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National defense - China's National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) approved the National Defense Mobilization Law on February 26, 2010; it was promulgated by President Hu Jintao and will become effective on July 1. (Li Yun andamp; Yang Lei,...
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AIDS - On March 9, 2010, Asia Catalyst, "a resource for grassroots groups working for economic and social rights in Asia," announced the launch of its free Asia AIDS Law Database, in a "public beta" version searchable in...
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Peace - On March 5, 2010, it was reported that the first public hearings of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission would take place beginning March 9, 2010. (First TRC Public Hearing Next Week, SOLOMON TIMES, Mar....
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Judges - The European Union, under the Financing Agreement No. 9356/UNI "EU Support to Law Enforcement against Economic and Financial Crimes," has granted Nigeria's judiciary N5.2 billion (about US$34 million) to help combat economic and financial crime and...
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Criminal law and procedure - On January 19, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a criminal defendant's right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to the jury selection process....
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Communications and electronic information - On January 13, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States enjoined a federal district court order that would have permitted the broadcast of a trial via streaming audio and video to several federal courthouses around...
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Education - The Government of India recently announced that it will issue rules to implement the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009, by mid-2010. The Constitution of India was amended in...
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Constitutional law - The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has ruled that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh, which legitimized the governments that were in power from the time of the August 15, 1975, coup through April 9,...
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Intellectual property - On February 11, 2010, the Supreme Court of Iceland upheld an injunction imposed in November 2007 against Istorrent (www.torrent.is), the country#thersson, and ordered Istorrent to pay...
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Immigration - On February 26, 2010, the State Duma (legislature) of the Russian Federation approved on a first reading and accepted for further consideration amendments to the nation's legislation on migration that were proposed by the Cabinet of...
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Terrorism - On March 4, 2010, following an appeal by 32 Members of the National Assembly, the Constitutional Council of Mauritania rejected the country's new law on terrorism, calling a number of the articles unconstitutional. The law, which...
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Criminal law and procedure - On February 22, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed an amendment to the Penal Law that prohibits bribery of public officials of foreign countries and of international and political entities, including the Palestinian Authority. According to...
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Natural resources - On February 16, 2010, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed an amendment to the Water Law 5719-1959. The amendment requires every public body to install accessories for the purpose of saving water in any building it owns...
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Intellectual property - On February 26, 2010, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) amended the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China (PRC), to take effect on April 1, 2010. (Decision of the NPC Standing...
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Environment - On February 9, 2010, the Government of Ireland issued a statement to confirm that it is proceeding with the waste management strategy contained in the 2007 Programme for Government and the 2009 Renewed Program for Government....
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Constitutional law - On March 1, 2010, it was reported that two-thirds of the voters in Nauru had voted against proposed changes to the island nation's constitution in a referendum that was held on February 27, 2010. (Nauruans Vote...
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Taxation - Both direct and indirect tax regimes will be amended under the 2010/2011 budget presented by the Indian government on February 26, 2010. The direct tax amendments will become effective when ratified by the Parliament. While the...
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Treatment of animals - On February 22, 2010, new regulations went into effect in Rome, Italy, to better protect horses that pull tourist buggies. The new rules ban grueling uphill climbs, limit the animals' work day to an eight-hour maximum...
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Government finance - On January 11, 2010, China's State Council published the draft Implementation Regulations of the Government Procurement Law (Draft Regulations) on its website, in order to solicit public opinion on its provisions. The 116-article regulations will clarify...
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Adoption - The International Adoption Working Group (IAWG), an ad hoc organization comprising diplomatic mission representatives of countries that have or are considering having adoption agencies (private or state-run) in Nepal, recently called upon the Nepali government to...
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Government organization - Catharine Ashton, who is the newly appointed European Union High Representative for Foreign Security and Policy, is reportedly working on restructuring the EU's External Action Service (EAS). EAS is a diplomatic corps with 130 delegations in...
