MARS VOOR BIODIVERSITEIT EN ERKENNING VAN ECOCIDE ALS MISDAAD
Zondag 21 mei 2023
14.00 uur om 17.00 uur
Poelaertplein
AMAZONIA, JOINING FORCES TO PROTECT OUR COMMON FUTURE
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
In-person film and discussion event
Co-hosts: Planète Amazone, Alliance of Mother Nature's Guardians, Le Fonds Leopold III pour l’Exploration et la Conservation de la Nature
Venue: Hôtel ZERO 1, 1 René-Lévesque Est, Montréal, QC H2X 3Z5
Time: 14:30 - 16.30
The future of the Amazon and its Indigenous peoples is more threaten than ever. Even though the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has brought hope, the challenges remain enormous in a deeply polarized country. But it’s not all up to Brazil. The fate of the Amazon rainforest is a concern for the entire world and will require support from global citizens if we want to stop the catastrophic loss of biodiversity. The new administration has pledge to urgently demarcate and protect all indigenous territories. This will only be achieved if Western countries cooperate and if Ecocide is recognize as an international crime.
Two panels (1 hour each) :
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How recognizing Ecocide as a law can help to secure the protection of the Amazon
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Mobilizing at a global scale to help finalizing the demarcation of Indigenous territories
Each panel will start with an exclusive 5 minutes presentation of the forthcoming documentary film ‘Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth’, directed and produced by Gert-Peter Bruch and Esmeralda de Belgique.
HRH Princess Esmeralda of Belgium
Esmeralda of Belgium is a journalist, author and keynote speaker. She has also co-produced three documentaries and written books about her family, environmental issues and female Nobel Peace Prize winners. Daughter of King Leopold, who visited the Xingu with the Vilas Boas in 1964, she is the President of Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation created by her late father in 1972. A campaigner for the environment and human rights, particularly for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, she is an ambassador for WWF UK and Stop Ecocide International. Making this film gave her the opportunity to follow in his father's footsteps into the lands of the Kayapo peoples, nearly 60 years after him.
Gert-Peter Bruch is a director and keynote speaker on environmental issues. After the success of his first documentary film “Terra Libre” on the topic of the Amazon forests and the strong detailed impression it gave on the topic for professional eye, he decided to direct this film to a wider audience.. Gert-Peter Bruch has been committed to the protection of the Amazonian forest for over 30 years, and supported the first international campaign with chief Raoni. He has organized numerous field and awareness campaigns, including three international tours of chief Raoni.
Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation, Convenor of the Expert panel for the legal definition of ecocide.
Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support making severe harm to nature an international crime.
As key spokesperson and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, Jojo has overseen the remarkable growth of the global movement while coordinating legal developments, diplomatic traction and public narrative. She is also Chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow.
Puyr Tembe
Puyr Tembe is an indigenous leader from the Tembe people in Brazil. She is president of the State Federation of Indigenous Peoples of Pará, a member of the executive branch of the Union of Indigenous Women of the Brazilian Amazon and the co-founder of Anmiga (National Association of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality). She dedicates her time to campaigning and negotiating on behalf of the Tembe and other indigenous tribes with the government in Brasilia, making her one of the most senior women in the tribe.
Severn Suzuki
Executive Director, David Suzuki Foundation
Severn has been an activist for intergenerational justice her whole life. In Grade 5, her deep concern for the environment compelled her and some friends to start the Environmental Children's Organization, culminating in a speech she gave to the UN Earth Summit in 1992 at age 12. It’s still making the rounds today as “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes.”
Today Severn’s focus is the nexus of decline in diversity of biodiversity, world views, economies, language, traditional knowledge and identity. She holds an M.Sc. in ethnoecology from the University of Victoria, and is currently a Vanier and Public scholar PhD candidate studying endangered language revitalization.
In September 2021, Severn became executive director of the David Suzuki Foundation, where she and the team work to protect nature’s diversity and the well-being of all life, now and for the future.
Severn lives in Vancouver, B.C. (the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations), with her husband Judson Brown and their two sons.
