The Stockholm Convention contaminated sites guidelines should advance steps toward a healthier planet by identifying POPs 1 contaminated sites, minimizing exposure risks, and...
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In the Western Balkans, the repressive trend against civil society organisations set by Georgia and before that by Russia is continuing. Lawmakers in Republika Srpska, one of...
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An open letter from the GAIA platform, co-signed by Arnika, to UN Under-Secretary-General Anacláudia Rossbach: Many environmental organisations oppose the unscientific promotion...
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Arnika is a Czech non-profit organization that is focused on uniting people to create a cleaner and healthier environment.
Since 2001, our mission is to protect nature and foster a healthy environment for future generations to enjoy. Our activities rely on three main components, public involvement in the decision-making process, expert opinions and justified requests, and media coverage of the problems. In the long-term, we are striving to reduce waste, limit the use of hazardous substances, preserve healthy rivers and forests, along with allowing citizens to have more involvement in the protection of the environment.
The work at Arnika brings concrete results that benefit us all and we are continuously striving to keep it that way. However, this success would not be possible without the hard work of volunteers and sponsors.
IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network) is a global network that strives for a healthier world in which people and the environment are no longer harmed by the production, use, or disposal of toxic chemicals. We contribute to this goal mainly through our activities under the Toxic Substances and Wastes programme, which include worldwide sampling and the implementation of analyses and research that map toxic pollution, and efforts to strengthen national and global policies in the field of chemicals and waste.
FoRS (Czech Forum for Development Cooperation) is a platform of Czech non-profit entities that deal with development cooperation, development education, and humanitarian aid. Together with other organizations in FoRS, we share a common interest in promoting greater relevance and effectiveness of Czech and international foreign development cooperation and increasing its positive effects for the inhabitants of developing and transforming countries. As part of our work, we help protect the environment not only in the Czech Republic, but also in countries such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Bosnia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, or Thailand.
EEB (European Environmental Bureau) is the largest network of environmental civil organizations across Europe. At the European level, EEB deals with topics such as climate change, biodiversity, the circular economy, sustainable development, air, water, and soil pollution, or chemical pollution. In cooperation with other EEB members, we strive to promote progressive policies aimed at the protection and prosperity of the environment in the European Union and beyond.
European ECO Forum is a coalition of non-governmental organizations promoting the principles of environmental democracy in the UNECE region (Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union). Together with the Forum, Arnika participates in meetings of the states of the Aarhus Convention, monitors events in individual countries, draws attention to violations of the law, and supports local civil society. In 2022, for example, we managed together to secure the creation of a Rapid Response Mechanism to protect environmental activists from persecution.
ERN (European Rivers Network) is a non-governmental organization dealing with the protection and sustainable management of water and rivers. Through its activities such as information campaigns and educational programmes, the network contributes to the protection of rivers and their ecosystems throughout Europe. Arnika has been dedicated to the protection of rivers and their ecosystems for a long time, currently, for example, as part of the campaigns For a Living Elbe, Stop the Danube-Odra-Elbe Canal, and Rivers Without Poisons or as part of our work abroad to protect Bosnian and Moldovan rivers.
International Rivers is an international network working for the global protection of rivers. In this way, they try to act against their fragmentation and pollution, and they try to support communities that depend on free-flowing rivers. Arnika supports the protection of rivers within the framework of Czech campaigns (For a Living Elbe, Stop the Danube-Odra-Elbe Canal, and Rivers without Poisons), as well as persistent and long-term work abroad, for example on the protection of rivers in Bosnia and Moldova.
Zelený kruh (The Green Circle) is an association of Czech environmental non-governmental organizations and is dedicated to monitoring laws and policies. It coordinates legislative campaigns and provides support in advocacy activities focused on environmental protection and civil rights. As part of the Green Circle, we coordinate our work in the area of public participation in decision making or construction and waste legislation. We also have a representative on the Green Circle Council.
KliK - Czech climate coalition is a platform for Czech non-governmental non-profit organizations that deal with the climate and environmental protection. We cooperate within it with other organizations that work on mitigating the climate crisis and adapting to its effects, social aspects of the climate crisis, development cooperation, and humanitarian aid.
In order to ensure a better and healthier future for as many people as possible, we share our know-how and protect the environment and environmental rights regardless of geographical location.
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