Health News of Monday, 9 March 2026Source: www.ghanaweb.comMinority Chief Whip and Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has made a passionate plea to government to consider criminalising mass destruction of the environment, particularly, water bodies, under a proposed ecocide law. He pointed out that while genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are already international crimes, peacetime ecocide still falls into a legal gap, allowing polluters, companies, and individuals to escape real accountability. He highlighted growing global momentum on ecocide law in at least 11 countries, including France, Belgium, Ecuador, and several former Soviet states. “This is not merely environmental law; it is justice law,” he said. Let us give meaning to that commitment by making ecocide a crime under Ghanaian law,” he said.

Source: GhanaWeb March 09, 2026 17:07 UTC