Practice your environmental rights – legal tools and mechanisms

The legal toolkit provides guidance for national and international CSOs and activists on how to use their environmental rights with a special focus on the protection of rivers from destructive hydropower developments. It explains how to practice existing environmental rights in the decision-making processes on national and international level. It hereby refers to the Aarhus Convention, the Bern Convention and the environmental and social policies of international financial institutions which provide financial assistance for hydropower projects. The toolkit also contains a collection of case studies derived from the direct experiences in the protection of the Mavrovo National Park as well as a selection of events and actions that can be used as supplements to legal procedures in order to gather support, keep the public informed and put pressure on decision makers.

Legal Toolkit: Practice your environmental rights – legal tools and mechanisms (ENGLISH)

Legal Toolkit: Practice your environmental rights – legal tools and mechanisms (MACEDONIAN)