Speaking at the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, H.E. Nella Pepe Tavita-Levy, representing Samoa, reaffirmed the country’s prior submission to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to classify ecocide as an international crime. She stressed that as Pacific Islanders face sea-level rise, intensifying extreme weather and other ecological harms, ecocide law would help uphold the rights to health and to a clean, sustainable environment.