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The Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), a non-governmental organization of lawyers was set up in 1993 with the objective to promote environmental justice and create a basis for sound environmental jurisprudence.
Since its inception, the organization has adopted various means to create awareness amongst major actors and the common people to activate the great bulk of environmental legislation. BELA has always emphasized on and advocated for wider participation in law making and policy planning to bring in changes in the isolated trend of law and policy framing. The efforts of BELA through public interest litigation have truly sensitized the concept of ¡¥environmental justice' in the country that now has special courts to deal with environmental offences.

Institutionalizing environmental justice & promote sound environmental administration, management & service delivery (through public interest environmental litigation,advocacy, training & development of a network of relevant actors to mobilise for change)

Supportive judicial decisions on environmental issue Network members are protesting the incidence of anti environmental activities A platform with environmantal activitist in operation to raise public voice No of public interest litigation to address anti environment activities.