On 4-5 July, in Zhdeniyevo (Zakarpattia region) there will be a meeting of environmental lawyers in Central-Eastern Europe and Caucasus.
Development of regional cooperation in the field of reforming and enforcing joint interests for protection of human rights and the environment is as topical as never. In the 21st century environmental lawyers face new challenges in the sphere of environmental protection and human rights. Currently it is very important to create a more favorable legal environment for civil society of the countries striving for the EU membership, to raise awareness of civil society institutions and citizens of importance of application of strategic litigation for protection of their rights, to increase effectiveness of legal protection of environmental rights through systematic changes. It is possible to reach these results through experience exchange among environmental lawyers of the EU countries and those countries in the region that are on the way to joining European community, through development of joint strategies for overcoming new challenges and realization of new perspectives. The Association of environmental law of Central and Eastern Europe “Guta” played and can play an important role in the process. The most effective instrument of such cooperation can become the international conference of the Association.
Participants of the conference will gather with the aim to exchange knowledge among attorneys, public interest lawyers, organizations involved to the issues of protection of environmental rights and environmental protection; to promote awareness of the concept of strategic litigation for protection of environmental rights and the environment, discussion of difficulties and challenges in handling strategic litigation processes in the region, hindrances in access to justice in various legal systems and ways of their overcoming, to get familiar with the experience of handling strategic litigation processes in various countries of Central and Eastern Europe, discuss and approve the new edition of the Association Charter.
For further information please contact:
Olena Kravchenko,
EPL director
tel.: (032) 225 – 76 – 82
email: okravchenko@epl.org.ua
Hanna Khomechko,
EPL development director
tel.: (032) 225 – 76 – 82
email: h.khomechko@epl.org.ua
