The launch of the “Administrative Structuring of the Environmental Justice Sector in Jordan” project, implemented by the National Center for Environmental Justice in partnership with the French Embassy
The launch of the “Administrative Structuring of the Environmental Justice Sector in Jordan” project, implemented by the National Center for Environmental Justice in partnership with the French Embassy, which aims to strengthen and develop the restructuring of the environmental justice sector and enhance public participation and access to justice in environmental issues by enabling, strengthening and developing the capabilities of the most involved groups in The environmental justice sector with these laws, whether by judges, prosecutors and lawyers, in its opening session, which was held prior to the first workshop, with the participation of the French Embassy, and a selection of lawyers who applied to participate, and the most compatible with the project criteria were selected.
Dr. Mohammad Eyadat, head of the National Center for Environmental Justice, expressed the importance of this project and its ability to leave an impact, and added that “the concept of environmental justice is still ineffective at the applied level for many reasons, the most important of which is the lack of awareness among workers in the justice sector of the importance and nature of environmental crimes and environmental lawsuits.” and litigation procedures, and the large number and complexity of laws regulating the protection of the environment in Jordan weakens the judicial ruling whose legal basis is based on a clear law, in addition to the immaturity of the concept of environmental pleading among lawyers, and other reasons.”
He also stressed, “It has become necessary to strengthen and develop the structure of the environmental justice sector and to enhance public participation and access to justice in environmental issues by enabling, strengthening and developing the capabilities of the groups most involved in the environmental justice sector with these laws, whether by judges, prosecutors and lawyers, by adopting Interactive programs and enabling activities to enhance the concept of access to environmental justice among all concerned parties within the concept of administrative structuring of the environmental sector in Jordan, civil, criminal and administrative.
For her part, Ms. Emilie Desormiere, French Attaché for Judicial and Legal Cooperation in the Middle East, said, “We at the French Embassy are aware of the importance of this project and the value of cooperation with the National Center for Environmental Justice because of our belief in the concept of environmental justice, which took a long time to become a fundamental right and at the forefront of events.”
She added that we aim to create a real community that believes in the importance of raising the level of the system in general, and is able to communicate this thought and spread it among those interested.
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