Defending environmental and human rights in Thailand: Enlaw’s Surachai and Supaporn
Surachai and Supaporn from EnLaw were working for a human rights law firm when they were assigned a case which turned into one of Thailand’s most notable cases of environmental litigation where ethnic villagers prevailed.
Saving one of the Philippine’s last ecological frontiers: Gerthie Mayo-Anda, and the One Palawan Movement
ELAC and Gerthie work together with civil society groups to educate indigenous people and local communities to protect their sources of food, water and livelihoods.
Philippines Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program 10th Session - Panel on Environmental Law in Asia and Opportunities for Comparative Law
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This is the tenth session in the Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program that ran from September to December 2021 and was hosted by the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). This session compared teachings and practices of environmental law across international settings.
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Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program: Environmental Law in the Anthropocene
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This is a special eleventh session in the Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program that ran from September to December 2021 and was hosted by the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board in partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Philippines Legal Education Board - Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program (September 22 - December 8, 2021)
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These trainings are part of a series under the Republic of the Philippines Legal Education Board’s 12-week Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program in support of its Revised Model Curriculum of the Basic Law Program (RMLC), which has provided for the mandatory teaching of environmental and natural resources law as a non-core subject in all Philippine law schools.
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ADB Presented on Enabling a Conducive Environment for the Digital Economy at the Virtual Side Event of UN ESCAP's Third Ministerial Conference
Gretchen Aquino of the Asian Development Bank's Office of the General Counsel participated in the panel discussion at the virtual side event at the UN ESCAP Third Ministerial Conference on Regional Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific.
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Innovative Agri-Finance Products to Help Address Food Insecurity in ADB Developing Member Countries
In this webinar, ADB's expert panel talks about the prospect of innovative agriculture finance products for ADB’s developing member countries and what it will take to make them work to help farmers increase their production capacity to help address the food insecurity crisis.
Asia-Pacific Conference on the Promotion of Gender-Responsive Judicial Systems
Photos from the Asia-Pacific Conference on the Promotion of Gender-Responsive Judicial Systems, which convened justice sector actors and key stakeholders to strengthen the formal justice systems’ responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the region.
Presentation on the Draft Report on E-Commerce Law in the Kyrgyz Republic
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This event began with a presentation of the draft report followed by feedback, comments and discussion with the representatives from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Association of E-commerce in Kyrgyz Republic, the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) Institute, the International Trade Center (ITC), the Central Asia e-Commerce Law and Policy Project of the US Department of Commerce and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Secretariat.
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ADB Convened Global Environmental Leaders at Stockholm+50 Symposium
Thomas Clark, General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank addressed global environmental leaders on the need to strengthen the environmental rule of law to accelerate action in addressing the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution during the Symposium on Judges and the Environment at the Stockholm+50 Conference.