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
Increasing incidence of lawlessness shows hand of corruption
With an aim to root out corruption, Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi has banned allocation of public land to individuals. Environmental groups have welcomed the ban but expressed scepticism about its
Controversy over use of animals for medical experiments hots up
taking a cue from Sweden and Germany, Belgium is going ahead with its plan to phase out the country's nuclear reactors by 2025. Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt recently said that his
despite preventive measures, mad cow disease may enter the US. This has been recently reported in a study conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress. The
the European Commission has given its go-ahead to imposing restrictions by 2003 on the public use of 43 chemicals which could cause cancer, damage reproduction or pose a danger to human genes.
soon motorists in Britain will be charged a congestion tax. The proposed tax aims to declog traffic and depollute the streets of London. Mayor Ken Livingstone said a daily charge of us $7
Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe
A mobile court fined nine filling stations of Tangail and Kalihati in Bangladesh for selling adulterated petrol, diesel, octane and mobil oil to transport owners and giving them less quantity of
Trade controls will be imposed on potentially dangerous pesticides and asbestos under a treaty aiming to protect workers in poor countries from hazardous exports. This was stated by the United