Hague Appeal for Future Generations released today: Call for 15 urgent global actions
Posted: 24th October 2025
* Hague Appeal for Future Generations released today:
Call for 15 urgent global actions
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for Peace and Future Generations
United Nations Day, October 24, 2025Organizations and individuals who met in Hague last month for a conference on future generations and eco-peace, have used the occasion of UN Day (the 80th anniversary of the United Nations) to call for 15 urgent global actions to secure peace with each other and the natural environment, protect current and future generations, advance justice, and shape a positive future.
“The rights and wellbeing of current and future generations are threatened by a poly-crisis consisting of climate change, armed conflict, escalating risk of nuclear war, economic disparity, competition over depleting natural resources, exploitation of our natural environment, ecosystem collapse, authoritarianism, manifest violations of international law, political disinformation and corruption,” said Neshan Gunasekera, CEO of the World Future Council and a co-organiser of the conference.
Co-organizers of the Hague Conference for Future Generations and Creating EcoPeace: Wallapa van Willenswaard, Neshan Gunasekera and Hans van Willenswaard promoting Stop Nuclear Weapons: Peace is in our Hands and Earth Trusteeship at the conference. 15 Actions build on positive measures already in place
The Hague Appeal for Future Generations: Action now to secure Peace and protect the Future released today, highlights a number of international agreements and mechanisms that already help build global cooperation and accountability to protect current and future generations. The 15 urgent actions build on these.
“The United Nations, international rule of law and international judicial institutions provide a solid basis for building the global cooperation, governance and accountability required to protect current and future generations, if better supported and strengthened during this time of critical challenges,” asserted Alyn Ware, Program Director for the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy.
“The Hague Appeal therefore calls for all countries to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and ratify the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court,” said Mr. Ware. “It also calls for the crimes of ecocide and slavery to be added to ICC jurisdiction, ensuring full ICC jurisdiction for the crime of aggression, and establishing an International Anti-Corruption Court to confront crimes of corruption not adequately addressed in national legal systems.”
Participants of the Hague Conference for Future Generations and Creating EcoPeace.15 Actions inspired by agroecology and legal systems incorporating Trusteeship principles
Many of the actions in the Appeal are inspired by effective practices in agroecology and legal systems incorporating Trusteeship principles.
“We can learn from local, national and indigenous legal systems which already embody principles of trusteeship to build better management of the global commons and the planet,” advised Dr. van Willenswaard, Core Team Member of the Earth Trusteeship Initiative and member of Mobilizing an Earth Governance Alliance. “One practical measure is to create additional marine and terrestrial reserves based on the principles of Earth Trusteeship, in order to cover at least 30% of the world’s land and seas with such protected common areas by 2030.”
Hague a city of peace and justice
The conference was held in the Hague, a city which hosts the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
“Emanating from the City of Peace and Justice, this appeal carries special resonance—eighty years after humanity first pledged ‘never again’ to the scourge of war,” affirmed Ms. Rebecca Shoot, Co-Convener of the ImACT Coalition for Strengthening International Judicial Institutions. ”In an age when impunity runs unchecked, we are called once more to renew that promise and unite for a world ruled by law, not by war.”
For the full announcement, see Hague Appeal for Future Generations: Call on the 80th anniversary of the UN for action to secure peace and protect the future.