Because environmental rights are directly related to the basic human right – the right to life, the practice of using human rights legal tools for protection of the environment is intensively developing. In order to disseminate this practice and promote environmentalization of all spheres of social life in Ukraine the project was initiated. The goal of the project is to improve access to justice for citizens in the sphere of protection of environmental rights and the environment through development of an educational course on environmental law for judges, wide notification of judges about Ukrainian and foreign jurisprudence in the sphere of protection of environmental rights and development of recommendation for elimination of barriers in access to justice for protection of environmental rights. The educational course will be implemented as part of educational process at the National School of Judges of Ukraine and within the project at least 7 trainers of the course on protection of environmental rights will be trained, which will allow to disseminate the course as educational tool for judges on the national level.
For further information please contact:
Olena Kravchenko,
executive director
okravchenko@epl.org.ua
Iryna Voytiuk,
leading expert
irynavot@ukr.net
tel. (+380 32) 2257682
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The project “Access to information to advance environmental rights in Ukraine”
The project is aimed at advancing access to environmental information as a precondition of active participation of citizens in protection of their environmental rights via strategic litigation, advisory assistance to communities and citizens, analytical activities. Tasks of the project include also raising environmental awareness of citizens via active work with communities, awareness raising campaigns, involvement of citizens to solution of their environmental problems.
For further information please contact:
Olena Kravchenko,
executive director
okravchenko@epl.org.ua
Ганна Хомечко,
керівник проектів і програм
h.khomechko@epl.org.ua
тел. (+380 32) 2257682
