The report that ranks Uganda at number 117 globally out of 128 countries, making it the worst performing country in the East African region with Rwanda ranked the best, followed by Tanzania at 93 and Kenya at 102 respectively.
The annual report released in Washington has its rankings based on eight factors including constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, and criminal justice.
The scores are derived from over 130,000 household surveys and 4,000 legal practitioner surveys across the globe.
The top performing countries globally in upholding justice and rule of law include Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Austria, and Canada.
Settling Investment Disputes Would Boost Latin America’s Economic Recovery
Most governments need to improve their reputation and business climate, positioning their countries for an investment-led revival. Busy shopping streets in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Cris Faga/NurPhoto via Getty Images
As the world struggles to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American governments are missing opportunities to attract foreign investors crucial to an eventual economic rebirth. One of them is to settle old investment disputes sooner rather than later.
Latin America was the world’s only region to register zero economic growth in 2019, on average. Then it experienced the largest relative drop in real GDP of pandemic-driven 2020 – a collapse of at least 7% versus an emerging-markets average contraction of less than 3%. Chances are that the nature of the ongoing recovery will be neither inclusive nor sustainable, with the return to mediocrity featuring mostly jobs created in the undergr
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Covid-19 has worsened a shaky rule of law environment
A protester chants slogans in front of police officers in riot gear during a demonstration in Istanbul on 26 March 2021 against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international accord designed to protect women from violence.
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A protester chants slogans in front of police officers in riot gear during a demonstration in Istanbul on 26 March 2021 against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international accord designed to protect women from violence.
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Since the global pandemic struck just over a year ago, evidence strongly points toward a deterioration of already worrisome trends regarding the rule of law worldwide. This matters because the rule of law is the essential foundation for ensuring accountability of both government and private actors, just laws that protect fundamental rights, open government, and accessible justice.
The Wretched Refused: How US asylum policy has failed Venezuelan economic refugees
The Wretched Refused: How US asylum policy has failed Venezuelan economic refugees
April 6, 2021
“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
Today, US asylum policy is a far cry from the open approach described in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty, a universal symbol of justice and freedom.
The United Nations, via the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol, defines a refugee as a person who is “unable or unwilling to return to his or her home country, and cannot obtain protection in that country, due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” The United States Congress incorporated this definition into US immigration law in the