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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Environment - Japan's legislature, the Diet, passed an amendment of the Waste Disposal and Cleaning Law (Law No. 137 of 1970) in May 2010 (Law No. 34 of 2010). The amendment will be effective within one year and...
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Communications and electronic information - On July 13, 2010, Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, criticized a draft Italian law on wiretapping. The proposed law covers surveillance and eavesdropping in criminal investigations, but some observers are...
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Human rights - On July 12, 2010, Judge Erkki Kourula and Judge Ekaterina Trendafilova of the International Criminal Court (ICC) turned down a request by Germain Katanga, a militia leader from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to...
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Banks and financial institutions - New national consumer credit laws came into force in Australia on July 1, 2010. The reforms are intended to "improve credit and loan transactions, make financial institutions more responsible and to reduce red-tape for lenders and...
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Posted: July 14th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Freedom of speech - Two individuals charged with "the dissemination over the social network Twitter of false rumors for the purpose of destabilizing the national banking system...and causing runs on banks," were arrested on July 8, 2010, in Ciudad Bolivar,...