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Health and safety - Taiwan's President promulgated the Statute on Human Biological Database Management on February 3, 2010. (Statute for Human Body Biological Database Management, THE GAZETTE OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 34-44 (Feb. 3, 2010),
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Legislative power - It was reported on February 22, 2010, that Vietnam's Ministry of Justice has placed on its website a revised draft of the Capital Law. Provisions that would have given Hanoi municipal officials the right to issue...
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Taxation - Albania's tax procedures have been amended by a law that became effective on February 5, 2010. Law No. 10209 amends tax reporting, violation, and penalty provisions of the Law on Tax Procedures. There will no longer...
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Customs - Under the association agreement signed by the European Union and Israel, products made in Israel and imported into the European Union qualify for preferential treatment. In 2009, Israeli exports to the EU amounted to 8.8 billion...
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Women - Under a 1992 European Union directive, pregnant women are entitled to a minimum of 14 weeks of paid maternity leave, and employers are required to pay them at no less than the rate for sick leave....
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Human rights - On February 23, 2010, in Ahmet Arslan and Others v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that Turkey had violated article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience, and religion) of the European Convention on...
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Criminal law and procedure - On February 11, 2010, Israel's Supreme Court, in an extended bench of nine justices, repealed a statutory provision that had authorized a court to permit a hearing on the extension of detention of a security suspect...
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Natural resources - On February 12, 2010, the East African Community (EAC) passed the Tourism and Wildlife Management Bill, which seeks to establish a cooperative framework for management of tourism and wildlife resources in the region, in accordance with...
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Natural resources - On February 12, 2010, the East African Community (EAC) passed the Tourism and Wildlife Management Bill, which seeks to establish a cooperative framework for management of tourism and wildlife resources in the region, in accordance with...
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Taxation - On February 19, 2010, Singapore's Inland Revenue Authority issued a tax guide in electronic form on the imposition of a stamp duty on the seller of certain residential properties. The duty is to be paid only...
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Courts - On February 23, 2010, Nepal's Supreme Court made public a judgment that mandates the establishment by government authorities of a system of fast-track courts for cases involving women and children. To that end, those authorities...
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Right of privacy - It was reported on February 18, 2010, that a Dutch court may soon hear the appeal of Aaron Boudewijn, a law student at the University of Utrecht, against a municipal government decision to deny him a...
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Taxation - The 2010 budget for the Ivory Coast includes a number of tax provisions. Newly incorporated companies will be given tax incentives, as will companies that resume functions or maintained operations in parts of the country affected...
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Criminal law and procedure - The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the largest member of the country's ruling coalition since the fall of 2009, had submitted a bill to the Diet (parliament) in early 2009 that would have obligated the police...
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International law - Uganda recently became the first nation to ratify the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (the Kampala Convention). The agreement was signed in Kampala, Uganda, on Oct. 22, 2009. (African...
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Terrorism - It was reported on February 2, 2010, that the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam, has ordered the retrial of alleged terrorist plotters, the Hofstad Group, whose members have been connected with the murderer...
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Criminal law and procedure - On January 27, 2010, amendments to the Criminal Law were published in Taiwan's official gazette. The key amendment, a new article 294-1, sets forth circumstances exempting from criminal punishment someone who under the Civil Code has...
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Environment - Victims of toxic waste poisoning in the Ivory Coast have reached an agreement with the Dutch company Trafigura; the deal concerns distribution of approximately US$45 million in compensation to 31,000 victims. A court order issued in...
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Mining and mineral resources - It was reported on February 18, 2010, that the 2008 Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty Act of South Africa, is to take effect on March 1 of this year. (Bheki Mpofu, Mining Royalties Law Takes Effect...
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Weapons - According to a February 16, 2010, United Nations press release, the Convention on Cluster Munitions will enter into force in August 2010. The 29th and 30th nations, Burkina Faso and Moldova, have submitted their instruments of...
