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Institutional gapCanadaMissing 2

As of 2026-08-19 the exclusion of mental illness as the sole underlying condition for medical assistance in dying in Canada lapses by operation of statute on 2027-03-17 — the statutory duty was to reconstitute a review committee by 2026-02-28, and that duty ends at the report tabled on 2026-06-17

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…

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Secondary
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9
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People affected
32,400,834–41,417,056as of 2026-04-01
Coordination failureGlobalMissing 2

The WHO pandemic agreement was adopted in May 2025 with no legal force, and after seven annex negotiating rounds since September 2025 it still cannot open for signature

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…

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Secondary
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14
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Not derivable
Coordination failureSouth KoreaMissing 2

형사미성년자 만 14세 — 20대 국회 소년법 개정안 42건 중 41건이 임기만료로 폐기됐고 2026년 7월까지 개정 여부가 정해지지 않았다

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.

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20
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Coordination failureNew ZealandMissing 2

New Zealand schools that supply their own drinking water have been drinking water suppliers in law since the Water Services Act 2021, 71 of them reported at least one E. coli detection in 2024, and the assessment contracts covering every self-supplied state school did not commence until 2025-11-01

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…

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11
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Not derivable
Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 2

The US statutory authority to require security at high-risk chemical facilities expired on 2023-07-28 and no federal security requirement was in force at 2025-12-13 — a reauthorization passed the House by 409 votes to 1 on 2023-07-25 and the Senate did not vote on it before that date

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
Enforcement absentAustraliaMissing 3

Australia lowered its PFAS drinking water guideline values in June 2025 and they are not law — state adoption is split, and a Senate committee recommended a binding national standard and national monitoring on 2025-11-19

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…

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10
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Institutional gapCanadaMissing 2

No federal standard requires a Canadian province to keep a supervised consumption site open — Ontario ordered 10 of 17 closed, and its auditor general reported in 2024 that the decision came without impact analysis

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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15
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0
People affected
178,000–263,000as of 2020-03 through the 2026-06 federal data update
Institutional gapGlobalMissing 2

The draft exploitation regulations for the seabed beyond national jurisdiction reached the Council in 2019 and are unadopted as of 2026-08-18, and the two-year rule invoked on 2021-06-30 attaches no penalty, default text or fallback authority to the failure to adopt

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…

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17
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Institutional gapSouth KoreaMissing 1

국민연금 보험료율 9%에서 13%로 오르는 일정은 2033년까지 법에 적혔다 — 남은 구조개혁의 완료 시점은 확인되지 않았다

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.

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17
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People affected
21,400,000–29,680,000as of 2026
Institutional gapNew ZealandMissing 2

New Zealand's remand population is projected to grow 48 percent to 6,900 by June 2036 in Ministry of Justice projections released on 2026-06-12 that state an expected level and are not paired with a target

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.

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17
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People affected
4,537–4,616as of 2026-03-31 to 2026-06-30
Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 2

1,630 of the 2,036 US death investigation offices are coroner offices where state law commonly requires no medical license, and the accuracy of death investigation findings is not measured

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.

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Secondary
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11
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People affected
605,000–1,320,000as of 2018
Enforcement absentAustraliaMissing 3

Australia has required large companies to report on modern slavery in their supply chains since 2019 with no penalty attached to not reporting — a statutory review recommended civil penalties in 2023 and none was law on 2026-08-17

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…

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Secondary
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32
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0
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Not derivable
Enforcement absentCanadaMissing 2

The Canada Disability Benefit pays at most $2,400 a year where the federal budget office estimated $14,356 would close the widest provincial gap, and no identified instrument requires provinces to exempt it

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.

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15
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People affected
600,000–911,000as of 2022-2024
Institutional gapSouth KoreaMissing 1

비순직으로 처리된 군 사망자 3만 8천 명 이상 — 한시 위원회 해산 뒤 2024년 재조사 목표는 45건이다

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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20
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People affected
37,432–38,859as of 2018-09-01~2020-05 · 구간 양끝의 기준시점이 서로 다르다
Institutional exemptionNew ZealandMissing 2

A New Zealand Act in force from 2024-11-26 added four years to every earthquake-prone building strengthening deadline that had not already passed — and as of 2025-09-29 about 5,800 buildings were still awaiting strengthening or demolition

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…

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11
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Not derivable
Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 3

As of 2026-08 a US firearm sale may proceed three business days after the background check begins even if the check never finishes — of 556,496 NICS denials across 2008 through 2015, the ATF referred 558 subjects for prosecution and US Attorneys Offices accepted 254, fewer than 32 a year

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…

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8
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Not derivable
Supply shortageAustraliaMissing 1

A royal commission set 2021-12-31 to clear the Australian home care waiting list — 106,977 people were waiting at 2026-06-30, up 13 percent in six months

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…

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9
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106,977as of 2026-06-30
Enforcement absentCanadaMissing 2

Air passenger compensation in Canada was upheld in 2024 but the federal complaint queue reached about 97,000 cases and 987 days to a decision, and the 2026 plan to clear it carries no date

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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12
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People affected
97,000–126,000as of low measured 2026-05-01, high projected for 2028
Supply shortageSouth KoreaMissing 1

아이돌봄서비스 신청 가구가 2021년 78,118가구에서 2025년 183,794가구가 되는 동안 신청 대비 연계율은 91.9%에서 86.9%로 내려갔다

정부가 운영하는 아이돌봄서비스는 만 12세 이하 아동이 있는 가정에 아이돌보미를 보내 주는 정부지원 바우처 사업입니다. 신청 가구는 2021년 78,118가구에서 2025년 183,794가구로 2.35배 늘었습니다.

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Secondary
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14
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0
People affected
107,248–183,794as of 2025
Institutional gapNew ZealandMissing 2

New Zealand has no law saying who acquires a home in a hazard zone or who pays for it — the Climate Change Response Amendment Bill introduced on 2026-07-15 does not address funding

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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Evidence type
Secondary
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11
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People affected
1,300–219,000as of exposure count on a 2023 basis; damage projection for 2026 to 2060