Changes from R5 to R5new
Original version: | R5 |
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Status: | Modified |
Submitted: | 04/28/2022, 16:18 |
New version: | R5new |
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Status: | Submitted |
Submitted: | 07/11/2022, 17:05 |
Title
Motion text
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its connection to social, gender, and racial injustice across all societies. Moreover, in October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) recognised for the first time that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right, adding to the decades-long effort in international law to make the right to a healthy environment a human right – including the conclusion of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in 2019 that “human rights norms apply to the full spectrum of environmental issues”; and the determination of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which decides on violations of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, in 2020 that access to a clean and healthy environment falls under the right to life.
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In this context, we consider that Ecocide, definedecocide, following the definition of Polly Higgins as “widespread and/or long-term mass“1. Acts or omissions committed in times of peace or conflict by any senior person within the course of State, corporate or any other entity’s activity which cause, contribute to, or may be expected to cause or contribute to serious ecological, climate or cultural loss or damage andto or destruction of ecosystems”ecosystem(s) of a given territory(ies), such that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants has been or will be severely diminished. 2. To establish seriousness, impact(s) must be widespread, long-term or severe.”, should be included in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)(hereinafter simply Rome Statute). The sanctions imposed so far have been insufficient, and in most cases, the big corporations already include
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Denounces the exploitation or destruction of the environment performed by public and private institutions, and state and private actors, especially those of the Global North in the Global South through practices of
neocolonialism(neo)colonialism andimperialism(neo)imperialism, and urges the corresponding institutions and actors to initiate processes for historical compensation.
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Calls on all European states that
ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to propose the correspondent amendments to include Ecocide in its list of crimes and, once changes are made, to ratify the new text.have ratified the Rome Statute to propose and push for the adoption and ratification of the correspondent amendment to add the crime of ecocide in its list of crimes based on the draft law proposed by Polly Higgins, wherein the juridisction of the ICC for ecocide is explicitly expanded to include corporations.