Full Coverage: Law

31.03.2006 Since the establishment of democracy in 2000, the media reforms in Serbia have been both slow and inconsistent. In order to expedite the approximation to requirements presented by the future EU membership, Serbia needs to give up on its arbitrary media policies and legislation and commit itself to implementation of adopted regulation.

31.03.2006 The Kerala High Court has rejected the Indian environment ministryÂ’s clearance to the Athirapilly Project, which seeks to construct a hydro-power project, across the Chalakudy river in the south Indian state. Clearance was rejected on the grounds that no public hearing had been conducted after the Environment Impact Assessment.

31.03.2006 On March 28, the very first doctor in India was sentenced to two years in prison for violating the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act. In the 11 years since the Act was enacted, why have lawbreakers got away?

31.03.2006 An Indian group of people living with HIV/AIDS have opposed a patent application filed by global pharma major GlaxoSmithKline for Combivir, a fixed dose combination AIDS drug on the grounds that it would make the treatment unaffordable. A number of Indian NGOs have submitted their opposition, based on technical and health grounds, to a patent application filed at the Kolkata patent office by the company.

30.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 29 (OneWorld) - Former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor is to stand trial nearly three years after a UN-backed court indicted him on 17 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in West African massacres.

30.03.2006 The city of Dubai is experienceing one of the largest construction booms in the history of the world--on the backs of migrant laborers who face abusive labor practices and squalid living conditions, according to Human Rights Watch.

29.03.2006 Just hours after his disappearance was announced, Charles Taylor was caught at the northern Nigerian border Wednesday, nearly 1000 miles from his home. He was attempting to leave the country in a jeep with diplomatic plates and a trunk full of U.S. dollars.

29.03.2006 The Skopje United Nations Association (SUNA) presented yesterday several concrete proposals for changes in the Draft-Law on Donation and Sponsorship in the Public Domain.

29.03.2006 Less than three days after revoking his asylum, the government of Nigeria announced Tuesday that Charles Taylor had disappeared, drawing outrage from rights groups and causing unease in Liberia's capital.

28.03.2006 Many believe that the recent mass rallies across the United States in support of immigrants' rights led a Senate committee to promote an immigration reform bill Monday that--in sharp contrast to a House bill passed in December--would put migrant workers on a path to citizenship. Hispanic media outlets paved the way for the impressive show of people power.

27.03.2006 Nigeria has announced that Liberian officials are now "free to take" former warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, but it's in Sierra Leone that he's really wanted--to face charges of crimes against humanity.

24.03.2006 Developing-country negotiators are trying to make sure their people are properly compensated for plants and other natural products taken from their territory by international corporations, but they've largely been stonewalled at a global conference on biodiversity in Brazil this week.

23.03.2006 Goa is every tourist's dream vacation. But there is a darker side. Cases after cases of paedophilia involving tourists have been reported from the state. An alarmed Goa government has now passed a Children's Act.

22.03.2006 Liberia's 14-year civil war left a legacy of sexual violence against women and impunity for rape, says Refugees International, arguing that to bring peace and development to the country Charles Taylor and others must be brought to justice for the war crimes they committed.

22.03.2006 "A new chapter in the fight against impunity" has begun with the International Criminal Court arrest of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says Amnesty International.

21.03.2006 "Only in a Humpty-Dumpty world," would the Bush Administration's regulation easing clean air requirements for some 17,000 industrial facilities be allowed under the existing Clean Air Act, a federal appeals court said Friday.

21.03.2006 Six years after it was written, only 11 of 46 countries have ratified the Council of Europe's Protocol outlawing discrimination of all kinds by all public authorities.

20.03.2006 'Despite considerable economic independence, women in Kerala are still living in misery and are being assualted at home', said Justice Usha, inaugurating the Domestic Violence Act 2005 - Awareness Seminar in Kochi. She added that women should make use of the existing laws to make their lives more respectable.

17.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 16 (OneWorld) - International arms makers and traders have violated every UN arms embargo of the past decade with almost total impunity, watchdogs said Thursday in a dossier submitted to the Security Council.

16.03.2006 The Eko-svest (Eco Awareness) environmental organizations presented its comparative analysis of GMO (genetically modified organisms) related legislation, prepared under the Macedonia – GMO Free Zone project, financially supported by Milieukontakt.