At the 10th International Symposium, Stop Ecocide, a Possible Utopia!

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Recognizing ecocide as the 5th Crime Against Peace in the International Criminal Court. Is it a utopia?

From this website we will be announcing the activities that will be carried out in our 10th International Symposium of the World Center for Humanist Studies, which will take place from May 8 to 11, 2025. 

Maite Mompó will give a presentation on the international campaign that the Stop Ecocide movement has been developing. This movement works with the objective of getting ECOCIDE recognized as the 5th Crime Against Peace in the International Criminal Court. ECOCIDE in a broad sense is the massive damage and destruction of ecosystems, that is, serious damage to nature on a widespread or long-term basis. In this presentation, Maite will tell us about the latest and significant advances that have occurred and the different forms of support they have. 

This organization seeks to modify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the only global mechanism that directly accesses the existing criminal justice systems in its 123 member states.  

Stop Ecocidio has more than 10 years of collective experience and history in this work, collaborating with diplomats, politicians, lawyers, business leaders, NGOs, indigenous and religious groups, influencers, academic experts, social movements, individuals and a wide network of allied groups for this purpose. If you are part of environmental movements, it will be interesting to know the scope of this initiative and support it from your group.

Maite, the director of the Stop Ecocide campaign in Spanish, has a Law degree from Castilla-La Mancha, author of Rainbow Warriors, legendary stories of the Greenpeace ships, sailor, teacher and is specialized in Ecological Ethics, Sustainability and Education Environmental. She has a long history of working in human rights, peace and the environment, in direct collaboration with numerous organizations as a worker, volunteer and activist, while she has dedicated much of her life to giving talks and conferences and developing environmental awareness projects.