Join a stellar lineup of international environmental law and human rights legal experts who will discuss and assess why ecocide must be recognised in the European Environmental Crime Directive, and more extensively in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 

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The panel will debate philosophical, legal, economic and policy questions that will highlight the importance of ecocide law in European policies, showing that the recognition of ecocide is an increasingly popular and necessary demand to protect the future of life on Earth.

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Speakers:

Jojo Mehta: 

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International

Marie Toussaint:

French environmental activist, a jurist in international environmental law, co-founder of the association Notre affaire à tous, elected MEP on the Greens/EFA and  founder of the International Parliamentary Alliance for the recognition of ecocide.

Harriet Mackaill-Hill:

EU Climate Governance and Human Rights Policy Coordinator, CAN EUROPE.

Olivier De Schutter:

Professor of human rights at UCLouvain and at SciencesPo. He is the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

Moderator: 

Chloé Mikolajcak

Environmental justice activist and campaigner.

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The focus of the ecocide mobilisation in March 2022 is to keep the pressure on EU leaders and institutions to recognize the crime of ecocide.

The proposal published by the European Commission for the revision of the Environmental Crime Directive is insufficient and incomplete.

While 38% of the responses to the public consultation called for the recognition of ecocide and while Member States such as Belgium and Finland are making progress on this issue, the European Commission remains stubborn and refuses to recognise, define and therefore condemn these most serious environmental crimes, even if it is mentioned briefly in the recital.

Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, stated that there was not yet “sense of urgency” in the population to recognize ecocide. Let’s show him that there already is!

On December 7, 2020, water was put on the stock exchange 

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The financialization of this vital good will have terrible consequences for millions or even billions of people who cannot afford drinking water. This is why after our first action on December 7, we are organizing a 2nd gathering this Tuesday, March 22 in front of the Brussels Stock Exchange from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. on World Water Day.  

On the initiative of the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth (AHT) and the support of the North-South Forum , Rise for Climate Belgium , Attac Wallonia-Brussels , this event will be held around a statue of spoliation "" The Rain Gatherer " created by the writer and artist Bernard Tirtiaux  

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Objective: to denounce the spoliation of the universal right to life and of water as a global public common good operated by the current predatory finance and, in this perspective, to support the elected representatives of the European Parliament demanding the LIBERATION OF WATER FROM THE STOCK EXCHANGE  

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The value of life should be set by citizens and not by markets and stock exchanges. More details in the petition launched  HERE

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There is an urgent need to re-invent justice and democracy, from the local scale to the global community of life on Earth.
Let's start by releasing the water. Predators are taking advantage of its scarcity as water shortages caused by climate change, waste and pollution are on the rise across the planet and threaten to aggravate genocides and water wars. 

Symbolic action in front of  the EU Council under the presidency of Macron.

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It is time to change the national, European and international rules and protect our common home, the Earth!

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We cannot rely on these non-binding agreements by governments, such those at the COP. As the European Union prepares to revise its environmental criminal law, we, the citizens, must continue to put pressure on the European institutions to recognise ecocide and protect life. 

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As the European Union prepares to revise its environmental criminal law, we citizens must continue to press to compel European institutions to recognize ecocide and protect living organisms.

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We will join Youth for Climate and take  the streets again on the 25th of March and we need you with us!  

"We have been striking now for over two years, and it has had a huge political impact.
So what we do, works. But we need to keep doing it.
This global strike will focus on #PeopleNotProfit. Highlighting the fact that the climate struggle is a class struggle and for years, the ruling class, primarily through corporations and governments from the Global North have exercised their power, gained through colonialism, white supremacy and exploitation, to destroy the earth and its occupants with no remorse. 
They have deliberately sacrificed the Global South’s ecosystems and peoples for the sake of their so-called “development” and everlasting “economic growth”. Meanwhile, the working class is used as tools to build the very system that is destroying them. 
So we refuse to be a part of this system and we strike again, in all countries around the world. 
Join us in Brussels. And make sure to bring some friends! 

The exact location and further practical details will be announced shortly!" YFC

As part of the week to fight against ecocide integrated into the "European march: Stop Ecocide everywhere!" campaign, Espirito Munodo is organizing an exhibition of two committed photographers.

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  Wout de Rider , biologist, and photographer - activist for the protection of the environment. 

https://woutderidder.myportfolio.com/

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François Dvorak , Belgian photographer-reporter, activist and activist, works on human rights issues and more specifically on mobilizations related to ecology. 

https://fdvphotoreporter.wixsite.com/monsite/

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This event assesses how and why the recognition of ecocide as an international crime raises several questions for states, citizens but also economic actors. By facilitating an interdisciplinary discussion, End Ecocide Belgium and the ERC Curiae Virides Research Project of the Brussels School of Governance (VUB) aim at shedding light on the main implications of recognizing ecocide as a crime against humanity, as well as the opportunities for protecting ecosystems. The webinar will assess in particular how ecocide is progressively reaching the agenda of policymakers in Belgium and in the EU and how more and more countries express their support for the inclusion of ecocide in the Rome Statute.