Coalition for International Criminal Justice calls for ICC special working group on ecocide

Summary

• On December 10 2023, the Coalition for International Criminal Justice (CICJ) issued a statement calling upon the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to establish a Special Working Group on Ecocide. 

• A Special Working Group was the mechanism by which the Crime of Aggression, originally absent from the Rome Statute, was defined before being adopted in 2010.

• The statement was issued during the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

• The Stop Ecocide Foundation co-hosted an official side event at the ASP, co-hosted by Permanent Missions of the Republic of Vanuatu and Samoa to the United Nations. 

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Read the CICJ Statement here.

Watch the full recording of Stop Ecocide Foundation’s 2023 official Assembly of States Parties side event ‘Ecocide: Voices Of The Victims’ here.