Engagement Strategy to Push Crimes against Future Generations

The World Future Council seeks funding to engage for changes in international jurisdiction, so that behaviour threatening future generations is deterred even if there are no relevant national laws. We are planning to

  • Reach out to human rights groups working on fair justice systems to seek their support for the official recognition of crimes against future generations as crimes against humanity.
  • Compile dossiers on acts and individuals that qualify as crimes and criminals under the World Future Council definition of Crimes against Future Generations and making sure everyone knows the worst cases.
  • Research existing legal cases or laws for the recognition of Crimes against Future Generations and preparing for legal action.
  • Investigate innovative forms of sentencing such as the provision of additional “services” or types of damages in addition to compensation, fines or imprisonment.

For further information and upates on most recent developments please contact Dr. Maja Göpel, WFC Director Future Justice.

"In the 1990s, The Cousteau Society developed and promoted a Bill of Rights for Future Generations… To enforce such a set of rights for future generations, we need to create a criminal conceptualization that designates the worst offenses against these rights as crimes against future generations, the worst crimes being those that would foreclose the future altogether or that would make life on the planet untenable."
WFC Councillor David Krieger, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation


 

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