FRANCE - EUROPEAN UNION

Marie Toussaint is a Member of the European Parliament since May 2019. She is in the institution working on the development of environmental law’s ambition and enforcement for the rights of the people and of natural commons. As a lawyer, she founded in 2015 the French climate justice NGO “Notre Affaire à Tous” which initiated “l’Affaire du Siècle”, the first ever climate litigation case against France, historically gathering more than 2 300 000 signatures of support. She is committed to fight for the recognition of ecocide crime and achieve environmental justice. 

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PHILIPPINOS

Rep. Eufemia “Ka Femia” C. Cullamat is the first genuine grassroots representative from the Indigenous Peoples of Mindanao. She is a Lumad peasant from the Manobo tribe in Surigao del Sur, Caraga Region.

Despite the difficulties, Ka Femia has dedicated herself to serve her Lumad community. She has been an active leader in her community since the 1980’s.

On September 1 2015, the bloody Lianga Massacre happened in the Lumad community of Surigao del Sur. This merciless attack against her Lumad community was what pushed Ka Femia to devote herself fully to the Lumad struggle. She became a full-time organizer for a regional Lumad organization and was one of the most vocal speakers in exposing the abuses against Lumad communities.

In 2019, she was elected as a representative to the 18th Congress under Bayan Muna Partylist. 

SWEDEN

Rebecka Le Moine is a member of the green party and spokesperson for Biodiversity. She has been awarded the “environmental hero” by the WWF and the King of Sweden, for taking the initiative to celebrate the UN biodiversity day in Sweden. With a master degree in conservation biology and a background as a biology consultant, her biggest concern is to find political solutions to tackle the mass extinction of our fellow species. Therefore, she is working to change our basic values, where animals and Nature also has legal rights, and where ecocide is recognized as a criminal act.

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CANADA

In 2010, Larissa Waters became the first Australian Greens Senator ever elected in Queensland.  She is now the Australian Greens’ co-deputy Leader, Leader in the Senate, and national spokesperson on Women, Democracy, Mining & Resources.

Before entering parliament, Senator Waters worked as a community sector environmental lawyer.  In 2010 she was named Australian Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year.

She is passionate about representative democracy and public participation, accountability in government, equality for women, and protecting our environment. She works tirelessly to improve federal laws to end domestic violence, transition to renewable energy sources, and clean up politics by ending corporate donations to political parties and establishing a federal corruption watchdog.

She lives in Brisbane with her two young daughters, the younger of whom caused a bit of a stir when she became the first baby to be breastfed in Australia’s federal parliament.

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AUSTRALIA

Senator Janet Rice is an Australian Greens Senator for Victoria, and is the party spokesperson for science, research and innovation, forests, foreign affairs, multiculturalism, transport and infrastructure, and LGBTIQ+ issues. She is the Federal Greens' Party Room Chair and Deputy Whip. 

Janet is a climate scientist by training. She has been a community and environmental activist and campaigner all her adult life, and is proud of her role as one of the leaders of the campaign that led to the creation of National Parks in East Gippsland in Victoria that protect some of the most intact and biodiverse forests in Australia, and of being one of the founders of the Australian Greens Victoria.

Prior to becoming a senator in 2014 Janet was a councillor and mayor of Maribyrnong Council in Melbourne’s west, and Chair of the Melbourne Metropolitan Transport forum.

Throughout her time in the Senate, Janet has been a passionate advocate for nature, for action on our climate crisis and for peace, democracy and human rights and economic and social justice across the globe.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin is a city councilmember in his hometown of Port Angeles, Washington State, United States, a small city on the edge of the Salish Sea and the Olympic Mountains, in the historic territory of the Klallam People (nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕).

He is also a lawyer, focusing on issues of the relative power of governments, corporations, and the people, specificlly state interferance with local democracy.

He has represented the Little Mahoning Watershed, Crystal Spring Ecosystem, and Lake Erie Ecosystem in court, and published on rights of nature in Representing Ecosystems in Court: An Introduction for Practitioners, 31 Tulane Envtl. L.J. 279 (2018); Nature’s Rights through Lawmaking in the United States, in La Follette & Maser (Eds.), Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practise (CRC Press 2019); and The Rights of Nature Movement in the United States, in Anthony R. Zelle et al. (Eds.), Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law—A Guide for Practitioners (Aspen Coursebook, Wolters Kluwer 2020).

