Events and Announcements

The 5th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention) is held in Maastricht (Netherlands) from 30 June till 2 July 2014. In the meeting hall there are over 450 official delegates and representatives of the public from…

Press-release On 6 May 2014, in Lviv there was held a Coordination meeting of non-governmental organizations providing pro bono legal aid for protection of environmental rights of communities.

On 19 March 2014, the National forum of experts from environmental NGOs, scholars and journalists will be held in the Aarhus center at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Kyiv, 35 Mytropolyt Vasyl’ Lypkivskyi St. (former Urytskoho St., the ground floor, room 103)). Participants of the Forum will discuss the future of environmental policy…

APPEAL of representatives of environmental, legal and academic civil communities to deputies of the 7th Supreme Council of Ukraine concerning criteria of evaluating candidates to the post of the Minister of Environment of Ukraine 24 February 2014 Criteria of evaluating candidates to the post of the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Ukraine

International charitable organization Environment-People-Law is seriously concerned about attempts to put pressure on International Renaissance Foundation and other civil society organizations. We found out about facts of hindrances that organizations face in making financial transactions and also repressions on organizations caused by tax agencies and police. All these absolutely unlawful actions are aimed at interfering…

January 16, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the bill № 3879, which was registered only two days earlier – January 14, 2014. As innovations of this bill, as quickness of its adoption by the Parliament, which usually delays the consideration of bills of the pressing issues for decades, are shocking for citizens and…

International public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law (EPL) has started realization of the project “Administrative reform in the sphere of environmental protection: consequences and ways of improvement”. The project is aimed at analyzing consequences of the administrative reform in the sphere of environmental protection and developing recommendations for eliminating drawbacks. The main result of the…

International public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law (EPL) has started realization of the project “Activation of actions of CSOs towards the lobbying of improvement of water legislation of Ukraine on the basis of standards of the EU Water Framework Directive”. The project is aimed at improved coordination of experts’ efforts in the area of bringing…

International charitable organization Environment-People-Law is pleased to announce that there has been launched a new project “Strengthening Participatory Democracy for Effective Environmental Protection in Ukraine” supported by United Nations Democracy Fund. The project is jointly realized by three organizations – International charitable organization Environment-People-Law, Kharkiv city non-governmental organization EcoPravo-Kharkiv, public environmental law organization EcoPravo-Kyiv and…