Canada legalized medical assistance in dying in 2016. Bill C-7, which received royal assent on 2021-03-17, widened eligibility beyond people whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable and at the same time barred requests where a mental illness is the sole underlying medical c…
A special session of the World Health Assembly in December 2021 created an intergovernmental negotiating body to write a pandemic agreement. That body met 13 times in formal and resumed sessions between 2022 and April 2025 and completed a text. Its first deadline, the assembly o…
형법 제9조는 만 14세가 되지 않은 사람의 행위를 벌하지 않는다고 정하고, 소년법 제4조는 10세 이상 14세 미만인 사람을 촉법소년으로 두어 형사처벌 대신 보호처분의 대상으로 삼습니다. 이 두 조문이 긋는 선을 어디에 둘 것인가는 20년 넘게 논의됐고, 2026년 7월 시점까지 형법 제9조의 문언은 만 14세 그대로입니다.
About 20 percent of New Zealand schools, roughly 440 of them, are not connected to a reticulated town supply. They draw drinking water from rainwater tanks or from groundwater bores on their own grounds, and under the Water Services Act 2021 each of those schools is itself a dri…
The United States regulated security at high-risk chemical facilities through the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, a program the Department of Homeland Security began running in 2006 under an appropriations provision and that Congress wrote into standing law in 2014. …
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89,000,000as of designation set as it stood before 2023-07-28, restated 2024-05-07
Australia has no legally binding national limit for PFAS in drinking water. The National Health and Medical Research Council released draft guideline values on 2024-10-21 and stated in the same release that the values carry no legal force and serve as reference material for stat…
A supervised consumption site operates in Canada because the federal Minister of Health has granted it an exemption under section 56.1 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. That section is written as a discretionary power: the Minister may exempt a site if, in the opinion …
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178,000–263,000as of 2020-03 through the 2026-06 federal data update
Articles 136 and 137 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea declare the seabed beyond national jurisdiction and its mineral resources — the Area — to be the common heritage of mankind, vest all rights in those resources in mankind as a whole, and place their exercise with th…
국민연금법 개정안이 2025-03-20 국회 본회의를 통과해 2026-01-01부터 시행됐습니다. 보험료율은 2025년 9% 에서 시작해 2026년 9.5%로 오르고, 그 뒤 매년 0.5%p씩 올라 2033년 13% 에 이릅니다. 소득대체율은 원래 법대로면 2028년까지 매년 낮아져 40%가 될 예정이었는데 이번 개정으로 43% 에 고정됐습니다. 국가의 지급보장 의무도 법 제3조의2에 명문화됐습니다.
On 2026-06-30 New Zealand held 11,256 people in prison, and 4,616 of them, or 41.0 percent, were on remand — held before a verdict or before a sentence. The imprisonment rate on that day was 210 people per 100,000 of population.
The United States has no federal minimum qualification for the people who determine how a death is recorded. Each state defines the office by statute, each county or city funds and staffs it, and the two forms of office that result answer to different requirements.
The Modern Slavery Act 2018 of the Commonwealth commenced on 2019-01-01. It requires every entity carrying on business in Australia with consolidated revenue of at least 100 million Australian dollars to publish an annual statement describing the risk of modern slavery in its op…
Canada created a federal cash payment for working-age adults with disabilities and then set it at a level far below what its own costing office had measured, and it created the payment inside a division of powers where another government can take the money back.
2018-03-13 제정된 「군 사망사고 진상규명에 관한 특별법」에 따라 대통령 소속 군사망사고진상규명위원회가 2018-09-14 출범했습니다. 조사 대상은 1948-11-30 이후 발생한 군 사망사고 중 진정이 제기된 사건이고, 육군·해군·공군에 더해 의무소방대와 의무경찰 복무 중 사망도 포함됩니다.
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37,432–38,859as of 2018-09-01~2020-05 · 구간 양끝의 기준시점이 서로 다르다
Since 2017-07-01 New Zealand has run a national scheme that puts a legal deadline on individual buildings. A territorial authority assesses a building, issues an earthquake-prone building notice, records it on a national register, and from that point the owner has a fixed number…
Under federal law a licensed firearms dealer may complete a transfer once three business days have passed since a background check was initiated, if the National Instant Criminal Background Check System has not returned a denial in that time. The transfer is lawful whether or no…
Australia runs a queue between the point at which an older person is told they qualify for home care and the point at which the care begins. A person is assessed, approved at one of four levels, and then waits for the funding to be released. The wait exists because the number of…
Canada has required airlines to pay fixed compensation for cancellations, long delays, denied boarding and mishandled baggage since the Air Passenger Protection Regulations took effect in 2019. When an airline refuses to pay, the passenger may file a complaint with the Canadian …
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97,000–126,000as of low measured 2026-05-01, high projected for 2028
New Zealand has no statutory framework for managed retreat — no law that says who decides a home can no longer be lived in, who acquires it, and who pays. The Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act of 2019 made a national climate change risk assessment a duty every …
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1,300–219,000as of exposure count on a 2023 basis; damage projection for 2026 to 2060