Sophie Dembinski
Global Head of Public Policy & UK, Ecosia
Sophie is Ecosia's Global Head of Public Policy & UK where she leads on tech and climate policy for one of the worlds largest reforestation organisations and nonprofit tech companies. She is an experienced international policy and regulatory expert, has authored a number of articles and op-eds and is a psychological therapist and leadership coach. She is an Advisory Board Member of Stop Ecocide Foundation, an Ambassador for the social mobility charity Debate Mate and the UK coordinator for the eminent transatlantic leadership programme, the Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF).
MODERATORS
Lino Paoletti is a UN Youth Delegate on Biodiversity and is thus representing the French-speaking youth from Belgium on those matters. During his mandate, he made a focus on Transformative Education as a lot of other young people across the world thanks to the Global Youth Biodiversity Network.
As a living, he is building a non lucrative organization which aims at making sustainable food accessible to everybody, even in the poor neighborhoods.
Dana May Dolezsar is an artist, activist, speaker and film maker living and working on unceded Coast Salish Territories in what we now call Vancouver, BC. She has a particular fondness for working on Indigenous Canadian films and has had the pleasure of working as a Property Master for writer/director Marie Clements on the award winning films Red Snow, The Road Forward and most recently Bones of Crows. Dana is also an activist fighting for climate justice and believes strongly in non-violent direct action. She is currently working with Stop Ecocide Canada in pursuit of an international law criminalizing ecocide. She has been witness to the devastating effects of old growth logging at Adai'tsk (Fairy Creek) and also supports the Tsleil-Waututh Nation is their fight against the TransMountain pipeline Expansion.
Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth - special presentation
Thursday 15th December, 2022
17.00 - 18.30
UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Sherbrooke Building, UQAM, 200 Sherbrooke Street West
Amphitheatre SH-2800
Time: 17:00 - 18.30
Film and Discussion Event
Co-hosts: Planète Amazone, Alliance of Mother Nature's Guardians, Fonds Leopold III pour l’Exploration et la Conservation de la Nature
Venue: UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Sherbrooke Building, UQAM, 200 Sherbrooke Street West
Amphitheatre SH-2800
Time: 17:00 - 18.30
An exclusive 30 minutes preview presentation of the forthcoming documentary film ‘Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth’, directed and produced by Gert-Peter Bruch and Esmeralda de Belgique.
The following debate will discuss the urgent need of mobilizing at a global level to support demarcation of all indigenous peoples territories, a plan that elect president Lula as promised to fullfill while campaigning. Panel will include indigenous, civil society and youth climate activist representatives.
Speakers: Gert-Peter Bruch, Esmeralda of Belgium, Jojo Mehta, Archana Soreng. Moderator: Gisele Kayembe Fontaine.
HRH Princess Esmeralda of Belgium
Esmeralda of Belgium is a journalist, author and keynote speaker. She has also co-produced three documentaries and written books about her family, environmental issues and female Nobel Peace Prize winners. Daughter of King Leopold, who visited the Xingu with the Vilas Boas in 1964, she is the President of Leopold III Fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation created by her late father in 1972. A campaigner for the environment and human rights, particularly for the rights of Indigenous Peoples, she is an ambassador for WWF UK and Stop Ecocide International. Making this film gave her the opportunity to follow in his father's footsteps into the lands of the Kayapo peoples, nearly 60 years after him.
Gert-Peter Bruch is a director and keynote speaker on environmental issues. After the success of his first documentary film “Terra Libre” on the topic of the Amazon forests and the strong detailed impression it gave on the topic for professional eye, he decided to direct this film to a wider audience.. Gert-Peter Bruch has been committed to the protection of the Amazonian forest for over 30 years, and supported the first international campaign with chief Raoni. He has organized numerous field and awareness campaigns, including three international tours of chief Raoni.
Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation, Convenor of the Expert panel for the legal definition of ecocide.
Jojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017, alongside legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support making severe harm to nature an international crime.
As key spokesperson and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International, Jojo has overseen the remarkable growth of the global movement while coordinating legal developments, diplomatic traction and public narrative. She is also Chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow.
