30 May 2017 was the first day of the training for judges entitiled “Environmental protection and human rights” organized by International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” and the National School of Judges.
On the way to the training venue, participants of the training, including 27 judges of general jurisdiction of various instances, visited the pig raising farm in the village of Kernytsia in Horodotskyi disctrict Lviv region. The participants saw with their own eyes lakes of liquid manure that pig farmers placed in the middle of the field next to the farm and felt the smell that is a constant plague for local residents.
Fig. 1. The participants are setting off for the pig raising farm
Фото 2. Liquid manure dumped by the pig raising farm in the village of Kernytsia
But this smell cannot be compared to what the participants later saw and smelled on the bone recycling enterprise in the town of Zhovkva in Lviv region. The enterprise receives corpses, animal remnants, meat, fish and skin waste for recycling and production of meat and bone flour. The enterprise does not work at its full capacity, is at the stage of bankruptcy and does not have modern technologies for storage and environmentally safe recycling of the above mentioned substances. Some of animal remnants are just lying in the open.
Fig 3. The participants are putting on protection gowns and masks in order to be able to enter the bone recycling enterprise
Fig 4. Inside of the Zhovkva bone recycling enterprise
Фото 5. Fur and other animal remnants inside the bone recycling enterprise
Фото 6. Piles of bones in the territory of the bone recycling enterprise
Having arrived in Kremenets, the participants listened to the presentation of the judge-trainer Larysa Zuyeva and the founding rector of the Academy of Judges Iryna Voytiuk about international legal instruments and perspectives of protection of environmental rights. The first day of the training ended in preparation of judges for the role play on cases focusing on functioning of pig raising farms, Tashlyk hydro nuclear power plant and in nice talks under the evening sky.
Fig 7. Opening of the training for judges
Next come two days of intensive training where the leading judges of Ukraine will learn a lot of information on access to information, access to justice in environmental matters and will try the roles of plaintiffs in cases aimed at protection of the environment and environmental rights.
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