User:John Cummings/Articles/Jojo Mehta
Jojo Mehta is a British lawyer and campaigner, she is the CEO and co-founder of Stop Ecocide International.[1] She co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017 with barrister Polly Higgins, to support ecocide becoming the fifth crime at the International Criminal Court.[2] She is Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation as well as the convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.[3]
Jojo is a graduate of University of Oxford and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Before founding Stop Ecocide International she worked in communications, entrepreneurship and wider environmental campaigning.[4]
"We believe that a law like this actually will have to come into play at some point. All we're trying to do is accelerate that point in order to protect humanity."[3]
Jojo has written for ???
https://diem25.org/legally-protecting-nature-the-power-recognising-ecocide/
Mehta has stated she beleives that the crime of ecocide ???? “Indeed, I have no doubt that with this direction of travel being rapidly established, it is only a matter of time before ecocide is recognised in criminal law at every level.”
- https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/staples-electronics-recycling-program-rewards/
- https://theecologist.org/2021/nov/11/ecocide-law-will-come-faster-expected
- https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34HC7GU
- https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/the-planet-can-only-be-protected-from-short-sighted-politics-by-criminalising-ecocide
- https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/jojo-mehta-criminalizing-ecocide/
Short interview or statement in articles about the topic of ecocide law, while they're not full interviews the jounralist has spoken to her as a subject matter expert, many of the articles include an image of her as she is a signifcant part of the article.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/sunday-review/bolsonaro-amazon-fire.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/30/international-lawyers-draft-plan-to-criminalise-ecosystem-destruction
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/activists-push-make-ecocide-international-crime
- https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/society-watch-drive-make-ecocide-an-international-crime-gains-momentum-2023-02-20/
- https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/climate-criminals-face-twenty-years-31383138
- https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19629824.crime-ecocide-enshrined-law/
- https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23910341.msp-behind-scary-scottish-ecocide-law-says-hopes-never-used/
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062021/ecocide-definition-panel-international-crime/
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112023/eu-sets-new-environmental-crimes-ecocide/
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide
- https://stroudtimes.com/campaigner-and-her-mule-head-to-stroud-on-final-leg-of-epic-journey/
- https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/parliament-adds-ecocide-to-eus-draft-list-of-environmental-crimes/
- https://environmentjournal.online/climate-change/camden-becomes-first-uk-council-to-endorse-ecocide-laws/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/how-a-growing-movement-plans-to-put-ecocide-on-a-par-with-war-crimes.html
- https://theecologist.org/2023/jul/05/protecting-heart-earth-ecocide
- https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/criminalize-ecocide-cross-party-members-of-parliament-join-in-talks-to-declare-widespread-environmental-destruction-an-international-crime/
- https://diem25.org/legally-protecting-nature-the-power-recognising-ecocide/ writing in ??
- https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/momentum-new-ecocide-law-scotland-30737565
- https://www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/interviews/4901-ecocide-perpetrators-of-environmental-destruction-should-be-prosecuted-just-like-war-criminals-are
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/activists-push-make-ecocide-international-crime
Articles by her published in reliable sources
- https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/the-planet-can-only-be-protected-from-short-sighted-politics-by-criminalising-ecocide
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/24/climate-crisis-ecocide-international-crime
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/polly-higgins-obituary
Thanks very much
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- ^ Vevers, Dan (2024-01-20). "Scotland leading the conversation in move for ecocide laws, says top campaigner". Daily Record. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ "Jojo Mehta on Criminalizing Ecocide". Earth Island Journal. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ a b "Why activists want to make ecocide a crime against humanity". CBC.
- ^ "Jojo Mehta". Stop Ecocide International. Retrieved 2024-05-16.