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The Guidelines apply to all existing and authorized insurance companies and mutual benefit associations that will set up Takāful window. Takāful is a mutual guarantee in return for the commitment to donate an amount in the form of a specified contribution to the participants' risk fund, whereby a group of participants agree among themselves to support one another jointly for the losses arising from specified risks.
On 25 January 2022, His Excellency Alfonso Lopez, the Prosecutor General of Timor Leste and the ADB Office of the General Counsel's Law and Policy Reform Program team discussed their cooperation on the development of customized training modules for prosecutors; development of standard operating procedures to assist in evidence gathering for gender-based violence (GBV) cases; prosecution strategies that understand, support and protect GBV survivors and thoughtfully interact with vulnerable witnesses; expansion of knowledge about the causes and consequences of GBV; and advocacy tools to sensitively reach out to intended stakeholders and audiences while building greater confidence in the formal justice system.
The Act provides the regulatory framework for the development of microgrid systems in unserved and underserved areas in the Philippines.
The Act merged the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and consolidated the enumerated agencies and functions under the Act, under the constituted Department of Migrant Workers. It also established other offices and mechanisms to strengthen the protection of Overseas Filipino Workers.
The amendment introduced mechanisms for the availment of the incentives under the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Renewable Energy Act of 2008.
The Executive Order condones and reduces the Real Property Taxes and interest on the power generation facilities of Independent Power Producers under Build-Operate-Transfer contracts with Government-Owned or Controlled-Corporations.
The Act abolishes all traditional and cultural practices of child marriages and provides the penalties therefor.
Commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, an expert drafting panel of 12 highly renowned international criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world has just concluded six months of deliberations. The result: a legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential fifth international crime, to sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
The report presents an overview of the issue of spousal abuse in Canada. With the severity of violence suffered by women being much worse, it remains predominantly an issue against women.
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).