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INVITATION: Two webinars & a masterclass We would like to invite you to two webinars, co-hosted by Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVEN Trust. The purpose of this webinar series is to educate and raise aware
INVITATION:
Two webinars & a masterclass
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We would like to invite you to two webinars, co-hosted by
Stop Ecocide Canada and RAVEN Trust.
The purpose of this webinar series is to educate and raise awareness on using international law, and specifically a crime of ecocide, to reinforce Indigenous rights and environmental protection.
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Webinar one:
Crimes against Nature through the lens of Indigenous Sovereignty
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Tuesday January 19th
3 pm PT | 6 pm ET | 11pm GMT
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will focus on the legal assessment of how an international law of ecocide would uphold Indigenous governance and sovereignty.
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Coast Salish lawyer Robert Morales has appeared in all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada. He is the lead person for the current Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group before the Inter American Commission on Human Rights. |
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Lakota Member of Parliament for Winnipeg Centre (NDP) Leah Gazan has spent her life working for human rights on the local, national, and international stage. Her recent success includes organizing and traveling across the country to push Bill C-262, the Indigenous Human Rights Act. |
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Indigenous Lawyer Merle Alexander is a member and hereditary chief of Kitasoo Xai'xais First Nation. He practices Indigenous Resource Law empowering Nations through Title and Rights affirmation, sustainable economic development and environmental conservation. |
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Co-founder Jojo Mehta of the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017, alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. She is also the Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation. |
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The event will be moderated by Jeffrey Nicholls, RAVEN’s board president and a member of the Raven Clan of the Tsimshian Nation. He works as a staff lawyer with Ratcliffe (Vancouver), and he is passionate about asserting and supporting Indigenous legal orders.
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Webinar 2:
From the Grassroots to the Courts:
How criminalizing ecocide could benefit frontline defenders?
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Tuesday February 16th
4pm PT | 7pm ET | Midnight GMT
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will feature stories from the frontlines, centered on how criminalizing ecocide could benefit Indigenous communities, land defenders and water protectors.
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Sleydo (Molly Wickham) is a fierce spokesperson for Wet'suwet'en Nation members and their allies who are fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline. She is passionate about governance, the health and well-being of the yin tah (territories) and the transmission of culture, language, and traditional song and dance. |
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Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm is the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation's lead voice on Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Porcupine caribou. These are the pristine calving grounds of the largest animal land migration on earth. The survival of the Porcupine caribou is linked to the survival of his nation, its culture and identity. |
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Melissa Mollen Dupuis is a member of the Innu community of Ekuanitshit on Quebec's Côte-Nord. In 2012, she created with Widia Larivière the Quebec branch of the Idle No More movement. In 2014, became president of Wapikoni's board of administrators. In 2017, Amnesty International named her Ambassador of Conscience with five other figures of Canada's First Peoples' movement. In 2018, she became the Boreal campaigner for the David Suzuki Foundation. |
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This event will be moderated by Suzanne Dhaliwal, climate justice creative, campaigner, researcher, lecturer in environmental justice and trainer in creative strategies for decolonisation.
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You are also invited to a
Future Law Institute Masterclass
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Green Criminology:
The Case for the Crime of EcocideGovernance for more Just Futures
Sat, 23 January 2021, 16:00 – 19:00 GMT
Organised by Future Law Institute
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Led by Kate Mackintosh, Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA, one of the international criminal lawyers leading the drafting of new provisions criminalizing destruction of the world’s ecosystems at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Jojo Mehta, Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation lead participants through the legal and historical context for creating a legally enforceable crime of ecocide.
This interactive masterclass is designed for civil society representatives, climate justice advocates, policymakers and policy entrepreneurs, lawyers and professionals wishing to build capacity to lobby for environmental protection laws.
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