Date and registration
Tuesday 7th December 2021
18h30 CET on Zoom
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Opening address
Mr Dreli Solomon, Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of Republic of Vanuatu, Brussels
Supporting statement
Rt. Hon. Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Prime Minister, Independent State of Samoa
Speakers from the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide
- Professor Philippe Sands QC, UCL/Matrix Law. (UK/France, Co-chair)
- Dior Fall Sow, UN jurist & former prosecutor (Senegal, Co-chair)
- Judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade, former ICC judge (Samoa, Panelist)
- Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (Bangladesh, Panelist)
- Jojo Mehta, Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation (UK, Convenor)
With reflections from
- HRH Esmeralda of Belgium, journalist, author & activist
- HRH El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, humanitarian, & peace & interfaith advocate
- Mindahi Bastida, indigenous elder & spokesperson (Mexico, Otomi-Toltec tradition)
Moderated by
Andrew Harding, BBC Africa correspondent
Hosted by
Organised by Stop Ecocide International and co-hosted by the Republic of Vanuatu, the Independent State of Samoa and the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, in association with the Stop Ecocide Foundation, Institute for Environmental Security and The Hague Peace Projects.