This review of the third conference of Living Knowledge: The International Science Shop Network, held in Paris, in September 2007, finds practioners of community-based research (CBR) engaging the…
This brief report covers the strategy meeting held by environmental citizens organizations preparing for the third meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention.(Original source: http://www.wecf.de…
An NGO reports that environmental citizens organizations succeeded in adopting a common Declaration, "Use Aarhus Convention to Promote Real Democracy in Europe!- European Ecoforum Vienna…
The Greek Ombudsman is a constitutionally sanctioned Independent Authority. The purpose of the Greek Ombudsman is to mediate s between public administration and private individuals, for the purpose…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has prepared this review in order to highlight and systematize the case law of the inter-American system of human rights on four core issues that it has…
The United Nations Geographical Information Working Group (UNGIWG) is a network of professionals working in the fields of cartography and geographic information science to building the UN Spatial…
What are the most democratic countries in Europe? How would we find out? To answer these questions, Demos has developed the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). Using data for 25 European countries, EDI…
This document reports on the project “The Futures of the EBRD Region 2025” conducted by Outsights with the EBRD in 2006-2007. The project was designed to stimulate new thinking on the region, to…
The “European Convention on Access to Official Documents” being drafted by the Council of Europe fails to reflect prevailing European standards according to leading NGOs including Access Info Europe…
FERN is pleased to announce the publication of its new report: Accessing environmental information in and from the European Community. A practical guide to your right to know. This new report…
