In Support of an International Judicial Architecture for Enforceable Environmental and Human Rights
By Kirk Boyd
Legal Pact is linking people, NGOs, businesses, and governments to design and build an international judicial architecture for enforceable environmental and human rights.
Now as you read this, you may think it sounds like such an overwhelming task that you wonder how you can participate as a person, NGO, business, or even a government. The answer is, you can, even if you only spend one minute to become a link with others - and it may be one of the most powerful things that you do in your personal life, the life of an NGO, business, or government.
You see, there are some things, like a painting perhaps, that may be best done by one person. If Picasso were painting, it probably would not have been a good idea to say "hey Pablo, how about a little bit more green over there." One, most likely, Picasso would have ignored you, and, two, if he had followed your advice it may be that some of the genius of the painting would have been lost.
European Court of Human Rights
Not so with the design of an international judicial architecture for enforceable environmental and human rights. Such an architecture covers a vast array of humanity, and all other living creatures, along with the land, sea, all parts of Earth. Only a vast array of input can design it, including input from a broad, diverse range of people, NGOs, businesses, and governments from all corners of Earth.
The exciting thing is that at this moment in history, we have the technological means to engage in such a vast endeavor. We can link in genuine ways, more comprehensively and inclusively, than ever before.
To this end, Legal Pact does not claim to have a design for an international judicial architecture: Legal Pact is a facilitator, linking various elements together, not to pick or choose, or in judgment, but to provide thoughts, images, movies, music, art, posts, essays, articles, books - anything with the common thread of judicial enforcement of environmental and human rights.
International Criminal Court
With this design, Legal Pact further aspires to facilitate the building of a tapestry of courts in all countries: domestic, regional and international so that rights are not claims made as aspirations, but are enforceable in courts, with orders from Judges that can be issued to strengthen our social contract with one another, the environment of which we are all part, and between those who govern and those who are governed. We want "more courts and fewer reports."
So welcome to the Legal Pact! You can show your support by linking with us below.
In these times of fragmentation, war, and faced with the demise of our environment, let us do something together — join us in creating an international movement, and let it be a movement, not for declarations, but for judicially enforceable environmental and human rights.
