[All] International Criminal Court will now prosecute environmental crime!

[Lori Strothard]

fantastic- about time- sure hope it proves to be true and effective.

Lori
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Koswan" <susankoswan at execulink.com>
To: "'GREN'" <all at gren.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 3:04 PM
Subject: [All] International Criminal Court will now prosecute environmental 
crime!


> This is excellent news forwarded through Warren Bell from CAPE.
> Susan K
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: capenews-l [mailto:capenews-l-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of
> Warren Bell
> Sent: 20 September 2016 12:56
> To: capenews
> Subject: [capenews-l] International Criminal Court will now prosecute
> environmental crime!
>
> In a major shift of focus, the ICC will now, for the first time, consider
> cases of crime committed against the ecosystem. (Link below)
>
> This is a profound, pivotal change in direction for a court that has, up
> till now, been concerned exclusively with criminal acts perpetrated by one
> or more persons directly against other persons. Now, the intermediary 
> target
> -- the ecosystem on which we humans are utterly dependent -- is considered 
> a
> subject for protection.
>
> This is a major shift in perspective for the Court, and falls in line with
> the pronouncements of the Rio Conference many years ago, and of the 
> actions
> of several nations and provinces around the world which have granted the
> ecosystem inherent rights, or have made the right to a healthy and diverse
> ecosystem a central position in human law.
>
> We appear to be growing up as a species, one halting step at a time.
>
> It's wonderful to see. w
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/sep/15/hague-court-widens-remit-to-i
> nclude-environmental-destruction-cases
>
>
> --
> R.Warren Bell BA MDCM CCFP FCFP(LM)
> Past Founding President, CAPE (Canadian Association of Physicians for the
> Environment) Founding President, WA:TER (Wetland Alliance: The Ecological
> Response) Rural Preceptor, University of BC Salmon Arm, BC Canada
>
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