2021, written and delivered here by Jojo Mehta, Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation and Co-founder & Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International.

The statement was also delivered in person during the General Debate of the Assembly on 8th December in The Hague by Katy Olivia van Tergouw, our Netherlands director. 

The written version has been officially submitted and can be viewed on the Assembly's website here.

Commonwealth Law Conference 2021 - Jojo Mehta on Ecocide (07/09/2021)

This piece was recorded by invitation for the Commonwealth Law Conference: Sustainable Justice held in Nassau, The Bahamas from 5th – 9th September 2021.

It is listed here with the kind permission of the Conference organisers.

Ecocide: a fifth crime defined (English version) - official ICC side event 7th Dec 2021 (07/12/2021)

An historic event co-hosted by three of the world's most climate-vulnerable states, Vanuatu, Samoa and Bangladesh: the presentation of the legal definition of ecocide as a 5th international crime, in the context of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

With additional diplomatic intervention from: His Excellency William Roelants de Stappers, Ambassador of Belgium to The Hague

Co-sponsored by: Republic of Vanuatu, Independent, State of Samoa, People's Republic of Bangladesh , in association with Stop Ecocide Foundation, Institute for Environmental Security, The Hague Peace Projects. Organized by Stop Ecocide International.

IUCN World Congress: Press Conference on Ecocide

This press conference Friday 10th Sept 2021 followed the unprecedented use of an IUCN rule allowing Stop Ecocide International to challenge IUCN's rejection of a motion on supporting the establishment of an international crime of ecocide by the Congress.

Described by participant IUCN veteran Professor Nicholas A Robinson as the "most important press conference of the Congress", speakers included Professor Philippe Sands QC, barrister and co-chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, and Shirleen Chin, Strategic Projects Lead for Stop Ecocide (who used the rule to raise the challenge).
(10/09/2021)

Our Foundation’s statement to the 19th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, December 2020, delivered by Jojo Mehta, Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation and Co-founder of Stop Ecocide International.

NB This is a recording of the Foundation’s official written statement which can be found on the website of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. www.coalitionfortheicc.org/general-debate-statements-asp19