International Law

Center for Law Information supports "Special Procedure on climate change and human rights"

Posted on March 02, 2011
11-02-28 CC Letter, ver 3 (1).pdf View this on Posterous A group of world Non Governmental Organizations, including the Center for Law Information (CeLI), petition for the establishment of a  Special Procedure on climate change and human rights. The NGOs consider that establishment of a special procedure, such as that which provide a mandate to a special rapporteur, would be an efficient way to tackle the issue...

Center for Law Information supports "Special Procedure on climate change and human rights"

Posted on March 02, 2011
A group of world Non Governmental Organizations, including the Center for Law Information (CeLI), petition for the establishment of a  Special Procedure on climate change and human rights. The NGOs consider that establishment of a special procedure, such as that which provide a mandate to a special rapporteur, would be an efficient way to tackle the issue...

Fwd: New Report on Global Governance of Nano-scale Technologies

Posted on February 10, 2011
   ETC Group News Release 10 February 2011 www.etcgroup.org New Report on Global Governance of Nano-scale Technologies: ETC Group's "Little" Contribution to the Big Conversation in Dakar When activists, social movements and civil society organizations came together in Porto Alegre, Brazil for the first World Social Forum (WSF), governments had just begun pouring money into nano R&D...

International workshop - Dilemmas of choice: Responsibility in nanotechnology development (deadline March 31, 2011)

Posted on February 01, 2011
 University of Padova CALL FOR PAPERS International workshop Dilemmas of choiceResponsibility in nanotechnology development   Rovigo, Italy, June 6-7, 2011 (deadline: March 31, 2011) More information and download here <http://www...

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Fw: Tax: Laws in some countries do not meet global standards

Posted on January 27, 2011
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphoneFrom: <Sara.SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI@oecd.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:10:40 +0100Subject: Tax: Laws in some countries do not meet global standardsOECD ? Paris, 27 January 2011 Tax: Laws in some countries do not meet global standards  The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax purposes, hosted by the OECD, has released ten reports which evaluate jurisdictions' commitment to tax transparency and examine whether information is made available and accessible to foreign tax authorities...

Right to sanitation in India - Workshop in Geneva, 27-28 January

Posted on January 22, 2011
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphoneFrom: "IELRC.ORG" <info@ielrc.org> Sender: ielrcnewsletter@gmail.com Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:46:37 +0530To: <mova@alafghani.info>; <info@ielrc.org>Subject: Right to sanitation in India - Workshop in Geneva, 27-28 January Dear Colleague,   The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC)  is organising a with the support of the Law Environment and Development Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies ? University of London (SOAS) a workshop on the Right to Sanitation - Lessons from India in Geneva on 27?28 January 2011...

Symposium and Workshop: National strategies for promoting security and sustainability within a rapidly changing world

Posted on January 20, 2011
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/symposium/ National Water Law: Managing Global Water Resources Symposium and Workshop: National strategies for promoting security and sustainability within a rapidly changing world June 20-24, 2011; Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, UK Time Activities of Day 1: Monday 20th June 2011    9:00  Coffee and Registration  9...

Fwd: Your Paper Makes SSRN Top Ten List

Posted on January 02, 2011
Note: this is a working paper. Your comments are highly appreciated----- Your paper, "The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia's Water Resources", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for Environment & Natural Resources eJournal...

Indonesia - Investment Policy Review ? OECD

Posted on December 23, 2010
The 2010 OECD Investment Policy Review contains a quite comprehensive assessment of Indonesia?s regulatory and investment policy. For those of you who areinvestment lawyers, Chapter 2 discusses in depth, Indonesia?s  implementation of international investment principles...

Transparency fighters and the rejection of authority

Posted on December 20, 2010
  What do whistleblowers, transparency fighters, file sharing activists and defectors have in common? They may all possess the same personality trait: a rejection of authority. According to Esther Dyson in project syndicate:     But you probably need to be a bit weird and callous to devote your life to transparency for others...

Transparency leads to blackmail?

Posted on December 15, 2010
The Jakarta Post reported several months ago, that the State Audit agency (BPK) cease the publication of companies financial audit report due to blackmailing concerns. According to the article:     The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has stopped publishing online reports, to the dismay of freedom of information proponents...

Human Right to Water and the Management of Indonesia?s Water Resources

Posted on December 13, 2010
I recently uploaded my World Water Week presentation?s background paper to the SSRN. The title of the paper is ?The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia?s Water Resources?. In the paper, I argued that: ??there are gaps in the Indonesian legal framework in securing transparency, access to information, participation, access to justice and the procedure in recognizing customary rights in water resources management...

The Insider?s Threat to Business (Australian Government)

Posted on December 12, 2010
  In the wake of wikileaks, the Australian government recently issued a booklet titled ?The Insider?s Threat to Business: A Personnel Security Handbook?. The booklet elaborate precautionary approaches that a business organization may employ in order to prevent the leak of confidential business information...

Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia [Guest Post]

Posted on November 08, 2010
  Ed note: this is a guest post by Suria Nataadmadja (suria[at]surialaw.com) and Selviyani from SURIA NATAADMADJA & ASSOCIATES. If you have further inquiry on this topic, please contact the authors directly. As a matter of clarity, the term foreign direct investment is used here to distinguish it from the investment made by acquiring the shares of an Indonesian company from the stock market...

