{"id":281,"date":"2011-12-13T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnhre.org.1097soon2b.co.uk\/?p=281"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:48:57","slug":"gnhre-member-barrister-polly-higginss-ecocide-concept-explored-in-mock-ecocide-trial-at-the-uk-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"GNHRE member, Barrister Polly Higgins&#8217;s &#8216;ecocide&#8217; concept explored in &#8216;mock&#8217; ecocide trial at the UK Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/gnhre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ecocide-trial-court-room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ecocide-trial-court-room\" src=\"http:\/\/gnhre.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ecocide-trial-court-room-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Polly Higgins, famous Barrister and tireless campaigner for nature&#8217;s rights, has proposed that ecocide (the environmental equivalent of genocide) should be designated as the 5th International Crime against Peace.\u00a0 The Hamilton Group recently organised a mock trial in the UK Supreme Court, the outcome of which was a great endorsement of her concept and its potential for further developing criminal accountability for environmental harms.<\/p>\n<p>A link to the Guardian newspaper and its coverage of the trial can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/video\/2011\/oct\/05\/mock-ecocide-trial-video\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Higgins, famous Barrister and tireless campaigner for nature&#8217;s rights, has proposed that ecocide (the environmental equivalent of genocide) should be designated as the 5th International Crime against Peace.\u00a0 The Hamilton Group recently organised a mock trial in the UK Supreme Court, the outcome of which was a great endorsement of her concept and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-posts","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4926,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/4926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnhre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}