Pravni center za varstvo človekovih pravic in okolja
Budget
€600,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
16
15 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
PIC provides professional legal support to individuals, vulnerable groups and non-governmental organization in exercising and protecting their rights and strengthening their position in the society. Activities: legal assistance, advocacy, informing, training, encouraging civil dialogue national and international projects, involvement in policy-making and decision-making processes. PIC is participating in decision-making processes, working bodies, committees, networks and forums, in order to advance the position of non-governmental organizations in Slovenia and increase their influence on decision-making. We endeavor towards strengthening the integrity in the non-governmental sector and advocate transparent and responsible activity on all levels of the social system. We are encouraging socially responsible and active citizenship.
EU Legislative Interests
We currently follow: - environmental area, specially policies regarding environmental assessments (SEA, EIA, WFD, Habitat directive), access to justice, climate - asylum policies - protection of human rights for volunarable groups and prevention of discrimination
Communication Activities
We are working on different projects on areas: - advocacy for volunerable groups (disabled people, women victims of violance, children, asylum seekers); - advocacy and legal support for NGOs on the area of environment protection and spatial planning; Our work includes legal analysis, counceling, preparing legal remedies, following the legislation, commenting and proposals for changes.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We are member in following organisations: Justice & Environment http://www.justiceandenvironment.org/home/ European Environmental Bureau https://eeb.org/ CNVOS https://www.cnvos.si/ SLOGA, slovenian global action http://www.sloga-platform.org/ European Council on Refugees and Exiles https://www.ecre.org/ EUROCHILD https://www.eurochild.org/ International Detention Coalition https://idcoalition.org/
Organisation Members
We are not member organisation because we are institute. We have 5 founders: Mirovni inštitut http://www.mirovni-institut.si/ Amnesty international Slovenia http://www.amnesty.si/ REC Regionalni center za okolje http://slovenia.rec.org/ Alcedo, Zavod za kulturni in trajsnotni razvoj Društvo za razvijanje prostovoljnega in preventivnega dela
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.