Events and Announcements

of the round-table “Military actions in eastern Ukraine: risks and consequences for the environment and health” 22 January 2015, Aarhus Information Center, Kyiv  The round-table discussion was attended by representatives of central executive authorities, research institute, national and international NGOs.

On 22 January, in Kyiv, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) jointly with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue held a round-table discussion “Military actions in Ukraine: risks and consequences for the environment and health” that gathered representatives of the state and experts who study consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine for the environment and human…

Press-release Having exhausted all national tools of judicial protection, at the end of November 2014 International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (hereinafter EPL) submitted a communication on Ukraine to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. The communication covers alleged violations by Ukraine of its international obligations within the Aarhus Convention during development and conclusion of agreements on hydrocarbons…

Despite the fact that there are a number of important legal tools for environmental protection, environment continues to be a silent victim of military conflicts in the whole world2. Since 1999, the UN Environmental Program has conducted more than twenty post-conflict assessments of environment determining the main influence of the war. «Having analyzed reports of…

International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” organized examination of the most valuable protected areas of Donetsk region affected by military actions. The examination was conducted in the national natural park “Sviati hory”, the regional landscape park “Slovianskyi kurort” and the natural reserve “Kreydiana flora” located on the outskirts of Sloviansk town. The experts examined the scale of…

On 21 September 2014, International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) and Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) at the international symposium “Human Rights and Environment in a New Ukraine” held in Lviv urged the world community of environmental lawyers to make efforts to stop military aggression in eastern Ukraine and stop devastation of environment in the zone…

Experts of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) made a study of protected areas affected by military actions in eastern Ukraine. Currently there are 33 of such areas in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions. “It is easy to imagine a forest on fire or shell-holes in protected steppes. However, negative impacts caused by war to the…

Experts of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” collected facts proving destruction of protected areas in the ATO zone. The damage caused by war to protected forests only is worth 13 890 700 000 UAH.

These are findings of experts of the International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” (EPL) who studied the ATO zone using MODIS2 data and Scanex technology3. The research is continuation of EPL’s work in the field of analysis of consequences of military actions for the environment in the ATO zone. Military actions are powerful factors of impact on…

The research conducted by experts of International charitable organization “Environment-People-Law” revealed that as a result of shelling of Shchastia town the concentrations of hazardous substances have considerably increased. Indicators for certain pollutants in the air have substantially exceeded maximum permissible concentrations.