How Can We Really Eradicate Ecocide? Polly Higgins’ New Book Shows How International Law Will Help

Eleven years before the term genocide originated in 1944, the legal scholar Raphael Lemkin had attempted to make illegal the sort of mass killing perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire upon Armenians in the First World War. World War Two cemented the drive to criminalize genocide, even if it wouldn’t be until 1951 that United Nations member states would incorporate the criminality of deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethic, racial, religious or national group. Big shifts in international law can happen. What about the deliberate and systematic destruction of a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Can We Really Eradicate Ecocide? Polly Higgins’ New Book Shows How International Law Will Help

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