An Austrian NGO brings Brazilian President Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court over the harmful effects of his deforestation policies. An Austrian NGO brings Brazilian President Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court over the harmful effects of his deforestation policies.
An Austrian non-governmental organisation has reported Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Activists from AllRise hold him responsible for crimes against humanity over the rampant deforestation taking place in the Amazon since his mandate began, with the entire world at risk of bearing the consequences.
Over the summer, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib), a network of organisations and one of the strongest voices in the country on the subject of protecting indigenous peoples, had already moved to bring Bolsonaro before the judges in The Hague over his hostile policies towards Brazil's indigenous communities. In January, two indigenous leaders, Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapo and Almir Narayamoga Surui of the Paiter Surui tribe, had submitted a dossier to the International Criminal Court documenting the processes of deforestation, deportation and killing of indigenous people under way in the country since 2019, when the president came to power.
Now it is the turn of AllRise, an Austrian non-governmental organisation that has officially filed a complaint with the ICC against Bolsonaro for crimes against humanity. The activists are pointing the finger at the surge in deforestation that has occurred in the country during his mandate — a development that is putting not only indigenous communities but the entire world at risk. The Amazon rainforest is in fact considered the green lung of the planet for its capacity to absorb large quantities of CO2, but the amount of carbon it releases now exceeds the amount it is able to store, precisely as a result of rampant deforestation. This makes the future of everyone increasingly precarious.
AllRise, 'The Planet Vs. Bolsonaro' by 180 AmsterdamThePlanet VS. Bolsonaro.Really proud of our latest work for the global NGO AllRise going live today, aiming to set a groundbreaking legal precedent for protecting Planet Earth.AllRise have filed a complaint against the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro at the ICC in the Hague but they are calling on each and every one of us to join the conversation.Share. Sign. Stop his crimes.https://www.theplanetvs.org/ #TheWorldAsItCouldBe #ThePlanetVs #AllRise #Communications #ClimateCrisis
Posted by 180Amsterdam on Tuesday, October 12, 2021
AllRise, in its dossier submitted to the judges in The Hague, speaks of at least 180,000 indirect deaths worldwide that could be the result of Jair Bolsonaro's policies between now and 2100. The president is held responsible for 4,000 square kilometres of deforestation in three years, with an increase of 88 per cent in deforestation since he came to power. Prominent figures in the environmental field contributed to drawing up the document, including Friederike Otto, one of the authors of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Ipcc) published last August. The judges in The Hague are now awaited to respond, though they are not obliged to issue a ruling on the dossier.