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by Kelly Buchanan on October 2, 2020 at 6:00 pm

(Oct. 2, 2020) On September 18, 2020, the governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro sanctioned Law No. 9,014, which provides that instances or evidence of domestic violence against women, children, adolescents, people with disabilities, or elderly people, in condominium units must be communicated to the condominium managers (síndicos) or other condominium administrators, who [… […]

by Charlotte Stichter on September 18, 2020 at 6:03 pm

(Sept. 18, 2020) Law No. 107 of July 29, 2020, a new law creating a Parliamentary Investigative Commission to investigate the activities of family-type communities providing care for minors, entered into effect in Italy on September 12, 2020. Mandate of the Commission The role of the Commission is to investigate the current situation of minors [… […]

by Barry Lerner on July 6, 2020 at 4:30 pm

(July 6, 2020) On July 8, 2020, a regulation containing amendments to a 2007 ministerial decree establishing measures to protect minors from sexual exploitation and abuse and creating the Observatory for the Fight against Pedophilia and Child Pornography will enter into effect in Italy. The new regulation, Decree No. 62 of April 15, 2020, primarily [… […]

by Barry Lerner on January 28, 2020 at 2:30 pm

(Jan. 28, 2020) On December 26, 2019, the president of Brazil promulgated a new law passed by the Brazilian Congress that criminalizes instigation to self-harm. The new law, Law No. 13,968, amends article 122 of the Penal Code to modify the crime of incitement to suicide and to make it a crime to induce or [… […]

by Barry Lerner on December 30, 2019 at 2:30 pm

(Dec. 30, 2019) On November 27, 2019, the Norwegian Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a man for aiding and abetting the gross abuse of a dependent by neglecting to protect the children from their abusive mother, and increased the sentence from two years and six months’ imprisonment to three years’ imprisonment. (Norwegian Supreme Court, [… […]