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Lisa Oldring

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PhD researcher uva.nl/law, human rights & ecocide crime. Senior Fellow ‪@uclapromiseeurope. Mountain culture enthusiast. Elbows up! 🇨🇦

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Steven Guilbeault @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
LIVE: Leaders from Mikisew Cree First Nation and the Assembly of First Nations are in Ottawa to call on the federal government to create a plan to manage the toxic tarsands waste to help protect the health and safety of surrounding communities.
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Indigenous leaders call on Ottawa to create plan to manage tarsands waste | APTN News
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Lisa Oldring @lisaoldring.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Grateful for the invitation and looking forward to the discussions next week!
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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Chief Allan Adam of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation gets it exactly right: "This province works backwards." Will the Alberta government ever get serious about the massive harms of oil sands on communities, nature and the climate? @cape-acme.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-ta...
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Oil Sands Tailings Plan Sparks Indigenous Opposition, Calls for Federal Oversight
As the Alberta government advances a proposal to treat toxic oilsands tailings stored in massive ponds and eventually release the treated water into the Athabasca River, nearby Indigenous nations are ...
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Ezequiel Jimenez @ezejim.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Call a spade a spade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHl...
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Gaza siege a textbook case of genocide under international law, says legal expert
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
While everyone is distracted by strikes on #Iran, the conflict, #genocide & crisis in #Sudan is escalating, w/'increased use of heavy weaponry in populated areas and a sharp rise in sexual and gender-based violence... hospitals & medical facilities under siege.' #IHL www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Sudan war intensifying with devastating consequences for civilians, UN Fact-Finding Mission says
GENEVA – The civil war in Sudan is intensifying with devastating consequences for countless civilians caught in the conflict, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan warned...
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
In our Open Letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP, 412 legal, human rights, diplomatic, international affairs, social justice, civil society, faith & labour leaders & experts make it clear: Canada must act to end genocide in #Gaza. 🧵1/10
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Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New commentary from my @crisisgroup.org colleagues. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
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The Gaza Starvation Experiment | International Crisis Group
Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine alerts appeared, tightening as attention faded...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/06/2025
This is what we call a negative feedback loop in scientific circles!
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Horrifying to read this story - the impact of climate change is here and now in Canada. 30,000 people having to leave their homes, a massive impact on remote Indigenous communities, and smoke causing dangerous air quality levels in North America. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Some wildfire evacuees are leaving their First Nation for first time ever, chief says
About 30,000 people have now been told to leave their homes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
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Lisa Oldring @lisaoldring.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.ohchr.org/en/statement...
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HC Türk: Climate emergency is a clarion call for a new politics
Distinguished guests, faculty and students, friends,It’s an honour to participate in this lecture series, and a pleasure to be with you today.The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are a beacon of learni...
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Amanda Ghahremani @amandaghahremani.com · 12/05/2025
It just keeps getting worse. With recent reports of Trump planning to send immigrants (including possibly asylum-seekers & refugees) to #Libya & #Rwanda, it’s all the more urgent for #Canada to withdraw from the #SafeThirdCountry Agreement. For context, read my piece in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 26/05/2025
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Olmert … saying what is true and must end … war crimes and crimes against humanity. www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Such an important legal challenge. The obvious course of action would be to scrap the #STCA. At a minimum we need transparency as to how the federal government can possibly consider DT's USA to be a safe country for refugees.
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Groups mount legal challenge against Ottawa over refugee treaty with U.S.
The Safe Third Country Agreement is premised on both countries being safe for refugees, but groups say Canada’s oversight of the deal is ‘fundamentally flawed’
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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One year has already passed. It is time to take action now! The ECD sets minimum standards, but we have the opportunity to go further and implement not just stricter, but better measures, for the sake of people, planet, and future generations. bit.ly/2pagerECO #environment #ECD #EU #ecocidelaw
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European Crime Directive - Factsheet Ecocide — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
A Practical Guide for Transposing the ECD’s Qualified Offence EU Directive 2024/1203 on the protection of the environment through criminal law (ECD) came into force on 20 May 2024. It requires all E...
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Professor Leila Sadat @leilasadat1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Really proud to stand with WashULaw colleagues in defense of the rule of law during a time of profound crisis. sites.google.com/view/washula...
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The people of DR Congo deserve attention and protection. "Most estimates state that over 6m have died, making it the deadliest conflict since WWII. But many of us who live in Congo believe that the real number is much higher. And the world remains largely silent." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/o...
