A panel of legal experts from various counties created a legal definition for ecocide, which could hopefully be adopted as the fifth form of crime in the Rome Statute.

Historic Momentum of the Ecocide Initiative

Sunday, July 4, 2021

A panel of legal experts from various counties creates a legal definition for ecocide, which hopefully would be adopted as the fifth form of crime in the Rome Statute. It presents a momentum to push for similar awareness in Indonesia.

A mother and her child, victims of the Lapindo mudflow, point to the center of the eruption from point 25 of the Lapindo mudflow embankment in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, May 2018. Environmental organization Walhi held an action to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Sidoarjo mudflow tragedy. Antara/Zabur Karuru . tempo : 171348329186.

HARWATI, 45 years old, was displaced from her home in Siring village, Porong Regency, Sidoarjo, East Java, by the Lapindo mudflow disaster. When mud erupted from the ground drilled by Lapindo Brantas in May 2006, her village, situated around 500 meters away from the gas exploration activities, became first to be affected, forcing her to take refuge. In 2015, she decided to move to Candipari village, some five kilometers away from where she used t

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