The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is dedicated to creating, implementing and building solutions by training local people and communities to investigate, expose and combat environmental…
The BE SAFE Precautionary Policy Clearinghouse includes precautionary-based laws, policies, local ordinances and industry agreements on a range of issues, including: environmental precaution,…
This Toolkit, a database filled with experiences of participation in local decision-making, aims to contribute towards the development of a positive attitude of local authorities vis-à-vis citizen…
The recommendations and conclusions as adopted during the final plenary session of the on Governance, Civil Society Participation and Strengthening Partnerships for Chemicals and Waste Management and…
This official press release announces the adoption of an “event based approval system” by India’s Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC). This will replace the case by case approval process…
In this book, children's participation rights are reflected on by a Belgian interdisciplinary research network on childrens rights. The first part of the book contains an extensive legal…
This article assesses the growing influence of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) on the application of new Environmental Impact Assessment regulations which came into effect in South Africa on 1…
This Comment is intended by its authors to assist decision-makers and the working group on the Draft Law on Transparency in the Decision Making Process (Draft Law). The authors consider the Draft Law…
A major premise of this article is that the Aarhus Convention enjoys a special status with respect to societies that lived under scientific socialist regimes. It gives a brief historical exposition…
For UNDP, the right to information is a key underpinning for work in democratic governance and is vitalfor promoting ‘open governance’ and the accountability of public decision makers as well as…
