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
It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found, yet the US paranoia over bioterrorism attacks has not waned. In fact, two new regulations to prevent such a
Even as the government of Angola, mulls over a second draft of a legislation on land rights, aid and humanitarian organisations point out it could become a source of major future conflict. Tensions over land ownership are on the rise, as millions of Angol
The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector the Union ministry of environment and forests. It has moved more than 15 proposals before the standing committee of the National Wildlife Board to den
October 21, 2003. High level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare breasted Amazonian men and women at the start of what the media calls The Trial of the Century. In the ramshackle Amazonian town of Lago Agr
At long last a positive note has been struck to end the Union government s ambiguity towards non governmental organisations NGOs . The Planning Commission has circulated a draft of a clear cut policy on the voluntary sector, the lack of which has irked t
On November 26, 2003 Armenia ratified the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent PIC Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. It was the 50th country to do so, thus enabling the treaty to come into for
On December 3, US President George W Bush gave the green light to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, declaring that it would help to prevent catastrophic wildfires . But the legislation, requiring US $760 million to be spent annually, is described by en
There is never any end to learning. And so, surprises. We have learnt, over 20 years, that environmental governance in India is lackadaisical. Still, the extent of irresponsibility never fails to surprise...
The international clinical trial business could come to India in a big way. The most advanced drugs might be available to Indians as soon as the research is finalised. A lot of Indians could get free treatment, also contributing to the development of new
Land is central to the tribal identity in the region too easily abbreviated northeast . Jeuti baruah knows this too well. As director of the Law research Centre, Guwahati, she is constantly discovering how friable these identities are in the face of cons