Juliette Jowit
Environmentalists’ New UN Proposal – Put ‘Ecocide’ and ‘Deni
April 12th, 2010 7:46 PM
Britain's left-of-center daily - "The Guardian" - has reported that former international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins has launched a new campaign urging the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to deem environmental damage on par with genocide and crimes against humanity in international courts. "Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute ‘…