In a previous post a few days ago, we discussed "The Code," a documentary that seeks to promote Universal Jurisdiction and the global fight for Human Rights.
Well, the good news has arrived. Following an intense crowdfunding campaign, the project has reached its funding goal thanks to 336 backers who contributed to complete the €55,170 target, which will be used to produce the film.
The director of "The Code" commented: "After 3 years of working on the project, we launched a crowdfunding campaign to secure the funds needed to finish it. The amount raised will go toward covering image and sound post-production costs, archival footage, music licenses, translations, as well as distribution and promotion expenses. Having achieved the necessary funding, we are confident that we will finish the film by the autumn of 2017."
This chart shows how the funds raised will be allocated:
From Aldana Foundation, we would like to send a heartfelt thank you to all the backers of this project, which will undoubtedly mark a milestone in changing justice and human rights legislation worldwide.
About the film "The Code"
Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who ordered the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet, and more than one hundred prestigious jurists from around the world are working to ensure that major economic, financial, and environmental crimes can be prosecuted internationally. Armed with one tool: Universal Jurisdiction.
Judges, prosecutors, and lawyers are working to ensure that, in addition to genocide and war crimes, actions such as speculating on basic food supplies, issuing "junk bonds," squandering public funds, or large-scale pollution can be reported internationally and considered Crimes Against Humanity.
Throughout history, there have been visionaries who understood much earlier than others that slavery, colonialism, or apartheid were not the natural order of things, but rather immoral practices by a minority that should be considered illegal. Today, a judge leads an international movement to help us understand that major economic fraud is not a systemic flaw, but rather a premeditated act by an elite that must be recognized as a crime.
In Buenos Aires, in September 2015, during the Universal Jurisdiction Congress, a new list of crimes against humanity was approved, including the characteristics that classify certain decisions as economic or environmental crimes against humanity. All this effort must reach national legislations. Buenos Aires is the starting point for a group of pioneering men and women, led by Judge Baltasar Garzón, to fight to change the current state of impunity by using their talent, imagination, and knowledge.
On a planet of 8 billion people, irresponsible economic decisions can be catastrophic. Legal activists want to end impunity, fighting together for the common good and for an end to the impunity of major economic, financial, and environmental crimes.