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SWITZERLAND

Raphaël Mahaim is a member of the Parliemant of the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) since 2007. He is commited to environmental justice and human rights ever since. As a an attorney at law in Lausanne, he is particularly active in climate litigation (affaire des “aînées pour la protection du climat” and affaire des “activistes climatiques contre Credit Suisse”) and also environmental cases at a local level (nature, biodiversity, landscape protection, etc.). He also teaches planning law and environmental law at the University of Lausanne and the Haute-Ecole de Suisse occidentale. He is passionnate about fighting for a better future and for the democratic rights of those who stand for more respect for nature.

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BELGIUM - EUROPEAN UNION

Saskia Bricmont, born on March 16, 1985, is a Belgian politician, member of the Ecolo party. Originally from Ath, she has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019. This mother of two boys defends a project of open, altruistic and tolerant society, and intends to put all her commitment at the service of a renewed European project, by being the relay of all those who commit themselves daily for the climate, social justice, democracy and human rights.

For her, it is indeed at the European level that some major issues are at stake, such as climate change, the challenge of migration, human rights, the rise of inequalities, the refoundation of our social model, human rights, women and LGBTQI+ rights. She is a member of the "Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)" and "International Trade (INTA)" committees.

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

APHR is a regional network of current and former parliamentarians who use their unique positions to advance human rights and democracy in Southeast Asia. We seek to help create a region where people can express themselves without fear, live free from all forms of discrimination and violence, and where development takes place with human rights at the forefront.

Our members use their mandate to advocate for human rights inside and outside of parliaments, regionally and globally. They work closely with civil society, conduct fact-finding missions, and publish recommendations and opinions on the most important issues affecting the region.

APHR was born out of the recognition that human rights issues in Southeast Asia are interconnected, and from the desire of progressive legislators to work together across borders to promote and protect human rights.

The APHR network of parliamentarians has decided to join the Ecocide Alliance in 2021.

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CANADA

Elizabeth May served as Leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006 – 2019, in 2011 becoming the Green Party of Canada’s first elected Member of Parliament representing Saanich-Gulf Islands. She will continue as Member of Parliament and will run again, now serving as the Parliamentary Leader of the Green Caucus.

In 2005, Elizabeth May was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her decades of leadership in the Canadian environmental movement. She graduated from Dalhousie Law School and was admitted to the Bar in both Nova Scotia and Ontario. She practiced law in Ottawa with the Public Interest Advocacy Centre prior to becoming Senior Policy Advisor to the federal minister of the Environment (1986-1988). For seventeen years Elizabeth served as Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada (1989-2006).

A proud mother and grandmother, she lives in Sidney, British Columbia, with her husband John Kidder. Elizabeth is the author of eight books, including her most recent book, Who We Are: Reflections on my life and on Canada.

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VENEZUELA

Alejandro José Aguilera Rodriguez, 39 years old, is Venezuelan. His profession is a civil engineer and lawyer. He graduated from the University of the East of Anzoategui State, Venezuela.

He is currently the National Secretary General of the Ecological Movements of Venezuela, Deputy of the National Assembly, Principal Deputy before the Mercosur parliament, Member of the permanent Sub-commission of international treaties and conventions and President of the special sub-commission for the Implementation and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

He is also the delegate of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas to the Global Greens.

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UNITED KINGDOM

Natalie Bennett (or Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle) is a Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. She was leader of the Green Party of England and Wales 2012-2106 and the editor of the Guardian Weekly from 2007-12.

She tabled amendments to the UK Environment Bill backing international and national offences, and traces her involvement with the issue back to a 2008 seminar at the British Library.

With her first degree in Agricultural Science, she can get very geeky about soils, although tries to only do that with genuinely interested audiences.

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SCOTLAND

Monica Lennon is a Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland region.

She is the Scottish Labour’s spokesperson on Net Zero, Energy and Transport. Monica Lennon delivered the world-leading Period Products Act, working with trade unions and with campaigners and activists in communities all over Scotland and beyond.

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ICELAND

Andrés Ingi Jónsson has been a member of Alþingi, the Parliament of Iceland, since 2016. He currently represents the Pirate Party in the Reykjavík North constituency.

