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The full programme of our upcoming International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice is now online.

Join us in London or register for the livestream.
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Meet the Speakers: Matthew Gillet — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
In his article “ Human, all too Human”: The Anthropocentricization of Ecocide , Matthew Gillet warns that defining ecocide around human interests risks undermining the ecocentric rationale for add...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Samia Dumbuya is a climate educator, facilitator, and founder of The People’s Ark, empowering marginalised communities in the UK to become active climate changemakers. Join Samia on the 31st of October in London!
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Meet the Speakers: Samia Dumbuya — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Samia Dumbuya is a climate educator, facilitator, and founder of The People’s Ark , empowering marginalised communities in the UK to become active climate changemakers. For over a decade, they’ve le...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Kaeden will closing our 31 October conference - tune in or join us in London!
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We are delighted that Kaeden Watts will dial in during the evening event of the 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 to share with us the current events surrounding Indigenous Health and Environmental Justice in New Zealand.
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Meet the Speakers: Kaeden Watts — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Kaeden Watts is an Indigenous rights advocate and policy expert from Aotearoa New Zealand tribes of Tūhoe, Ngāti Maniapoto, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa. His areas of focus include integrating Indigenous kno...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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MSP Monica Lennon has been leading the way with the (Scotland) Ecocide (Prevention) Bill, a bold step to make severe environmental harm a crime.

She joins our Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice to discuss climate advocacy in the UK with Samia Dumbuya.

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Meet the Speakers: Monica Lennon — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Monica Lennon is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland, first elected in 2016. We invited Monica to speak at the upcoming International Conference...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Tune in to hear Jojo on Friday October 31!
October 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Tune in on October 31!
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Latest piece on IcarusComplex by @katemackintosh.bsky.social | 'Ecocide is a missing crime'

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#Ecocide #HumanRights #Culture #Inequality #EnvironmentalJustice
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Humans Matter Too:
“Ecocentric” Does not Mean “Misanthropic”
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Meet the Speakers: Darryl Robinson — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Humans Matter Too: “Ecocentric” Does not Mean “Misanthropic” Meet Darryl Robinson, Professor at Queen’s University, Faculty of Law, member of Ecocide Law Advisory and part of the expert panel on the ...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🌍 Can the ICJ Climate Ruling save the planet?
Join L’entretien IDN with Kate Mackintosh & Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. TODAY!!! Sept 24, 7 PM CET.
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Can the ICJ’s Climate Ruling Save the Planet? — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
📅 Join us on Wednesday, September 24, at 7 PM for a new IDN Interview ! IDN France - Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament will welcome Kate Mackintosh , Executive Director and Prof...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Dr. Olivia Kokushubila Lwabukuna will chair the opening panel at the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice: 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺.
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Meet the Speakers: Dr Olivia Lwabukuna — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Dr. Lwabukuna is a distinguished Tanzanian legal scholar and lawyer with two decades of experience spanning academia, advocacy, and policy research across Africa and the UK. Through her work, she ac...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Jonathan Liljeblad's analysis considers Myanmar's current conflict as a potential case for future ecocide prosecution. ecocide.www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/meet-the-speakers-jonathan-liljeblad
Join us at the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights & Environmental Justice -31 October
Meet the Speakers: Jonathan Liljeblad — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Jonathan Liljeblad was born in Myanmar as a member of the Pa’Oh Indiginous peoples and grew up in Sweden and the United States. His analysis Intersections of Ecocide, Indigenous Struggle, & Pro-D...
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September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Join us on October 31!
uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · Sep 30
Full Programme is now online!

The conference brings together an exceptional group of speakers from across the globe to discuss critical questions at the intersection of law, human rights, and the environment

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October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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We are honoured to welcome Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka, High Commissioner of the Republic of Zambia to the United Kingdom, who will be addressing the audience during the evening programme of the conference.
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Meet the Speakers: Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
We are honoured to welcome Her Excellency Macenje Mazoka, the High Commissioner of the Republic of Zambia to the United Kingdom. With over three decades in broadcasting, governance, and diplomacy, sh...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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UCLA Law in The Hague students' first day in Geneva started with watching the UN Human Rights Council consider reports on unilateral sanctions, mercenaries and the right to water and ended with traditional Swiss cheese fondue!
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UCLA Law in The Hague Students visit Geneva — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
The UCLA Law in The Hague students are spending this week in Geneva! On Day 1, the students were able to watch the UN Human Rights Council consider reports on unilateral sanctions, mercenaries and th...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯?”

