Chaque personne sur Terre vit aujourd’hui sur une scène de crime. Ce crime se déroule depuis des décennies. Nous en voyons les effets dans la chaleur et les incendies de forêt qui se déroulent cet été dans l’Ouest américain, dans les méga-tempêtes qui ont été si nombreuses en 2020 que
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Devenir Gardiens de la Nature – Pour la défense du vivant et des générations futures, de Marine Calmet – Tana éditions, 24 mars 2021 – 256 pages Piller, polluer, déforester… L’humain est devenu la plus grande menace pour la nature. Lancé dans une course à l’accaparement des richesses naturelles, le
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La 3ème Conférence-Action du Défi Biodiversité se tiendra le mardi 9 février, de 12h à 13h, sur le thème « Quel droit pour le vivant ? », 100 % en ligne. Quel droit pour le vivant ? Quelles frontières avec le droit d’entreprendre ? Ces questions sont au cœur de l’actualité, notamment
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As the 150 citizens of the Citizens' Climate Convention meet this weekend to validate their concrete proposals to be submitted to the government, measures have already been made public on Thursday 18 June. Among them, the amendment of Article 1 of the Constitution to make France
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At the bottom of the water, in a cloud of grey particles, an anchor is ploughing dozens of metres of Posidonia, a hundred thousand year old marine plant, a refuge for dozens of aquatic species. In about thirty seconds, hundreds of years of underwater life go up in smoke. The culprit for this
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Scottish activist Polly Higgins has been advocating for a decade for the recognition of the crime of ecocide. She died brutally on 21 April at the age of 50. Lawyer Maud Sarliève recalls, for Justiceinfo.net, the long struggle in which her British colleague took part and what she leaves as a legacy.
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As a lawyer and activist, Valérie Cabanes has encountered situations on every continent where the fundamental rights of peoples are affected by damage to their natural environment. She describes some of these experiences, analyzes recent environmental pressures on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and proposes an architecture for the future.
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A court of appeal in The Hague confirmed on 9 October last year the injunction for the Dutch state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. In the name of the right to life and the right to have an
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A symbolic tribunal against Monsanto was held in The Hague (Netherlands) from 14 to 16 October 2016. Objectives: to address the legal responsibility of companies and states for global environmental degradation in the light of existing international law; and to convince of the need to introduce
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From 14 to 16 October 2016, the Monsanto Tribunal, an international civil society mobilization of historic proportions, will expose Monsanto's toxic products and the crimes attributed to this company against human health and the environment. Five eminent experts will be called upon to judge the multinational company.
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