Women, business and the law 2024
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th in a series of annual studies measuring the enabling conditions that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. To present a more complete picture
Bush hurries to give industry a parting gift: licence to pollute By the time Barack Obama takes charge as US president on January 20, his predecessor George W Bush would have weakened a number of environmental rules. Bush is known for his anti-environment policies, and his team is working overtime to unbound industry of environmental regulations. According to The Washington Post, 90 new rules
Relaxed rules for air pollution from factory farms finalized on December 12 Rules taking away protections for endangered and threatened species finalized on December 11 Rules for mountain-top mining to become final on January 12 Decision on removing gray wolf from the threatened list in January Easing restrictions on oil shale drilling finalized on November 17 Rules allowing
food safety China lists illegal additives China has come out with its first official compilation of 17 illegal food additives used in the country. The banned substances include boric acid, commonly used as an insecticide but also mixed with noodles and meatballs to increase elasticity, and industrial formaldehyde, used in making soap and drains cleaner but also used as a common
The UPFA led Council was successful in carring out a smooth council during the past five years, even though the two opposition parties have a majority if they work together, said Western Province Chief Minister Reginald Cooray. The support given by the opposition parties in this regard should be greatly appreciated, the Chief Minister added.
Perhaps, if, instead of implementing a new generation of Rowlatt Acts, the government had tried providing education, public health, jobs, development and fair play to all the different poor minority communities over which it exercises power, there might have been little violence to tackle, and those communities participating democratically might have fully cooperated with the law and order machine
The French National Assembly adopted the Charter for the Environment in 2004 and integrated it into the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic by the amendment of March 1, 2005.
The opium trade yielded enormous profits to the British imperialists during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
A legislation that has deterred people from planting trees In May this year, this magazine ran a story about a person in Orissa who was hard put to cut down trees in his patch of land. He faced bureaucratic hurdles galore. There are many like him in the country. A lot of their problems can be blamed on tree preservation acts in various states of the country. The origins of these
Lawmakers in the Indonesian province of Papua are debating a bill which proposes to implant microchips in hiv positive people. The legislation proposes tracking the movements of hiv-positive people who behave in what some MPs describe as
Mining industry has contributed immensely to the economic development of the State but in its wake has also caused environmental degradation. Since humans have to live within their environment, the process of development should be sustainable so that environmental quality is maintained within safe limits.