House to further regulate accounting services

Posted on October 29, 2010
Legislative Update 01/2010   Earlier this year, the House of Representative presented the academic draft on the Law on Public Accountants (download the academic draft here, in Bahasa). The current version of the draft law in its preamble does not seem to provide enough justification on why accounting services has to be regulated...

Enjoy ILR in your Kindle

Posted on October 28, 2010
The ILR entered into agreement with Amazon yesterday to deliver the blog to Kindle devices through its Kindle Publishing program. If you subscribe to ILR through Amazon, the content will be delivered directly to your Kindle device through Whispernet. Note that Amazon impose a $ 1,99 monthly charge for this subscription and so far, the program will only work if your Kindle country setting is set to United States...

Indonesia?s Attorney General Lost its Power to Ban Books

Posted on October 15, 2010
                                                            Press Release: Indonesia?s Attorney General Lost its Power to Ban Books The Indonesian Constitutional Court in a 7-1 ruling pronounced last Wednesday, October 13th, that the Indonesian Attorney General is stripped from its power to ban books...

Links to presentation on the Human Right to Water

Posted on September 28, 2010
  The following titles links to World Water Week website     14:10 Concepts I - "Legal and policy development, water quality & the right to water". Dr. Riant Nugroho, Board Member the Jakarta Water Regulatory Body, Indonesia 14:30 Concepts II - "The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and the right to water", Ms...

More on the sinking of Jakarta

Posted on September 27, 2010
On Sept 17, one of the lanes of the main road connecting Jakarta to the Tanjung Priok port collapsed. The police had to detour the traffic to another road. The culprit blamed for the incident is abrasion from salt water (news in Bahasa Indonesia):                                 Earlier on the 14th of September, another land subsidence occurred along Manggarai river in Sultan Agung street, causing the fence to tilt for 45 degrees (click here for more news)...

More on the sinking of Jakarta

Posted on September 26, 2010
On Sept 17, one of the lanes of the main road connecting Jakarta to the Tanjung Priok port collapsed. The police had to detour the traffic to another road. The culprit blamed for the incident is abrasion from salt water (news in Bahasa Indonesia):                                 Earlier on the 14th of September, another land subsidence occurred along Manggarai river in Sultan Agung street, causing the fence to tilt for 45 degrees (click here for more news)...

The Potential Role of the Human Right to Water in the Management of Indonesia?s Water Resources

Posted on September 25, 2010
  The Human Right to Water under the Water Law? Yes. But look also at its elucidation.     If there is anything I forgot to upload into this website from the last World Water Week then it is my own presentation and pictures. So here it is...

The Stockholm Statement: Water is the key to other MDG Goals (World Water Week)

Posted on September 19, 2010
The World Water Week which ended last September 11th urge participants of the upcoming meeting of MDG High Level Plenary Meeting to pay more attention to water issues. According to the Stockholm Statement: ??water needs more attention: policy, investment and management...

For the travelling lawyers [tips]

Posted on September 16, 2010
    Just to add some more tips: 1. Don?t forget to bring converters! 2. Use Kindle to read (and skip all the print papers) 3. Make sure everything is fully charged 4. Hassle first, fun later. Meaning: go through security check then find your coffee

A Case Study of Semarang Water Utility (Paper)

Posted on September 15, 2010
UNDIP e-Journal published a paper about Semarang water utility.  Here?s some interesting facts on the paper: In order to obtain the water connection people have to pay installment cost Rp 700.000 (75 US $) and it is equal with minimum wage per month for labor in Semarang...

Download the Greening of Water Law (ebook)

Posted on September 15, 2010
  UNEP recently released a publication titled ?The Greening of Water Law?. The book contain elements to consider for integrating environmental concerns into national and international water law. Read/download here. H.T to: Bo Magsig

Right to Water as a ?Red Herring? ?

Posted on September 14, 2010
An interesting article from Ching Leong at NUS SPP: ?Rights and Price: A Pair of Red Herrings in Water?. She contends: If water is perceived as a human right, it should be freely available to one and all. But clean water comes at a cost and unless that cost is paid for, it is difficult to ensure universal access...

e-democracia, Brazil?s Wiki Legislation Forum. What about Indonesia? (Wikislation)

Posted on September 14, 2010
Wikislation is the term I used to describe bottom-up law making process using wiki. This has been implemented in one of Philipine?s region. Recently, Brazil came with the more sophiticated Wikislation idea through its website, e-democracia.    The Techrepublic explains:   The program is a kind of crowdsourcing for legislative purpose...

Media Statement: Towards a Case Base Approach to Human Right to Water and Water Quality (World Water Week)

Posted on September 12, 2010
  Stockholm, September 09, 2010 (ILR). ACCRA, BothENDS, Swedish Water House, UNESCO Etxea, WaterLex and the UNDP Water Governance Programme convened a seminar at the World Water Week, Stockholm, September 09, 2010. The presenters explains the potentials of Human Rights Based Approach to Integrated Water Resources Management...

Legal Policy and Development. Jakarta's Water Future (World Water Week) - UPDATE

Posted on September 12, 2010
This is the full version of Dr. Riant Nugroho?s Presentation at the World Water Week. The presentation is packed with the latest statistics on Indonesia?s water supply/sanitation and resources. A true reference indeed. Enjoy! Jakarta case presentation editedView more presentations from movanet...

Millennium Development Goals Report 2010

Posted on September 11, 2010
The UN General Assembly will hold a two day summit from September 20 to 22 this year in New York. Download the 2010 MDG Report here. Click here for the Summit?s website.

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