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Taxation - On January 26, 2010, China's State Administration of Taxation [SAT] issued a circular to clarify the implementation of tax treaty provisions on royalties in connection with technology transfer. It amplifies an earlier circular on royalty provisions...
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Lawyers - The legal profession has grown in China in the last few years. According to Ministry of Justice statistics for 2009, there were more than 15,000 law firms, 166,000 lawyers, and 220,000 individuals working in the field....
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International law - The Treaty of Maipu for Integration and Cooperation, designed to revive and update the Peace and Friendship Treaty signed between Argentina and Chile in 1984 but never fully implemented, was signed by representatives of the two...
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Taxation - Publication of Comments on Model Tax Convention Commentary and Proposed New Article 7 In late November and early December 2009, the Committee on Fiscal Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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Criminal law and procedure - It was reported on February 16, 2010, that the Nigerian Senate is considering a bill, An Act to Provide for the Imposition of Special Punishment on Persons Found Guilty of Economic Sabotage and Other Matters Connected...
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Elections - On February 16, 2010, the New Zealand government announced plans to introduce new legislation to amend the rules relating to campaign finance and spending on election advertising. (Press Release, Hon. Simon Power, Electoral Finance Reform Package...
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Gender equality - The French Ministry of Health has issued a decree that removes gender identity disorder, also referred to as transsexualism, from the list of officially recognized mental illnesses. The Decree 2010-125, of February 8, 2010, was published...
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Taxation - The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago has created a new property tax to replace what were commonly referred to as the "house rates" that had been collected under the authority of the Municipal Corporations Act (Trin....
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Environment - Chile has enacted a new law that creates the Ministry of the Environment, the Environmental Evaluation Service, and the Superintendency for the Environment. It also contains other, less substantive amendments. (Ley 20417, amending Law 19,300 of...
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Women - On January 26, 2010, the President of the National Assembly published on the Assembly website the report prepared by the Parliamentary Commission to Study the Wearing of the Full Veil in France. (Assemblee Nationale, Rapport d'information...
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International law - It was reported on February 3, 2010, that the African Union (AU) is seeking to amend the Rome Statute of 1998, which currently reserves the power to suspend investigation or prosecution by the International Criminal Court...
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Intellectual property - On February 4, 2010, in what is being called a "landmark judgment" that has possible international ramifications, the Federal Court of Australia ruled against a number of major Hollywood film studios in finding that an Internet...
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Taxation - Mauritania's Finance Law for 2010, which was adopted on December 23, 2009, came into effect on January 1, 2010. It includes provisions on direct taxation, indirect taxation, and tax management.(Felix Buma, Mauritania: Finance Law for 2010...
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Taxation - On January 28 and 29, 2010, Burkina Faso's Parliament adopted new legislation to reform the tax system in the country. The changes include introducing a corporate income tax instead of the existing schedule of taxes on...
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Police - On February 3, 2010, legislation to amend the Public Order and Security Act [POSA] of 2001 was introduced in the Zimbabwean House of Assembly as a private member's bill. (New Bill Seeks to Limit Police Powers,...
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Taxation - The tax administration of Luxembourg issued a circular on January 12, 2010, on taxation of Islamic finance instruments. (Circular L.G.A. No. 55, cited in Rene Offermanns, Luxembourg: Guidelines on Islamic Finance Published, IBFD TAX NEWS SERVICE,...
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Terrorism - On January 29, 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a decision in the case of a Canadian citizen being held by U.S. authorities in Guantanamo Bay. The Court ruled unanimously that the detainee, Omar Khadr,...
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Securities markets - On January 28, 2010, the Australian federal government announced plans to increase the maximum penalties that can be imposed for market misconduct. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will also have greater powers to investigate...
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Constitutional law - On January 28, 2010, Nepal's legislature passed the seventh amendment to the country's interim constitution. The amendment, which passed with a two-thirds majority, will permit the president, vice president, prime minister, and other high-ranking officials to...
