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Parlamento del Uruguay

Official site of the Uruguayan Parliament. Provides background information about the structure, role and work of the Parliament including the Senate Chamber, Chamber of Representatives, General Assembly and related Commissions, together with a wide range of legislation, documents and minutes, which can be searched by keyword or title. The website is in Spanish only. 

Foolkit: the free legal toolkit

Foolkit is a free guide to Australian legal resources compiled by Australian lawyer Andrew Rogers and aimed at practitioners and the public. For lawyers the site has sections providing links to key resources for each Australian state including legislation, court rules and cause lists, management resources and resources arranged by legal topic eg. family, business, criminal and employment law. Pages aimed at the public provide information on issues such as finding a lawyer, accessing legal aid and a guide to the legal system.

The World’s Abortion Laws

Continually-updated interactive map of global abortion laws, produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights, a non-profit legal advocacy organisation based in the United States. The map is colour-coded to show how restrictive or liberal each jurisdiction’s abortion regime is, and further details are available when users click on a country. The ‘In Focus’ feature provides the text of abortion provisions for 56 key jurisdictions. The map is downloadabe in pdf format. The interactive version has a search facility and a country comparison tool.

Interinstitutional register of delegated acts

Online register tracking the progress of EU delegated acts (a type of subsidiary legislation) and providing access to associated documents. Users can search planned delegated acts to see which procedural stage has been reached and download associated documents, such as draft delegated acts, meeting agendas and meeting minutes; search results can be filtered by policy area, status and other criteria. A list of delegated acts is also available, together with a list of the legislative acts to which they relate; these can also be filtered.

UN Women's Family Law Database

This database maps laws from around the world relating to women’s status in the family and society. Launched in July 2018, it is under development by the Global Women's Leadership Project (GWLP) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, in association with UN Women. In its first phase the database covers the laws of African, European and Latin American jurisdictions as well as Israel, India and Pakistan; work is continuing on Middle Eastern jurisdictions.

CRIN: Child Rights International Network

CRIN is a UK-based non-profit organisation engaged in research, policy and advocacy in the field of children’s rights. Its work ifocuses on the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The Library section of the CRIN website includes a collection of UN documentation, a legal database and information about rights organisations. The legal database contains case summaries, national legislation, constitutions, treaties, standards, resolutions and other material on the subject of children’s rights; it is searchable by CRC article number, country and other criteria.

Red de Boletines Oficiales de la República Argentina

Gateway to all the Argentinian official gazettes: the gazettes of the Republic of Argentina, the Federal District of Buenos Aires (Ciudad de Buenos Aires) and the twenty-three Argentinian provinces (Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chaco, Chubut, Cordoba, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Salta, San Juan, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego and Tucuman).The government of each of these jurisdictions has its own official gazettes, in it publishes legislation and other official material.

Antigua & Barbuda Laws

Collection of legislation from Antigua and Barbuda, provided by the Ministry of Legal Affairs. Many of the acts available on the site are reproduced from the Revised Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, the periodic official compilation of acts in force (these acts have chapter numbers); others are acts as passed, from the Antigua and Barbuda Official Gazette. Acts can be browsed by title, or by volume of the Revised Laws; there is also an index by year, but this is much more limited in scope.

Research Guide on Global Health Law

Online guide to global health law written by Julienne E. Grant , Reference Librarian/Foreign & International Research Specialist at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Library. The guide was written in 2023 and updates an earlier guide which focused on international health law. The guide is on the Globalex Website, made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. Global health law is an emerging area within the field of public international law.

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