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Meet the Speakers: Lovleen Bhullar and Co-Author Gita Parihar — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Dr Lovleen Bhullar is Assistant Professor in Environmental Law at the University of Cambridge, as a speaker at our upcoming conference in London on 31 October. Dr Bullar, together with Gita Parih...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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#UCLA Law in The Hague students finished their trip to Geneva with #UN legal advisor Sun Kim and Aurélie Lamazière of Save the Children International.
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Final Day in Geneva for UCLA Law in The Hague Students — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
On the last day of their visit to Geneva, the UCLA Law in The Hague students were able to sit in as states debated the reports of the working groups on arbitrary detention and enforced disappearanc...
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September 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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UCLA Law in The Hague students were delighted to be part of the celebration of 25 years of UC and Utrecht University exchange in the Netherlands and share their experience of their externship.
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UCLA Law in The Hagues Students present at UC Alumni reception! — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
We were delighted to join the community reception and forum for University of California alumni, students, and friends in the Netherlands at the 25th anniversary celebration of the study abroad exch...
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September 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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"Can the ICJ's new climate ruling save the planet?"

📅 Join our ED Kate Mackintosh and Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Associate Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, on Wednesday, September 24, at 7 PM for a new IDN Interview !

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September 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Daniel Adjin Odonkor will present an innovative solution through a "hybrid" definition of ecocide, that balances environmental protection with human rights at our upcoming international conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice.
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Meet the Speakers: Daniel Adjin Odonkor — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Daniel Adjin Odonkor is a lawyer and researcher with the Centre of Criminology at the University of Cape Town, where his work explores the intersection of criminal law, human rights, and social justic...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Come build The Promise Institute!
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Machiko Kanetake from the TMC Asser Institute interviews legal experts Nataša Nedeski, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Yusra Suedi and our ED Kate Mackintosh. Together they break down the ICJ’s historic climate opinion.

#ICJ #advisoryopinion #climatechange #internationallaw
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The #ICJ called climate change “an existential problem of planetary proportions.” But what does its new Advisory Opinion mean for climate law and policy? Our experts break it down in this interview led by Machiko Kanetake and Eylül Kabakcı.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Still some extra time to catch up on your reading before the semester starts? Here are two inspiring books for late summer!
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Two Inspiring Books for Late Summer — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Nature Matters , edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf, gathers African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora voices to reimagine environmentalism and ecopoetics. Woolf, our 2020 Poet in Residence at...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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At this one-day conference, we will bring together international perspectives on ecocide from Ghana and Africa, Brazil, Colombia and Latin America, Jamaica, and Small Island Developing States.

Discussion topics: anthropocentrism, corporate responsibility, sentencing, and mens rea.
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International Conference, Ecocide, Human Rights & Environmental Justice. — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
This one-day conference will bring together international perspectives on ecocide from Ghana and Africa, Brazil, Colombia and Latin America, Jamaica, and Small Island Developing States. Discussions ...
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August 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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⚖️🌍 Richard Steinberg, Professor of International Criminal Law at UCLA introduces the ICC Forum.

➡️ Make sure to visit the ICC Forum if you are interested in international criminal justice and explore hundreds of expert opinions on relevant ICC topics of today!

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⚖️🌍 What challenges face the International Criminal Court today?
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August 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Our international one-day conference will bring together scholars, activists, diplomats and lawmakers from across the globe for an interdisciplinary conversation on international law and ecological survival.

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International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice 31 October 2025   — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice   📆 31 October 2025   📍 Senate House, London   Mark your calendars for a landmark gathering at the int...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM