Benjamin Ferencz Lecture Series: Prosecuting Russian Environmental War Crimes

• Date: 16 June
• Time: 17:00 - 19:00
• Location: Leiden Universiteit

In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as a means of attaining military advantage, demoralizing the population, and rendering parts of Ukraine uninhabitable. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine’s coast. Will the perpetrators of these heinous attacks be brought to justice? Where will they be tried? And what law will apply? Our speakers, who helped prepare Ukrainian prosecutors and judges to try Russian environmental war crimes, present an insider's perspective on these questions.

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