Projects

75.05 per cent of the share of the global population follows one of the world’s major faiths. The moral and ethical principles that these religions preach seem very close to the secular common principles adopted by the international community over the last hundred years in the framework of international institutions through their legal instruments like treaties, agreements, resolutions and declarations. This report exams this overlap.

The African Task Force on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities (ATF) was an 18-month initiative of the Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocity Prevention. This final report reflects the outcome of desk research and interviews conducted by the members of the ATF, as well as the result of five subsequent workshops and bilateral interviews organized with the senior management of the relevant organizations in Africa.

Falsified and substandard medicines (FS) are a known public health problem. The initiative is designed to provide the pilot country, Uganda, with guidance on steps it can take to address the problem of FS medicines within its borders and with its neighbors.

This report contains 21 proposals for enhancing environmental justice in the 21st century. It is the result of discussions among the Environment Committee of the Club des Juristes. The report was produced to contemplate the international environmental law of tomorrow.

This Regional Study is focused on the prevention and combat of violence against children through the Internet in Latin American countries in order to illuminate problems shared by the different countries, identify the gaps in legislation, and highlight good practices in the prevention and protection of minor victims of online sexual exploitation.

Falsified and substandard medicines (FS) are a known public health problem. This report on the Legal & Regulation Aspect of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is a stage result of an initiative to build a knowledge base and collection of tools to support a whole-of-government approach to manage the public health problem of falsified and substandard medicines in any country.

This report concludes that it is possible to develop efficient policy mechanisms and control the problem—if the international community understands the consequences of corruption and is equipped with insights about the sources of context-specific values achievable through corruption, the individual propensity to grab, and the moral environment.

This study enhances the protection of children by supporting legislative responses to deal with ICT-facilitated child abuse and exploitation in 17 targeted Asian countries. It provides an analysis of domestic law in alignment with relevant international instruments; examples of good legal practices for child online protection at a national level; and national legal frameworks to deal with issues of online child abuse and exploitation.

OECD Foreign Bribery Report allows readers to better understand the “who, what, where, why, and how” of foreign bribery. This report measures and describes transnational corruption with reference to actual cases, rather than with statistics derived from econometrics, perception surveys or unsubstantiated allegations.

An article explores how Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) can help lift disenfranchised women from oppressive and repressive circumstances. By stimulating new income generation and creating educational opportunities in rural areas, IPRs have the potential to make a tangible difference for women.

A document focuses on corruption that may occur in funded projects of government or international organizations

An overview of the legal and regulatory framework of East African Community countries in the area of education for persons with disabilities and analyzes compliance with the obligations pertaining to education in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.