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Opinion | Congo Is Bleeding. Where Is the Outrage?
This is not the first time the world has overlooked violence in the country.
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American Society of International Law @asilorg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
ASIL.org/ASILStatement
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katemackintosh.bsky.social @katemackintosh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ecocide Law Advisory is live! Check it out and read the manual here ecocidelawadvisory.com
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Ecocide Law Advisory — UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe
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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Legal tools for a livable planet: Read all about the launch of Ecocide Law Advisory and the new Manual on the National Criminalisation of Ecocide. 🌍📘 bit.ly/ecocidelaw
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Brandi Morin in #Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon. The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, feat stunning photos by Ian Wilms. ricochet.media/indigenous/b... #Indigenous #cdnpoli
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Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon
Deep in the Ecuador Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.
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UCLA Law The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe) @uclapromiseeurope.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you to UN OHCHR for hosting yesterday's roundtable on ecocide and human rights. Lisa Oldring and Kate Mackintosh shared updates on efforts to amend the Rome Statute to include ecocide. Special thanks to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo for driving this conversation forward. 📸dominikgehl.com #ecocide
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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
www.justsecurity.org/106856/inter... An extraordinary letter — protection of the ICC is vital.
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We Need the International Legal Order: A Call to Protect the International Criminal Court
All current and former Presidents of the International Criminal Court Assembly of State Parties write about the ICC's importance at this moment in time.
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Robb Barnes 🇨🇦 @robb-barnes.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Missing data, wrong numbers and erroneous claims haunt the Alberta Energy Regulator, which is supposed to hold industry to account. If the AER is asleep at the wheel, what are the implications for the health of people across Alberta? @cape-acme.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/two-spills-p...
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Two Spills Per Week: Alberta Regulator Lacks Evidence for Oil Sands Cleanup Claims, Study Concludes
A new analysis of a decade's worth of data kept by Alberta’s oil and gas regulator suggests the agency has made unsubstantiated claims about the success of oilsands tailings spills cleanup.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Doctors Without Borders: What our medical teams have witnessed is "consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...
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Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today on APTN National News: Another First Nations person has died following an interaction with law enforcement in Canada — the 15th Indigenous person to die during or shortly after an encounter with police since August. youtube.com/live/2bWcN28...
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Many were looking to access my recent Toronto Star piece - I've posted it here: www.climateandnature.com/media/opinio...
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Opinion | As environment minister, I believed the oil sands sector would help us save the planet. I was wrong. — Climate and Nature Solutions
In May 2016, I was leading intense negotiations between the federal government and the provinces and territories to secure Canada’s first national climate plan .
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Isabella Kaminski @isabellakaminski.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I wrote about the UK's submission to the International Court of Justice for The ENDS Report, poking holes in its attempt to distance itself from the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia and looking at how it puts the country's climate leadership reputation #climateICJAO www.endsreport.com/article/1899...
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UK climate leadership reputation in question following ICJ submission
Legal experts and diplomats have questioned the UK’s avowed attempt to regain its position as a climate leader after the government set out its position on state responsibilities at the world’s top co...
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Lisa Oldring @lisaoldring.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Your posts (including on octopuses) are so appreciated!
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Isabella Kaminski @isabellakaminski.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says recognising #ecocide as an international crime would be a “milestone” and a "pivotal" way of guaranteeing human rights INCLUDING right to a healthy, clean & sustainable environment recognised by UN in 2022 digitallibrary.un.org/record/39825...
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The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment :
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Lisa Oldring @lisaoldring.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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A Fifth Crime of Ecocide: Opening Considerations — Stop Ecocide International
OFFICIAL SIDE EVENT, 23rd Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Fifth Crime of Ecocide: Opening Considerations In-person & li...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 20/11/2024
At least 350 transgender and gender-diverse people have been murdered over the past year, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project. This Trans Day of Remembrance should serve as a rallying cry for vigilance, protection, and action.
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Trans Day of Remembrance Marked with Grim Murder Data
At least 350 transgender and gender-diverse people have been murdered over the past year, according to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project, a global initiative of Transgender Europe (TGEU).
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Simon Bagshaw @simonbagshaw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Very grateful to the Beyond Compliance Consortium and the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare for this opportunity to contribute a piece on the "full protection of civilians" to the Beyond Compliance Symposium: lieber.westpoint.edu/towards-full...
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Beyond Compliance Symposium – Towards the Full Protection of Civilians - Lieber Institute West Point
Working towards the full protection of civilians would allow to overcome the narrow focus on IHL compliance.
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