Archana Soreng
Archana Soreng is an environmental activist belonging to the indigenous Kharia Tribe from Bihabandh Village of Rajgangpur in Sundergarh, Odisha, India.[1] She has been working for awareness about climate change and documentation, preservation, and promotion of the traditional knowledge and practices of indigenous communities.
Soreng has been selected as one of the seven members of Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change established by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as a part of UN YouthStrategy
Paulo Adario
Paulo Adario ís currently the Senior Forest Strategist for Greenpeace International. Leading a field team focused on research and investigation, his work exposed the timber industry as the first in a number of drivers of destruction in the Amazon rainforest.
In 2012, he was awarded the title of "Forest Hero" by the UN for "his dedication to the protection of rainforests and the forest-dependent communities in the Brazilian Amazon".
MODERATORS
Gisèle Kayembe Fontaine
Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gisèle Kayembe Fontaine created "Gisele Events" in 2018 to make the most of her know-how.
Entrepreneur, actress, member of the Union des Artistes du Québec, trainer in event management, master of ceremonies, moderator and event host, graduate in event and show management, as well as in information and communication science, a minor in journalism and business communication. She worked as Director of Programming and Diplomatic Relations at the Vues d'Afrique International Film Festival in Montreal until September 2018, before launching herself into the job market as a 100% self-employed person.
For several years, she held important positions within the bilateral cooperation between her country of origin and Belgium, as a journalist for the United Nations, and as a coordinator for the programming of the Salon International de la Femme Noire de Montréal (SIFN), to name a few.
Lino Paoletti is a UN Youth Delegate on Biodiversity and is thus representing the French-speaking youth from Belgium on those matters. During his mandate, he made a focus on Transformative Education as a lot of other young people across the world thanks to the Global Youth Biodiversity Network.
As a living, he is building a non lucrative organization which aims at making sustainable food accessible to everybody, even in the poor neighborhoods.
INTERNATIONALE CONFERENTIE OVER ECOCIDE - ISTANBUL, TURKIJE
Donderdag 3 november 2022 - 10:00 uur
Vrijdag 4 november 2022 - 18:00 uur
Google Agenda ICS
Voor het eerst wordt in Turkije een internationale conferentie over ecocide georganiseerd. Het vindt plaats op 3 en 4 november 2022 in het Gazhane Museum in Istanbul.
Dit evenement werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met de Coalition for Climate Justice, UCTEA (de Chamber of Environmental Engineers) en End Ecocide Türkiye.
Het doel is om de erkenning van ecocide als misdaad in de Turkse nationale wetgeving te bespreken, de balans op te maken van huidige claims en activiteiten ter verdediging van de natuur, evenals de reikwijdte en doelstellingen van de strijd die al aan de gang is, om bruggen te bouwen tussen de klimaatverandering justitie en ecocidebewegingen in Turkije.
Als onderdeel van deze conferentie zal er een seminar in het Engels zijn:
Donderdag 3 november
10:15-11:15 (Istanbul tijd)
De vooruitgang van het milieurecht in de wereld en de presentatie van de juridische definitie
Jojo Mehta, executive director, Stop Ecocide
11:30-12:30 (Istanbul tijd)
Casus: de toekenning van rechtspersoonlijkheid aan de zoutwaterlagune El Mar Menor door het Spaanse parlement.
Rodrigo Lledó -FIBGAR. Advocaat en panellid voor de juridische definitie van ecocide.
Maite Mompó - Stop Ecocide in Spaans sprekende landen.
De conferentie wordt live uitgezonden op de YouTube-kanalen van de Climate Justice Coalition en de Chamber of Environmental Engineers:
13:30-14:30 (Istanbul tijd)
Praktijkvoorbeeld: Erkenning van het misdrijf ecocide in België: Hoe kan ons land geschiedenis schrijven in milieubescherming?
Patricia Willocq - StopEcocide België
De conferentie wordt live gestreamd op de YouTube-kanalen van Climate Justice Coalition en Chamber of Environmental Engineers en Chamber of Environmental Engineers.