News from BlueLink

BlueLink co-signed an open letter following up on the Pegasus investigation findings by Forbidden Stories and partners such as Amnesty International (https://forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-project-articles/).

Actions towards raising awareness and creating a sustainable cultural and tourism strategy leading to social and economic benefits for the region and collecting ideas related to the diverse movable and immovable cultural heritage along the Danube River brought together experts from six Danube region countries.

The DANUrB Quality Label stands for and uses the rich cultural heritage, economic and social development, and strong community along the Danube River. This became evident at the DANUrB+ partner meeting, which took place for two days on May 20-21, 2021.

The Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, an umbrella organization BlueLink is a member of, demands that the authorities of the Russian Federation immediately cease their politically motivated attack on the Alexey Navalny's organisations and allow the politician to be visited by doctors of his choice in prison.

The DANUrB Platform has been reactivated and is ready to enrich its content with good new practices of cultural and historical heritage in the Danube regions. This became  evident  at  the  3rd partner meeting, which took place on February 26, 2021.

Tobacco corporations are incompatible with adherence to any human rights-based structure, wrote the Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to Emilio Rafael Izquierdo Miño - the Chair-Rapporteur, of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG).

The lasting improvement of transparency and civic monitoring over established practices and policies for spending public funds opens new opportunities for interaction between the municipal administrations with the civil society and the business in Blagoevgrad district.

EKOenergy – an international not-for-profit ecolabel – is launching a call for renewable energy projects in developing countries.

In order to bring additionality to renewable energy purchases and help realise SDG 7 (affordable, clean energy for all), the EKOenergy ecolabel raises funds for new renewable energy projects in developing countries and regions.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) would like to hear civil society  experiences regarding the challenges that they faced in their day-to-day work during 2020 (“civic space”). The invitation is part of a EU-wide online consultation for civil society organisations.