Events and Announcements

Dear friends, ELAW Fellow Nataliya Horodetska arrived from Lviv on Sunday. This is orientation week for her at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute. Nataliya will be with us for 10 weeks, to collaborate on her work as Legal Advisor at Environment People Law and improve her English.

The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from NGOs within a project “Public enforcement of independence and fairness of courts” developed a list of five top court decisions in Ukraine important for human rights protection. The selection was made on the basis of five criteria: importance of protected rights, potential or actual…

The level of trust to judicial system in Ukraine is very low, this being caused by numerous biased decisions and selective justice. However, there is a ray of hope in this situation as there are some court decisions ensuring real protection for human rights. The Center for Political and Legal Reforms together with experts from…

Earlier EPL informed that in November 2012 the appellate court upheld a lower court decision from October 2011 ordering the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine to post full texts of all EIA decision taken over three years. In 2011 the administrative court met Environmental-People-Law’s (EPL) claim and declared that failure of the…

Dear deputies, dear Lviv region community! We ask you to pay attention to the menacing environmental catastrophe that is already on our threshold. By this we mean the permit to develop shale gas in the territory of Ukraine. Shale gas is natural gas located mostly in soft shale rock with wide branching of fissures. Gas…

On January 22, 2013 Lviv Appellate Economic Court denied an appeal of a private company and upheld the decision of the lower court of August 31, 2012 granting Environment-People-Law access to company’s documents containing environmental information. For almost two years EPL fought for court interpretation and application of a new progressive provision of the Law…

In January 2013, international public interest environmental law organization Environment-People-Law became a member of the Academy of Environmental Law of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The organization is IUCN member and in 2003 it was recognized the IUCN legal excellency center.  Members of the Academy are leading universities and research law institutions worldwide….

On 11 July 2009, EPL together with its friends celebrated its 15th anniversary in Slavsko. In the picturesque Carpathians EPL employees remembered the history of the organization founding and its first steps and also planned strategic directions of further EPL’s activity.