From October 28-31, 2021, public hearings will be held in the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) against various transnational corporations and the complicity of the Dutch state in perpetrating intergenerational climate crimes.

The proceedings consist of introductions by prosecutors and various witness testimony, which will be overseen by four judges, Radha D’Souza, Sharon H. Venne, Nicholas Hildyard and Rasigan Maharajh.

Case: Comrades past, present and future vs. Airbus

31 October, 13:00-18:00

This case indicts Airbus Industries for designing, manufacturing and trading in destructive weapons including fighter planes, surveillance equipment and other weapons of war, with devastating environmental, social impacts in the Global South. Evidence will be presented on the environmental and social impacts of European wars using Airbus technologies that have deadly impacts on the environment, refugees and asylum seekers and the people of Yemen, by witnesses from global justice campaigns from Italy and Yemen, a.o.

Contributions by:

Global Legal Action Network (GLAN); Stop Wapenhandel (European Network Against Arms Trade – NL); Watch The Med; a.o.

The public will be joining the hearings as members of the jury. We highly recommend participants to stay all day. Walk-in and walk-outs are only possible during the breaks in between the sessions (Break ONE — 14:45-15:05 and Break TWO — 16:10-16:30). The hearings will be in English and are registration only due to corona regulations. Please read our corona regulations

Don't forget to come between 12:30 and 12:55 with your tickets and corona pas.