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Elections - On January 12, 2010, the Supreme Court of the Philippines issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to stop the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) from barring Ang Ladlad a political group representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
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Banks and financial institutions - On January 21, 2010, the Swiss Administrative Court rescinded a decision of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration that would have released Swiss banking records to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, docket number A-7789/2009, Jan....
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Child pornography - "Japan is one of the world's biggest suppliers of child pornography and the second biggest consumer after the U.S." (Justin McCurry, Japan to Outlaw Possession of Child Porn, GUARDIAN, Mar. 10, 2008, available at
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Narcotics and drug abuse - On December 31, 2009, the Government of the Russian Federation issued two regulations which extend the list of narcotic and psychotropic substances and establish a new procedure for their storage and preservation. (Regulations of the Russian...
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Constitutional law - On December 14, 2009, Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner issued an emergency Decree (Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia [Emergency Decree or DNU] 2010/2009, BOLETIN OFICIAL (B.O.), Dec. 15, 2009, available at
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Immigration - In January 2010, Denmark's Supreme Court issued a decision in an immigration case that retains a controversial rule. Since 2002, immigrants to Denmark that become naturalized citizens must have lived in the country for 28 years...
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Government organization - On November 23, 2009, an Executive Order (EO) "Creating the Church-Police-Military-Liaison Committee [CPMLC] to Formulate and Implement a Comprehensive Program to Establish Strong Partnership Between the State and the Church on Matters Concerning Peace and Order...
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Human rights - On December 17, 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that registration in the French national sex offender database did not violate article 7, andsect;1 (no criminal penalty without a law) and article 8...
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Criminal law and procedure - Denmark's parliament began hearings on January 12, 2010, on a bill that would lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14. At present, it appears that the government has a majority likely to vote for the...
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International law - The Bangladesh Secretary on Home Affairs and the Commerce Secretary of India have signed three treaties, on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, exchanging prisoners, and combating international terrorism. These treaties are expected to be ratified...
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Death and dying - The Montana Supreme Court has held that Montana law allows a physician to aid the suicide of terminally ill patient. With this decision, Montana joins Oregon and Washington as states that allow the physician-assisted suicide of...
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Criminal law and procedure - The Ohio Supreme Court has held that the warrantless police search of a cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Ohio municipal police convinced a woman to call appellant Antwaun Smith...
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Terrorism - The United Kingdom's rocky road with its anti-terrorism legislation has continued with the High Court ruling that in the case of two individuals subject to "control orders" orders that impose conditions similar to house arrest...
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Government ethics - According to a statement by Dilan Perera, a Member of the Sri Lankan parliament and the Justice Minister, the country's President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is planning to propose a new Act to counter waste, corruption, and other...
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Terrorism - A member of the British National Party, a far right political party, has been jailed for 11 years after pleading guilty to 22 offenses, including collecting information useful for terrorism and possessing explosives and firearms....
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Taxation - As of the first of this year, Belgian companies and the permanent establishments in Belgium of foreign companies are required to include on their tax returns information about certain payments to tax havens. The reporting threshold...
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Freedom of information - On December 29, 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order intended to allow researchers to gain access more quickly to formerly classified national security information. Executive Order 13,526, "Classified National Security Information," makes...
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Freedom of the press - The French Parliament adopted Law 2010-1 of January 4, 2010, on the Protection of Journalistic Sources. (Loi 2010-1 du 4 janvier 2010 relative andagrave; la protection du secret des sources des journalistes, legifrance,
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Elections - It was reported on January 17, 2010, that the Tanzanian government hass been preparing to propose a bill, The Election Expenses Act, 2009, to regulate the funding of political parties. (Bill to Control Funding of Dar...
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Police - A federal appeals court has held that police use of a taser gun on a criminal suspect can constitute an unconstitutionally excessive use of force in some circumstances. Appellant Brian McPherson, a police officer for...
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Handicapped - On December 31, 2009, the French Parliament adopted Law 2009-1791 of December 31, 2009, ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention was signed on March 30, 2007, and entered into...
