Dear friends!
Our End Ecocide campaign goes on. We improved our website in order to allow everyone
(and we mean everyone on this planet, not only EU citizens) to sign BOTH petitions at
once for which we are currently pushing for:
- Our petition to ask for the recognition of the Ecocide crime through a
European directive
- The Charter of Brussels petition asking for the creation of a European and
an International Criminal Court of the Environment and Health
Here is the link for both petitions, to share it with your friends: https://www.endecocide.org/votes/vote.php
Ecocides happening RIGHT NOW:
Several ecocides are happening right now. The Fukushima disaster celebrates its
3 years anniversary. The situation is far from being resolved and is getting worse and
worse every day. Still nobody has been judged for the tragedy.
Uranium mining projects are going to impact the Great Canadian North and
Inuit lifestyle.
In Greece, gold mining projects are planned in the North and threaten to
pollute the region with harmful chemical products like lead, cadmium, arsenic and
mercury.
In Peru, the construction of several new mega dams on several lakes has been
announced recently, one of them is planned on the Marañon, an affluent of the Amazon.
In Cameroun, huge industrial oil palm plantations threaten populations, by the
construction of big dams and by the pollution caused by aluminium mines.
In Ethiopia, the biggest dam of Africa is emerging from the soil and will lead
to reduce the Nile flow, opening the way to strong geopolitics tensions.
In Congo, another huge dam is under construction.
Finally Europe is about to renew the authorisation for GMO corn MON180 culture.
Please check our website: https://www.endecocide.org/examples
for a list of additional cases and follow our news on our International Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/EndEcocideInEurope
(We also have country specific facebook pages linked from there).
The need to discipline multinational companies is urgent in order to stop
unrestrained exploitation of natural resources and destruction of ecosystems in the
name of profit and materialistic development.
Trade treaties
What one needs to understand is that the same multinational companies that
destroy our ecosystems are currently looking to lift all legal restrictions for their
activities. The European commission and the United States of America are currently
working on a free trade agreement called TAFTA / TTIP (Transatlantic Free Trade
Agreement).
This project, negotiated with and for multinationals, is a great threat for our
social, ecological and democratic rights because it would give big private financial
groups extravagant rights to exploit people and nature.
A mechanism called "Investors/State" planned in the negotiation would allow
transnational companies to press charges against a state or a regional government if
they submitted a law or a regulation, which will hinder their business and investment.
In France, several regional governments (Ile de France and PACA region, Besançon
and Niort cities) which have understood the threats are declaring themselves « OUT
TAFTA » and all over Europe resistance is growing. To learn more about this topic,
please check this page: http://www.citizen.org/tafta
Our strategy
Facing these manoeuvres, us, citizens, need to propose an ambitious international
law reform and fight FOR a law against crimes against nature to prevent any such
treaties to become reality now and in the future.
Already certain progresses have been carried by European Members of Parliament
who support us as Sandrine Bélier. The European parliament has definitely validated a
regulation in order to ratify and implement Nagoya’s protocol. This text aims to
assure an equitable share of the advantages coming from genetic resources’ use. It
constitutes the main European tool to combat bio piracy. It will allow European Union
to be involved in the next conference of the Parties (MOP1) of the convention on
Biological Biodiversity in October 2014.
To go further, we decided to work with big Environmental and Human Rights NGOs in
order to propose to the UN the creation of an international criminal court for
Environment and Health. To succeed, we need courage and we need your support!
A Facebook event has been created to spread the information about the creation
of an international criminal court for environment and health and to collect a maximum
of signatures: https://www.facebook.com/events/242245075947084/
We can do it! You have a vital role in this process! Share our two petitions,
our website and invite everyone you know to join us and tell them to do the same!
We want your help! Join our volunteer team! Email lucia@endecocide.eu
Let’s
End Ecocide together!! Every hand helps!