The International Criminal Court in The Hague is to broaden its focus to prosecute governments and individuals for environmental crimes, write John Vidal & Owen Bowcott. Examples include illegal deforestation, theft of resources, and expulsion of populations from their land.
… in The Hague, has mostly ruled on cases of genocide and war crimes since it was set up in … led to many forced evictions, the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples, malnutrition …