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The event will bring together the diplomatic, environmental, and international legal communities in Geneva to discuss how the prosecution of environmental crime fits within the evolving peace and secu...

Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice. Volume 30, Issue 6 of The International Journal of Human Rights

“Now more than ever, we need the ability to understand other people's realities, the systems that shape them, and the challenges they face. Meaningful solutions require listening, curiosity, and a wil...

The manual lays out the legal architecture for prosecuting environmental destruction as an international crime, and shows how to apply this in practice.  It offers a step-by-step guide to what c...

“Pro bono work has been the throughline that connects my values to my legal training.  When I met Pedro [ Mr. Pedro Arrojo-Agudo , the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drin...

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“As a member of the Promise Institute's Student Advisory Board, I contributed to a pro bono research project on the role of water in armed conflict, conducted in partnership with the UN Special rappor...

Last week, our affiliated faculty Prof. Alex Wang visited us for three events hosted by the Leiden Asia Centre, the University of Amsterdam's interdisciplinary institute SEVEN, and cultural debate cen...

The EU Environmental Crime Directive deadline is here! Are we ready?  As of the 21 st of May 2026, EU member states must have the Environmental Crime Directive transposed into national law, wit...

An interview with professor Alex Wang about the world’s newest environmental superhero: China.

The third in the series of new articles from our upcoming Special Issue of the International Journal for Human Rights on Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice, is certainly not the leas...

Book discussion of ‘Chinese Global Environmentalism’ by Alex Wang: a look into China’s rise to the stage of climate action. Into the mind of the Green Dragon.

This article examines how Jamaica, as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), faces disproportionate environmental harm from resource extraction by multinational corporations, compounded by climate-re...

In Suriname’s offshore oil ambitions: navigating human rights, climate change commitments and the risk of ecocide , Daphina Misiedjan, Ph.D. examines how Suriname stands at a critical crossroads. W...

Karen McCarthy Woolf’s new poetry collection Unsafe , published in February 2026, by Bloomsbury, brings together work developed during her residency at The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA ...

It was a full house for The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA’s 2nd Annual  Judging International Justice Lecture  featuring the Honorable Dire Tladi, Judge at the International Cou...

Congratulations to our Pro Bono student, Maria Paula Herrera Duque, who has been named as this year's LLM recipient of the U Serve LA Award at UCLA School of Law! Among her many public interest and p...

Our legal associate Amanda Danson Brown’s article “Critical Race Theory and the Law of the Sea: Bringing CRT ‘Offshore’” has been published in the peer-reviewed SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research.&...

From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons on Bikini and Enewetak Atolls in the Marshall Islands. These tests resulted in forced displacement, profound cultural loss linked to t...

We congratulate Monica Lennon , the Scottish Parliament , and the people of Scotland on the vote to advance the Ecocide (Scotland) Bill. This is a significant step towards recognising severe envir...

Join us for the 2nd Annual Judging International Justice Lecture featuring Judge Dire Tladi. The South African Judge of the ICJ will join in conversation with Faculty Director of The Promise Institut...

We are pleased to share a newly published paper by Kal Raustiala, The Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law, 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥: 𝘚𝘦𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳...

Nuremberg Virtual Panel Discussion Join us on January 27th at 12pm PT for a conversation with director/writer/producer James Vanderbilt and veterans Colonel Arnold Strong and Captain Karen Kraft. Thi...

The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA is pleased to present the 2025 Annual Report reflecting our work in both Los Angeles and Europe. We remain committed to uniting people around our sh...

The semester has officially come to an end for our UCLA Law in The Hague students. It has been a full and inspiring period: internships at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Kosovo Specia...

At the Assembly of States Parties (ASP24) , experts from Ukraine and international legal organisations outlined how environmental harm is being investigated and framed in active conflict, offering ins...

The OTP Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage through the Rome Statute has been launched this Thursday at the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.  ...

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The criminalisation of ecocide is coming, both domestically and internationally. The real question for us, especially in the business and human rights community, is: what difference will it make? Ho...

Baroness Rosie Boycott opened the conference with a thoughtful keynote address.  She reflected on themes that would reappear throughout the day, beginning with the contrast between her own child...

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International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed conflicts.

Catherine Savard is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, where her thesis focuses on ecocide in international law. She holds two master’s degrees, respectively from the University of ...

The paper Exploring Ecocide and Human Rights in Small Island Developing States by Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo and Jeevesh Augnoo examines how ecocide disproportionately affects Small Island Develo...

Our ED Kate Mackintosh had the honor of addressing the Croatian Bar Association (CBA) this week on the topic “Criminalizing the Mass Destruction of Nature: Ecocide in National and International L...

Jojo founded Stop Ecocide International in 2017 together with the late barrister and legal pioneer Polly Higgins , to advance the recognition of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Cour...