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The Equator Principles serve as a benchmark for participating financial institutions (Equator Principles Financial Institutions or EPFIs) for the identification, assessment, and management of environmental and social risks when financing projects. EPFIs are committed to providing project finance advisory services, project finance, project-related corporate loans, bridge loans, project-related refinancing or project-related acquisition finance to projects that comply with the relevant Equator Principles requirements.
The Oslo Principles on Climate Change Obligations (Oslo Principles) embody a set of principles on the essential obligations of states and enterprises to prevent the critical level of global warming. Within the context of the response to climate change, the precautionary principle calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to the extent, and at a pace, necessary to protect against the threats of climate change that can still be avoided.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature World Declaration on the Environmental Rule of Law (World Declaration) was prepared by group of experts from the World Commission on Environmental Law at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Environmental Law Congress. The group drafted the World Declaration with the intention of establishing environmental rule of law as the legal foundation for environmental justice.
The Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE) has the avowed mission to support the role of courts and tribunals in applying and enforcing environmental laws and in promoting the environmental rule of law and the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. The GJIE was established to respond to the need of continued opportunities, led by judges and for judges, for education; capacity building; collaboration; and exchange of information, practices, and experiences.
The Principles on the Climate Obligations of Enterprises (Enterprises Principles) focus on the obligations of investors and enterprises in the context of climate change. Broadly, enterprises should reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of their own activities to the same extent as the country or countries where the activities take place. As such, the burden will mainly be on enterprises in developed countries.
The Handbook for Legislation on Violence Against Women aims to guide stakeholders in the adoption and implementation of legislation to prevent violence against women. The Handbook sets out the international and regional legal and policy frameworks governing the enactments and implementation of laws to address violence against women. It further provides a model framework for legislation on violence against women.
The General Recommendation observes that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women requires State parties to act to protect women against violence of any kind occurring within the family, at the workplace or in any other area of social life. Thus, it recommends that State parties should include in their periodic report to the Committee information about legislation in force to protect women against the incidence of all kinds of violence in everyday life (including sexual violence, abuses in the family and sexual harassment at the workplace), among others.
This case involves domestic violence allegedly committed by the appellant husband against his wife, the complainant. Citing the constitution, the court stated that the state had the obligation to deal with domestic violence, being mandated to protect both the rights of everyone to enjoy freedom and security of the person, and to bodily and psychological integrity, and the right to have their dignity respected and protected, as well as the defensive rights of everyone not to be subjected to torture in any way and not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way.
The case addresses the unequal sharing of property between male and female siblings. The court explained that while Islamic law on inheritance provides that the female is entitled to half of the share of the male, this is only the minimum, and may be increased through the exercise of ijtihad (independent reasoning).