United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 177706
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30 March 2023
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18 April 2023 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to work with other parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to propose an amendment to make ecocide a crime under that st
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30 March 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to work with other parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to propose an amendment to make ecocide a crime under that st
Source: Commons
18 April 2023
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'Ecocide' is not a crime recognised under the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute. While there are currently no UK plans to propose an amendment to the Rome Statute to include 'ecocide', Article 8 of the Rome Statute does provide protections to th...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-03-30/177706
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1609221
- uk · wq-1609221 · source updated 18 April 2023