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Baroness Whitaker to ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park on 9 June (HL981), what plans they have to propose amendments to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court to include the crime of ecocide by amending preambular paragraph 2 and article 8 of the Rome Statute, as proposed by the Stop Ecocide Foundation in their document Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, published on 22 June.  HL1584

Question HL1584: tabled on 29 June 2021 and due for answer by 13 July 2021

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To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by {member id="4062" field="DisplayAs"}{/member} on 9 June (HL981), what plans they have to propose amendments to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court to include the crime of ecocide by amending preambular paragraph 2 and article 8 of the Rome Statute, as proposed by the Stop Ecocide Foundation in their document Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, published on 22 June.
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Baroness Whitaker
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