He seats in the Environment and Communications Committee and in the Icelandic delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

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REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Jennifer Whitmore TD  is the Social Democrats party spokesperson on Climate and Biodiversity and is a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action.

Before entering politics, Deputy Whitmore trained and worked extensively as an marine ecologist, working with the Marine Institute as a fisheries scientist. She spent 10 years in Australia where she worked as a senior policy analyst in the NSW Government developing environmental law, water management and energy policy. Her work also involved collaboration with indigenous communities in relation to cultural rights and resource management.

In her role as Member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action, Deputy Whitmore has worked to advocate for stronger climate action targets in legislation, with a focus on biodiversity protections. Her first piece of legislation focused on placing Basking Sharks on the protective species list in Ireland, in recognition of their endangered status and as a species of cultural and global importance.

Deputy Whitmore is passionate about the environment and the need for a cultural and societal shift in how we view and protect our planet.

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CYPRUS

Alexandra Attalides is a Member of the House of Representatives, serving as Representative of Nicosia constituency under the banner of the Cyprus Greens-Citizens’ Cooperation, since June 2021. She currently serves as Member of the House Standing Committees on Internal Affairs, Human Rights and Institutions. She is also, a Member of the delegation of the House to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), to the Interparliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and to the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) at the Working Group on "Climate change and the environment”. Furthermore, she is a member of many civil society organisations in the fields of human rights and environmental protection. Previously, she served as Spokesperson of the Office of the European Parliament in Cyprus for twelve years (2008-2020). She was Director of Communication of the University of Nicosia and she has worked for the Cyprus Tourist Organisation (Now Deputy Ministry for Tourism). She has Master of Business Administration with a specialization in European Management MBA (Ηοns) from the Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Degree in Communication and Public Relations. She is also an accredited Advanced Member of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK (MCIM UK), Member of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) and Member of the Society of Technical Analysts UK (STA UK). She speaks English, French and Greek.

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DENMARK

Susanne Zimmer is a member of the Danish parliament for the party Independent Greens. She is the spokesperson for nature, environment, agriculture, transport, health and covers a number of other political areas. The struggle for biodiversity and a healthy liveable planet with a much more thriving and flourishing nature is one of the things that Susanne is very passionate about in her political work.

Before being elected as MP, she had run her own gallery and has been the head master of a few schools in the Northern part of Denmark after having worked as a school teacher for a number of years.

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UKRAINE

I am a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, Chair of the Sub-Committee on forest resources, fauna and flora, natural landscapes and objects of the nature reserve fund of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Environmental Policy and Natural Resources since 2019.

Also, I am the Member of the Ukrainian delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and participate in the Network of Contact Parliamentarians for a healthy environment on the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. 

Before I was elected MP I was an Acting Dean of the Faculty of Biology of Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University. It is the first displaced university in Ukraine. I have a PhD in biological sciences.

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UGANDA

On 14th January 2021, Kaaya Christine Nakimwero was elected the Woman Member of Parliament for Kiboga District to serve in the 11th Parliament for the period 2021 - 2026. She is the flag bearer of the National Unity Platform (NUP). She is the Shadow Minister for Water and Environment. Christine is the Chair for the Uganda Parliamentarians Land Management Forum. She is the publicity for the Uganda Catholic Chaplaincy. She recently won the Women in Climate Change 2022 Climate Policy advocacy for demonstrating outstanding policy leadership and advocacy at national and community levels. In 2022, she was awarded for being a dedicated Champion of Land Rights at Parliament by the National Land Forum Uganda.

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ZIMBABWE

Fortune Daniel Molokele is a human rights lawyer, founder and managing partner of the Molokele Law Chambers located at Whange town, Zimbabwe

In January 2024, he commenced his PhD. in Leadership studies with the International Leadership University based at Nairobi

Over the years, Molokele has worked for several NGOs both in Zimbabwe and South Africa

In July 2018, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Whange Central constituency. In August 2023, he was re-elected for his second term. He is an ordinary member for the portfolio Committees on Women Affairs and Small and Medium Enterprises, the Committee on Health and Childcare and the Committee on Tourism and Hospitality.

Email: danielmolokele@gmail.com
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Website: www.danielmolokele.com