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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
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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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
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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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
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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Posted: February 17th, 2010, 12:00pm MSK
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...