Legal News - International

Paris Climate agreement is an international agreement between countries to create policies and legislations to mitigate and adapt to climate change thus participating in bringing about betterment in climate to sustain life.

The Council of the European Union decided to intensify the existing restrictive measure regarding the situation in Belarus by imposing a ban on the overflight of the airspace of EU and on the access by all kinds of Belarusian carriers to EU airports.

Thailand government passes the bill, it will join a small group of countries that use chemical castration. Those countries are-- Poland, Estonia, Russia and South Korea, plus some American states. 

Mongolia adopts new law for human rights defenders, the first of its kind in Asia. This encourages other countries in the same milestone to make laws aiming to protect and encourage their fighters defending human rights.

The ministry of Health and Family welfare ( MoHFW) released a draft of New drugs and medical devices and Cosmetics Bill 2022, to keep pace with changing needs, time and technology. The existing Drugs and cosmetics Act, 1940, is a pre-independence legislation enacted by the Central Legislative Assembly.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court last month, privacy laws wereinitiated over raised concerns that personal data could be used as evidence that a user sought an abortion.

France’s constitutional court (Constitutional Council) has ruled that the country’s 2012 anti-ticket touting laws are compliant with the French constitution, knocking back secondary platform Viagogo’s efforts to have the law ruled unconstitutional on the basis they are “disproportionate breach of freedom of enterprise” – a move backed by rival platform, Ticketbis, owned by eBay’s StubHub.

Crypto-assets are digital assets that can be used as a means of exchange or for investments. Unlike traditional banking, there is no need for a central register - they are based on distributed ledger technology that enables transactions to be recorded securely by a network of computers.

The United Nations Oceans Conference (UNOC) concluded on July 1, 2022, in Lisbon after a full five days of discussions and events focused on achieving a shared goal: U.N. Sustainable Development Goal No. 14 (SDG14), which aims to protect life below water.

The country has been targeted by hackers in several major attacks since the advancement of internet and its usage by its citizens. Even though The Kenya Information Communication Act and penal code already exists that regulates and criminalizes such cybercrimes, the Computer and Cyber Crime Act has superseded the already existing act.