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Criminal law and procedure - On January 19, 2010, New Zealand's National Party government announced that it had reached an agreement with one of its coalition partners on a policy that will make repeat violent offenders ineligible for parole if they...
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Weapons - The French Parliament recently adopted Law 2010-2 of January 5, 2010, on the compensation of victims of French nuclear testing (Loi 2010-5 du 5 janvier 2010 relative andagrave; la reconnaissance et andagrave; l'indemnisation des victimes des...
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Criminal law and procedure - Two women were arrested in Tehran, Iran, on March 5, 2009, on charges of acting against the national security of the country. Marziah Amirizadeh, who was 30 years old, and Maryan Rostam Poor, 27, were taken...
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Freedom of the press - In a recently published decision of September 29, 2009, the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) held that a crime victim's right to privacy disallows the press to mention her name when reporting on her case, even...
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Emergency communications - On January 11, 2010, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Broadcasting Authority, 5725-1965 Law, requiring the broadcasting of emergency announcements related to public health and security in Arabic, Russian, and Amharic, in addition to the...
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Transplantation of organs and tissues - On January 4, 2010, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Public Health Law, 5754-1994. According to the amendment, a person who donates an organ during his lifetime to another Israeli resident in accordance with the...
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Languages - On January 1, 2010, a new Swiss law went into effect that aims at preserving the multilingual culture of Switzerland. (Bundesgesetz uber die Landessprachen und die Verstandigung zwischen den Sprachgemeinschaften (Federal Act on the National Languages),...
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Gambling - It was reported on January 11, 2009, that Armando Guebuza, the President of Mozambique, signed into law an amendment to the 1994 gambling law. (Guebuza Promulgates Casino Bill, AGENCIA DE INFORMACAO DE MOCAMBIQUE, Jan. 11, 2010,...
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War crimes - On December 16, 2009, the United Nations Security Council extended until the end of 2012 the mandates of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY, in the Hague) and for Rwanda (ICTR, in Arusha,...
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Adoption - On January 6, 2009, the government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, released a letter in response to a parliamentary report that had recommended changing the law to allow same-sex couples to adopt children. In the...
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Taxation - Recently, the governments of two Canadian provinces, British Columbia and Ontario, agreed to replace their provincial sales tax with a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) to be collected by the federal government. In order for the HST...
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Gambling - Belize's Ministry of Economic Development, Commerce, Industry, and Consumer Protection recently issued an advisory to warn that it has discovered that a number of online gaming companies are claiming that they hold online gaming licenses, but...
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Freedom of the press - In late December 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada issued two decisions that widen the defenses available to communicators in defamation cases that are based upon material published on matters of public importance, by establishing a...
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Taxation - On December 31, 2009, Madagascar's 2010 budget was promulgated as Ordinance No. 2009-14. It includes information on direct and indirect taxation rates. The rate for corporate income, personal income, income from movable capital, and capital gains...
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Terrorism - Reportedly motivated by the United States' measure that put Nigeria on the terrorist watch list, the Nigerian National Assembly is gearing up to conduct a second reading of an anti-terrorism bill, "An Act to Provide for...
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Family - On January 8, 2010, the Portuguese Parliament approved a proposal for a law that authorizes persons of the same sex to get married. The proposal was designed to remove the definition stating that marriage is between...
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Communications and electronic information - It was reported on December 25, 2010, that a new bill on cyber crimes, the "Tipiti bill," has high priority on the Indonesian House of Representative's 2010 National Legislation Program. In the view of the country's...
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Government finance - On October 30, 2009, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Ministry of Finance (MOF), and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) issued a joint circular, with...
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Taxation - On December 18, 2009, the Federal Council (Bundesrat), the chamber representing the states in the Austrian legislature, approved the resolutions of the National Council (Nationalrat, representative chamber of the Austrian legislature) that ratified agreement-amending protocols or...
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