The need for a World Women Lawyers Conference remains as strong today as it was in 2001 when the first such International Bar Association Conference was convened. So began Karaen Mathis in her Keynote speech delivered at the IBA’s World Women Lawyers’ Conference in June 2003.
Women are entering the global labour force in record numbers. In 2003, 1.1 billion of the world's 2.8 billion workers, or 40 per cent, were women, representing a worldwide increase of nearly 200 million women in employment in the past ten years.
It is clear that the concept of ‘terrorism’ is dynamic and highly subjective and has different meanings. John V Whitback of the Daily Star ( South Africa) perhaps best captures the difficulty with conceptualising the term:
The UK’s response to the post-11 September world is best understood in the context of a wider change in immigration practice and policy. This was already underway on that fateful day.
‘Transfer’ Does Not Necessarily Mean ‘Transfer’
To explain this cryptic heading, we note that it appears to us that the word ‘transfer’ may often be understood as a term of art in other countries, particularly the United States, apparently connoting fundamental changes to the contractual basis of a person’s employment such as in relation to remuneration source, contract situs, pension fund membership etc. Generally in Britain the word transfer does not mean or imply any of these things.
This article addresses several new issues of practical concern in view of the massive increase of foreign investment in India. According to the latest available statistics India ranks eleventh among developing countries in terms of foreign direct investments. FDI inflows was $ 97 million in 1990-91, which increased to $ 3,557 million 1997-98.
On 1 May 2004, the Czech Republic is to become a member of the European Union along with Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia. In the past decade, all of these countries have been target countries for foreign investors from Western Europe, North America, East Asia and other parts of the world.
It is now a well-publicised fact that the largest expansion of the European Union Member States is imminent following careful months of preparation. In May 2004 ten new countries – the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – will join the European Union (EU). The formal signing of accession treaties took place on 1 April 2003 and they become fully effective on 1 May 2004. In anticipation of this the candidate countries have been generally present in Brussels through their status as observers.
Over the next two years over 800 hundred Iraqi judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers will complete training courses to facilitate the reconstruction of Iraq’s legal framework and legal institutions, the International Bar Association (IBA) announced in February.
Foreign Exchange Reserves Position and Background
In statistics released by India’s central banking authority, ie the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) on 8 February 2004, it was stated that the country's foreign exchange reserves went up by USD 761 million to USD 104,998 million in the period under review. According to RBI, the foreign currency assets also saw an increase of USD 761 million to touch USD 100,780 million. India's foreign exchange reserves rose by a further USD 761 million to near the US Dollar 105 billion mark for the week ended 30 January.
Below, Margarita Doménech explains how moving from one country to another with young children can, perhaps unexpectedly, be caught by international law dealing with parental child abduction.
In the last edition of Women in Law in my article, ‘True Power I ‘Who Am I?’, I discussed why I believe women need their own space for discussion of issues which are particular to them.
Lawyering is about the Client
The first thing Professor Marjorie Silver does in her first-year civil procedure class at Touro College Law Center in Huntington, NY, is give her students a taste of what lies ahead. Here is what she tells them:
One of the most stressful aspects of any executive’s life can be the high degree of travel involved. Not only is it highly time-consuming and undeniably fatiguing, but many hours spent on planes, trains and automobiles can produce untold physical and mental stress.
As I review the professional priorities of my life,? I feel privileged to note the contribution that I am able to make as a woman both professionally and personally. Life has been good to me: my education has enabled me to open the horizons to a truly international lifestyle that encompasses Europe – particularly the UK- the USA and India. My qualifications have granted me a passport to a way of life that enables self-sufficiency, flexibility and fun; but the real basis for my life has been my interest in ‘practical spirituality’, to which I will return later. As a professional woman I have also the joy of a balanced home life.
In the first issue of Women in Law, I wrote about the history of homoeopathy and its relevance in today’s world. Homoeopathy is a very safe and effective way of not only treating illness, but also for keeping healthy.
