{"id":8512,"date":"2021-02-22T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2021-02-22T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:27:17","slug":"ecocide-campaign-mother-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/ecocide-campaign-mother-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping the destruction of Mother Nature | The Stop Ecocide Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><b>Stopping the destruction of Mother Nature | The Stop Ecocide Campaign<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this episode of The Spark, we interview Jojo Mehta, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Stop Ecocide International about the background and purpose of the Stop Ecocide campaign, which was launched in 2017. We talk about what \u201cecocide\u201d refers to and what it would mean if ecocide is recognised as the fifth crime at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Finally, we talk about the growing support for the Stop Ecocide campaign and what it means for the future of the environment with such a law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Stopping-the-destruction-of-Mother-Nature-_-The-Stop-Ecocide-Campaign.pdf\">Stopping the destruction of Mother Nature |The Stop Ecocide Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0Stopping the destruction of Mother Nature | The Stop Ecocide Campaign<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stopping the destruction of Mother Nature | The Stop Ecocide Campaign\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShgwHQudayw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT\u00a0JOJO MEHTA<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Jojo Mehta<\/strong>\u00a0co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017, alongside UK lawyer the late Polly Higgins, to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court (ICC). She co-ordinates between the fast-growing international campaign (teams in 8 countries, websites in 7 languages) and the lawyers, advocates and parliamentarians engaged in the core work of progressing the crime. She is a graduate of Oxford and London universities and has a background in communications, entrepreneurship and on-the-ground environmental campaigning.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0CITATION OF FEATURED IMAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Source \/ Author:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopecocide.earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.stopecocide.earth\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Spark, we interview Jojo Mehta, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Stop Ecocide International about the background and purpose of the Stop Ecocide campaign, which was launched in 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