Events and Announcements

19 August 2015 Within the project “Improvement of access to justice in the sphere of protection of environmental rights of citizens and the environment” implemented at financial support of USAID EPL are developing a training course for judges “Environmental protection and human rights”.

05 August 2015 Illegal extraction of amber is in the limelight now. Having started analyzing the issue, EPL stopped at the point of analyzing functioning of public authorities that fail to perform their functions, which lead to embezzlement of national values causing economic and environmental losses.

It is not a secret that court decisions on environmental matters are not numerous among the whole spectrum of documents generated by judicial system of Ukraine. Moreover, majority of these cases are about criminal or administrative liability in this sphere, suits filed by authorities to levy costs of damage caused to the state as a…

When EPL called the mayor of the village Turya Polyana, she refused to set up a community meeting. Too busy, she said. So EPL went to the village anyway. They asked where was the community hall. Then they walked along the street, asking people to come to a meeting. Guerrilla public participation.

On 4-5 July, in Zhdeniyevo (Zakarpattia region) there will be a meeting of environmental lawyers in Central-Eastern Europe and Caucasus.

International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” started a training course on policy analysis for its employees. By English term “policy” we mean a complex strategy of actions aimed at solution of a certain problem. In Ukraine that we really hope started true reforms, it is vitally important to develop policy analysis in various spheres of social life…

The Access to Justice Task Force meeting within the Aarhus Convention took place in Geneva from 15 till 17 June. Besides representatives of governments of countries that are Parties to the Aarhus Convention, the meeting was attended by numerous representatives of civil society, academic institutions and international non-governmental organizations.

On 6 May 2015, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) held a press-conference under the title “After “clean-up” of the Kalush landfill, the concentration of deadly hexachlorobenzene exceeds the norm by half a million times”.

In late March, we reported that at its forty-eighth meeting (Geneva, 24-27 March 2015), the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee considered the preliminary admissibility of communication PRE/ACCC/C/2014/118 concerning Ukraine submitted by NGO “Environment-People-Law” on 18 November 2014.