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Promoting Gender-Responsive Judicial Systems in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste Minster of Justice H.E. Dr. Manuel Cãrceres da Costa met with the ADB Team to discuss more effective and efficient handling and adjudication of violence against women and girls cases.
ADB Discussed Collaboration on Judicial Capacity Building with the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices
On 16 September 2021, ADB's Law and Policy Reform Program team gave a presentation to the Judicial Education and Training Working Group of the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices on opportunities for collaboration in key areas of law.
ADB Assists the Lao People's Democratic Republic in Drafting Disaster Management and Climate Change Laws
Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) is a landlocked country with unique geographical regions and conditions resulting in a high risk from natural disasters including floods, droughts, storms, and landslides. The country relies on natural resources and agricultural production with limited disaster prevention, preparedness, and response mechanisms. Climate change further exacerbates these risks across the nation.
ADB Convened Inaugural Uzbekistan Judicial Colloquium
ADB Uzbekistan Resident Mission Deputy Country Director Enrico Pinali made opening remarks and emphasized the important role of the judiciary in the effective implementation of laws with significant development impacts, such as the 2021 Law on International Commercial Arbitration enacted with ADB's assistance to improve the business climate
ADB Office of the General Counsel’s Law and Policy Reform Program Convened Virtual Roundtable for Asian Environmental Law Champions
Senior professors and lawyers from across Asia discussed their efforts to bolster environmental legal education and laws as their countries emerged from the COVID pandemic.
Climate Change and the Rights of a Child
Youth climate activists globally have ramped up climate litigation to protect their future. On 11 June 2021, the Human Rights and Climate Change Symposium hosted a panel discussion on Climate Change and the Rights of a Child.
ADB Convened Palau International Commercial Arbitration Workshop
Following Palau’s accession to the New York Convention and the recent enactment of the International Arbitration Act, ADB Office of the General Counsel's Law and Policy Reform Program organized an international commercial arbitration workshop for the Palauan legal community on 7 June 2021 via Zoom.
The Asian Development Bank Hosts The Asia Pacific Judicial Conference on Climate Change: Adjudication in the Time of Covid-19
The emergence of COVID-19 has brought major challenges to all peoples of the world in unexpected ways. Many point to our unabated abuse of nature as the underlying cause of this pandemic. It has amplified numerous existing challenges such as weak health institutions and lack of social protection for the most vulnerable.
The Asian Development Bank Hosts the Second Fiji Judicial Colloquium on International Arbitration
During the Colloquium, Asian Development Bank (ADB) General Counsel (GC) Thomas Clark and ADB Regional Director Masayuki Tachiiri thanked the Hon. Chief Justice and the Fijian judiciary for the strong partnership that ADB and Fiji have built, focused on legal reforms that drive private sector investment and economic opportunity and resilience.
Palau Enacts International Commercial Arbitration Act
Following accession to the New York Convention on 31 March 2020, Palau enacted the implementing law on 29 April 2020, supported by the ADB Office of the General Counsel's Law and Policy Reform Program. The new law establishes a comprehensive and modern legal framework for international arbitration, which has become the preferred way to resolve cross-border commercial disputes.