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Environmental justice

What is the justice response to the global environmental crisis?

The emerging concept of "environmental justice" seems to be gaining ground in the field of law. This area, which deals with prosecutions and trials related to climate justice, corporate responsibility in environmental matters, or ecocide, is covered and closely monitored by Justice Info, whether before national courts or international justice institutions.

A patrol of Senegalese soldiers in the forest of Casamance (Blaze Forest)
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Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia

Three years ago, the Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a complaint against a Swiss businessman operating in the Gambia with the complicity of its former president Yahya Jammeh. The Swiss national is accused of having committed a war crime through pillaging Senegal’s forest cover. Only a few weeks ago, the Swiss prosecutor's office sent a first […]
By Mustapha K. Darboe
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Masked protesters (Shell logo) raise their fists and hold up

The unresolved responsibility of Big Oil companies in Nigeria

An outdoor trial with lawyers, military, civilians and the public standing around

In Congo, Mihonya trial shows link between environmental and war crimes

Pygmy (Twa) child in the bush (DRC)

DRC: Indigenous Twa are freed but still landless

Corporate responsibility: Switzerland says no but the UN must say yes

World watches as Swiss vote on “responsible business”

Multinationals and human rights: do states understand the urgency of a treaty?

War, law and biodiversity: a race against time

Bled by armed groups, Congo’s Virunga Park wants justice

DRC: Outcry as indigenous people convicted for “wicked destruction of nature”

Ecocide and environmental crimes draw public attention at the ICC

Climate change: How to make corporations responsible?

Environmental destruction is (already) a war crime, but is almost impossible to commit

Indigenous people are winning court battles

Ecocide as an atrocity crime – an idea whose time is overdue

Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis

Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights

Climate law moves from human to nature-centred rights

International criminal justice fails to meet the challenge of environmental crimes