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Wish20: End Ecocide by 2020 I am a lawyer for the Earth: Ecocide is a law that puts people and planet first.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Wish20

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Wish20 is a Global Citizens Initiative to build support for a law of Ecocide.  Wish 20 : My wish is to end Ecocide by 2020. This can be...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Save our Forests

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"When the governments failed to reach agreement, I remained silent; I was not a climate expert. When they failed to govern our bank...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Polly Higgins on criminalising Ecocide

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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Prosecuting the whistleblowers: but how long until the true destroyers are put in the dock?

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Sophie Scholl, a Munich University student, was executed for whistleblowing the truth about the activities of the Nazi authorities; today 20...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

COP 16: Cancun - Corporate and Complicit.

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Colonialism by the Sea It was a surreal setting for the latest episode of the world’s climate negotiations: mega-all-inclusive exclusive h...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Eradicating Ecocide

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"Eradicating Ecocide highlights the need for enforceable, legally binding mechanisms in national and international law to hold to acco...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Climate 9 say real crime is Ecocide

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  Climate 9 outside Aberdeen Crown Court June 14, 2010 on trial for vandalism, say the real crime is ecocide, not peaceful campaigning agai...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Launch of thisisecocide.com

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Mass destruction of ecosystems is a crime on a par with genocide, which is why I am calling on the UN with another proposal.  This time it i...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Ecocide - help make this word a meme

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Raphael Lemkin was the guy who came up with the word ‘genocide’ to describe the horrors of the haulocaust in World War 2. 2010 is the Int...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

THE CANADIAN TAR SANDS OIL-YMPICS - action against ecocide

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The Race To The Tar Sands Has Begun! Saturday February 13th, was the opening day of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Meanwhi...
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Peoples Climate Conference, Klimaforum: on stage with George Monbiot

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Monday, December 21, 2009

The People of the Planet v's the Politicians: How to turn a bad COP into a good COP

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So the climate negotiations are over. The end result was a 3 page document, now named the Copenhagen Accord (not a Treaty because it is non-...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Become a Trustee of Planet Earth

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Last year I addressed the Untied Nations on the need for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights. One year on and Bolivia is now going t...

COP 15 a cop-out?

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I am currently in Copenhagen for the International Climate negotiations, and everything hangs on a balance today, the last day. Here is som...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Planetary Slavery alive and well in Copenhagen

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3 days left of this year's COP 15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen, and negotiations are at stalemate. The voice of the people is loud...

Hopenhagen or Nopenhagen?

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All, As I write this, we are down to three days here at the Copenhagen climate talks. And I am afraid to say that there is almost no reason ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Bolivia presents Bolivia presents Resolution “Harmony with Mother Earth” at the UN

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The winds of change, they are a blowing. Values are suddenly the currency of the day. Time magazine believes we have the beginnings of a R...
Monday, November 09, 2009

Mother Earth rights and rights of all beings in Copenhagen Treaty

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One year on from presenting planetary rights to the United Nations, Mother Earth rights and rights of all beings have been included in the f...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The People's Declaration

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What is The Declaration of All Beings? It is a self and community governance document to help shape our lives. It sets out the principle...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Desertec Industrial Initiative

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Monday found me in Munich with my fellow Board Members of the DESERTEC Foundation for the press conference of the ambitious launch of the DE...
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Polly Higgins
London, United Kingdom
I am a lawyer with one wish: to end all ecocides by 2020. I have proposed that a law of Ecocide be added as the 5th Crime Against Peace. When we do that we will end the era of Ecocide.
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