Projects

Water and sanitation are necessary for survival. Making these rights visible and meaningful in domestic law is the first step to realizing access to water and sanitation. This report identifies whether the rights to water and sanitation have been recognized expressly in the domestic law of francophone African countries.

The Compendium of International and National Legal Framework on Child Marriage provides a survey of the key international, regional and national legal instruments as they relate to the right to marry with the full and free consent of the intending spouses and to the obligation for government to take legislative measures to abolish child marriage.

This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM in Nigeria in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.

This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Senegal. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Senegal in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.

This legal literacy community training manual is an illustrated description of the national legal framework on FGM/C and of a selection of existing case law in Guinea in order to improve legal literacy within communities speaking different languages and/or for illiterate members.

This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Guinea. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Guinea in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.

This legal community training manual is an illustrated description of the anti-Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Law and existing case law in Guinea-Bissau. The illustrations describe each article of the anti-FGM/C law in order to improve legal literacy in respect to FGM/C within communities speaking different languages and/or for illiterate members.

This legal training manual is a comprehensive material developed to train professionals on the Law against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Guinea Bissau. This legal training manual aims to provide a complete and up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework surrounding FGM/C in Guinea Bissau in order to improve law enforcement and help professionals to best exercise their work and protect citizens from this crime.

Researcher have shown that FGM/C deprives women of sexual satisfaction, sexual health and psychophysical wellbeing. The Compendium was prepared to contribute to this urgent and important development debate with the understanding that the knowledge of the law is an important empowerment tool to end FGM.

This paper is intended to identify both barriers to AI deployment at scale in developing countries and the types of regulatory and public policy actions that can best accelerate the appropriate use of AI to improve healthcare in developing countries’ contexts.

This article aims to show how the provisional measures ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights positively impacted Brazilian public policies related to juveniles deprived of their liberty.

Although scholarship in law and development that explores the relationship between law and social and economic progress has evolved over the last four decades, this area of inquiry remains unfamiliar to many legal scholars, lawyers, and policy makers. Scholars have not yet been able to develop a theory that systematically explains the interrelationship between law and development, which would establish law and development as a robust and coherent academic field. This Article attempts to fill this gap by presenting a general theory that defines the disciplinary parameters of law and development, and explains the mechanisms by which law impacts development.

ELI Business Rescue Report contains 115 recommendations on a wide variety of themes affected by the rescue of financially distressed businesses: the legal rules for professions and courts, contract law, treatment and ranking of creditors’ claims, labor law, laws relating to transaction avoidance and corporate law, all focused on business rescue.

This Assessment is conducted as part of a larger platform established in 2016 through a joint World Bank and UNHCR initiative to support Afghanistan’s forcibly displaced population.

This article seeks to inform the potential of bioprinting (3D printing of human organs), the legal aspects of the technology, its patentability, regulation, and ethical considerations. Although these patents are presumed valid, the validity of some of these might be litigated in due course, as the technology advances and the market expands.

This white paper attempts to lay out central concepts related to AI and complementary technologies, their rapid progress, and discuss the attendant salient legal, ethical, innovation and development policy issues. The paper aims at providing a broad overview of key issues thus stimulating World Bank Group wide discussion on the topic.

This white paper dedicates to developing the concept of water security in order to build a Water Security Framework. In this report, the concept of water security and identify the nexuses that reflect the relationships that represent water security were discussed.

There are more than 100 countries in the world today which are practicing a form of offset together with their government procurement without any common regulation. The purpose of this Community of Practice conducted by ECCO is to propose a draft to UNCITRAL to regulate this dimension of public trade.

This Compendium provides an accessible reference for research on international, regional and national law relating to forced displacement. It is organized to present information about a significant number of international, regional and national legal instruments that affect the forcibly displaced persons.