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Greening Justice: Creating and Improving Environmental Courts and Tribunals
Specialized environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) are making major contributions to access to justice, environmental governance, and protection of the environment around the world. Their growth is spectacular – hundreds have been developed in dozens of countries in recent years.
Improve A2I in Thailand by amending the Official Information Act 1997
The Official Information Act 1997 is a core piece of Thailand’s legislation that explicitly prescribes the rights to access official information, however, the criteria used by the state agencies for cataloguing information in term of those allowed to disclosed and not allowed is still unclear. There are many types of environmental information handled by many state agencies. Some are dissiminated widely among the general public such as annual reports on the pollution situation published by the Department of Pollution Control.
Minister issues Directions on Access to Information
The Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Hon. Dinesh Gunewardene officially issued the Directions on Information Disclosure in the Urban Sector on 15th September 2009. The directions were directly based on the recommendations of the TAI Sri Lanka study. This is the first time that such directions are issued on information disclosure.
PRESS RELEASE-Zimbabwe Constitutional Thematic Committee Ignores Environmental Issues
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) noted with great concern a number of initial missteps by the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee (COPAC) and the Thematic Committee on Land, Natural Resources and Empowerment in their quest to prepare questions and discussion points for the constitutional reform public consultation and outreach programme. The first meetings of the Thematic Committee on Land, Natural Resources and Empowerment were held on the 11th -13th of January 2010. ZELA’s concerns are twofold; the first is the unbalanced composition of the thematic committee.
