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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe)
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UCLA's new hub for research, advocacy and experiential education at the center of the international human rights and justice arenas in Europe
"...𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴."

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#ecocide #humanrights #environmentaljustice
Conference Highlights: Baroness Rosie Boycott — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Baroness Rosie Boycott opened the conference with a thoughtful keynote address.  She reflected on themes that would reappear throughout the day, beginning with the contrast between her own child...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Why is the environmental cost of war not on the agenda at COP 30 and could an international crime of ecocide change accountability?

Our ED Kate Mackintosh answers these questions on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story with Adrian Finighan.

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#ecocide #war #COP30 #conflict
Is war one of the biggest threats to the world’s climate? | Inside Story
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October.

Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to come.

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How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it
International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed conflicts.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
2 days to go!
You can still join us online for the International Conference on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice this Friday.
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Meet the Speakers: Catherine Savard — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Catherine Savard is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, where her thesis focuses on ecocide in international law. She holds two master’s degrees, respectively from the University of ...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#Ecocide disproportionately affects Small Island Developing States( #SIDS). Highlighting the links between environmental destruction, human rights violations and ongoing colonial practices. Conference this Friday!

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Meet the Speakers: Krishnee Adnarian Appadoo — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
The paper Exploring Ecocide and Human Rights in Small Island Developing States by Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo and Jeevesh Augnoo examines how ecocide disproportionately affects Small Island Develo...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our ED Kate Mackintosh joined the Croatian Bar Association to discuss ecocide law: its inclusion as the fifth international crime under the Rome Statute to the EU’s new Environmental Crime Directive and its implementation by 2026.

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Our ED addresses the Croatian Bar Association on Ecocide and International Law — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Our ED Kate Mackintosh had the honor of addressing the Croatian Bar Association (CBA) this week on the topic “Criminalizing the Mass Destruction of Nature: Ecocide in National and International L...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Jojo Mehta, CEO and co-founder of Stop ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social, will join us during the evening event of the conference to update us on the #ecocidelaw movement!

🎡 Join us in London or online!

📆 31 October 2025

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Meet the Speakers: Jojo Mehta — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
Jojo founded Stop Ecocide International in 2017 together with the late barrister and legal pioneer Polly Higgins , to advance the recognition of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Cour...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This opinion piece published in @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social by our ED, @katemackintosh.bsky.social, explains exactly what #ecocide is, why it should be recognised as an #internationalcrime and how it is intrinsically related to #humanrights!

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Ecocide is the Missing Crime - Icarus Complex
Criminalising ecocide is about recognising that when ecosystems collapse, so too do the conditions for human dignity.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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
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 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
LISTEN NOW!

In this conversation with Initiatives pour le Désarmement
Nucléaire (IDN) France, our ED Kate Mackintosh explains what the ICJ' advisory opinion says, why it’s historic, and how it can be used, from courtrooms to climate negotiations.

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L’ENTRETIEN IDN - Kate Mackintosh
YouTube video by Initiatives pour le Désarmement Nucléaire (IDN)
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October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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!
www.promiseeurope.law.ucla.edu/news/meet-the-speakers-samia-dumbuya #climateactionUK
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
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
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
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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September 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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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#colonialism #humanrights #environmentaljustice
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
🌍 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
#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
“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
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
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
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
"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 !

#ICJAO
September 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM