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The 2022 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting was held in Vienna and online on 19 and 20 October 2022. The meeting focused on the role of Aarhus Centres in strengthening peace and security, their new…
This week nearly 450 participants from close to 50 countries attended the seventh and fourth sessions of the Meetings of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention (Convention on Access to Information,…
Publisher: UNECE
The 2021 Aarhus Centres Annual Meeting was held in Vienna and online on 23 and 24 September 2021. The meeting focused on good environmental governance, the role of Aarhus Centres in times of disaster…
Publisher: OSCE
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on States to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human…
Publisher: OHCHR
A two-day seminar dedicated to fostering the role of the Ombudsperson, Media and Youth in promoting Aarhus Convention principles took place in an online format on 24 and 25 June 2021.
Publisher: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
The press release provides insights to the recent meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information (see http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=53318) that took place in a virtual format on 16-17…
Publisher: MADRM Republic of Moldova
The blog article by the UNECE Executive Secretary Ms. Olga Algayerova addresses a potential impact of the Governments' response to the COVID-19 pandemic on procedural rights of public access to…
Publisher: UNECE
The grid development projects by 50Hertz move on as scheduled, however, early public participation needs alternative formats as face-to-face dialogue is restricted due to COVID-19. For two projects,…
Publisher: 50Herz/RGI Newsletter April 2020 (30 April 2020)
A special Earth Day Op-Ed by Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and Michael Taylor, the Director of the International Land Coalition Secretariat…
Publisher: Toward Freedom
Addressing the High Level Conference “Environmental Protection and Human Rights”, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe called on member states to support the recognition of the…
Publisher: Council of Europe
