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Yet, in practice, the Israeli government has been defying those legal norms for a long time.
With the nation-state law in place, however, their legal recourse will be severely constrained.
But an important obstacle remains: the legal predicament of gay men in much of the developing world.
Nigerians living with HIV must do more than just fight the infection; they also must brave social stigma, weather discrimination by secular and religious institutions, and now, potentially, face threats from the legal system.
Last spring, as legal persecution of gays there mounted, the government raided an HIV clinic and withheld its operating license for providing care and support to HIV-positive men who have sex with men.
The WHO should make it clear that while it may not be advocating for LGBT political rights, it is determined to ensure that all those who can benefit from PrEP are able to access the necessary drugs, without fear of legal consequences.
Europeans, for the most part, have come to understand the important role that EU jurisprudence plays in national legal systems.
The second question concerns China, which has not hesitated to exploit legal grey areas unregulated by the WTO to advance its economic and geopolitical interests.
Most are in fact economic migrants, but they present themselves as refugees because that is the only legal way to stay in Europe.
Xi is certainly not finished yet, having outlined a set of legal reforms at last month’s Fourth Plenum of the Communist Party aimed at creating a more level playing field for the public and private sectors.
Greater fidelity to the rule of law will also lead to the creation of a legal and financial infrastructure that reduces fraud in the private sector, including in financial reporting.
In 1957, when legal segregation seemed entrenched in the US, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, used the occasion of his country’s independence from Britain to highlight the injustices experienced daily by black Americans.
From de Gaulle to PutinPARIS – Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d’etat.
A final, and often-overlooked, source of harm to mental health associated with cannabis is the legal fallout of being caught with it.
Penalties for cannabis possession range from none (for example, the Netherlands and Portugal) to legal warnings, fines, and even life imprisonment (Southeast Asia).
Once these legal changes – the most sweeping in our post-war history – are in place by this summer, Japan will be better able to provide a seamless response for all levels of crisis.
Achieving this will require overhauling the country’s regulatory and legal framework.
After the trials, the International Law Commission of the United Nations codified the underlying legal principles in a document known as the Nuremberg Principles.
The authorities that arrested Hadjiev last month made no pretense of due process: they offered no arrest warrant, and have repeatedly refused him access to relatives and legal counsel.
My government has pledged its willingness live up to the legal norms that are the core of European Union membership.
Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.
Conventional legal aid is not always workable; it’s necessary to experiment with more flexible, context-responsive models.
The international community should address these challenges by establishing a global fund for legal empowerment.
Legal empowerment is a public good: it renders governments more accountable, and makes development more equitable.
But unlike public health, for example, states have a natural disincentive to support legal empowerment, because it constrains state power – which is all the more reason for a multilateral financing mechanism.
Beyond the explicit constraints that are expected – women will probably have to secure approval from their legal male guardians, and may be limited to non-combat roles – there is the need to dismantle the military’s rigid patriarchal systems.
As soon as it did, America’s corporations picked up their legal headquarters and moved next door to Delaware.
Tax havens can be eliminated; all that is required is to close the loopholes that allow legal tax avoidance and establish enforcement mechanisms that make illegal tax evasion no longer worth the risk.
As Zucman points out, a corporation can move its legal headquarters and use mechanisms like transfer pricing to shift its tax burden, but moving its employees across national borders is more difficult, and it cannot move its customers.
And, because the government chose not to go to Congress for a law authorizing the auction, investors feared that the legal framework was open to challenge.
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