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Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon?

Brazil’s new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he wants to make tackling environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon a priority. An NGO "Communication" to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in late 2022 says these crimes committed over a decade may amount to crimes against humanity. What chance of justice […]
By Julia Crawford
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