Nature is not going to become a victim soon before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The activists who lobbied to have ecocide included in the Rome Statute will have to live without it and rely on ICC’s provisions that classify environmental crimes as war crimes and crimes against humanity. This is what explains, in this new podcast from our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts, Colombian lawyer Laura Baron-Mendoza who has contributed to the latest ICC’s policy paper on environmental crimes. This policy “doesn’t create new rights for nature, but it opens space for a richer understanding of harm across other crimes in the ICC’s jurisdiction”, she argues, one of the obstacles being the slowness and cost of the investigations at the Hague court.
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This podcast has been published as part of a partnership between Justice Info and Asymmetrical Haircuts, a podcast on international justice produced from The Hague by journalists Janet Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg, who retain full control and independence over the contents of the podcast.
