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Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean

22/04/2021 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Certification Cities Environmental education Energy Environmental assessment Gender

Adopted at Escazú, Costa Rica, on 4 March 2018, the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean has as its objective to guarantee the full and effective implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean...

Environmental Framework Act (No. 97 of 2020)

07/05/2020 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Indigenous peoples Suriname
The Environmental Framework Act contains rules for sustainable environmental management in Suriname. It aims to develop a national environmental strategy and planning for sustainable development under a coordinated approach.

Environmental Protection and Management Act (No. 10 of 2019)

06/06/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Environmental education Gender Indigenous peoples Pollutant Release Register Antigua and Barbuda

This act seeks to ensure that decisions pertaining to the environment are made in an integrated manner, in collaboration with appropriate authorities, non-governmental organizations and other persons, provides for preventive and remedial measures for the control and mitigation of all forms of...

Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040

01/05/2019 Rights: Information Participation Justice Topics: Biodiversity Climate Change Certification Environmental education Energy Gender Mining Indigenous peoples Guyana

The Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040 is Guyana’s twenty-year, national development policy that reflects the guiding vision and principles of the ‘green agenda’: “An inclusive and prosperous Guyana that provides a good quality of life for all its citizens based on sound education and...

Loi sur l'assistance légale (Loi No. 6-2018)

26/10/2018 Rights: Justice Topics: Gender Haiti
The law establishes a public administrative body (National Legal Aid Council) to provide economically and financially disadvantaged persons with free legal aid in Haiti. Such aid is applicable to all areas of law.

Freedom of Information Act (No. 6 of 2018)

23/05/2018 Rights: Information Participation Justice Saint Kitts & Nevis

The Freedom of Information Act makes provisions for the disclosure of information held by public bodies or by persons providing services for them for connected purposes in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

05/03/2018 Rights: Justice Topics: Biodiversity Indigenous peoples

The Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010.

Director of Physical Planning v Anne Hendricks Bass

15/06/2017 Rights: Information Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Saint Kitts & Nevis

In an appeal against the judgement of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, High Court of Justice (Civil), Anne Hendricks Bass v.

Freedom of Information Act (No. 1 of 2017)

31/03/2017 Rights: Information Justice Bahamas

The Freedom of Information Act aims to reinforce and give further effect to certain fundamental principles underlying the system of constitutional democracy such as governmental accountability, transparency and public participation in national decision-making, by granting the public a general...

Anne Hendricks Bass v. Director of Physical Planning

25/01/2017 Rights: Information Justice Topics: Environmental assessment Saint Kitts & Nevis

In January and February of 2016 the claimant attempted to gain access to information relating to a resort development on Nevis including the copies of a site plan, a drainage plan and an Environmental Impact Assessment.

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