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PROHIBITION ACT FOR EARLY CHILD MARRIAGE (2006)

2019
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 came into force on 1 November 2007 in India. In October 2017, Supreme Court of Indiagave a landmark judgement criminalizing sex with a child bride, hence removing an exception in India’s criminal jurisprudence, which had until then accorded legal protection to men who raped their minor wives.UNICEF defines ...
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Prohibition of terrorist acts in international humanitarian law

International Review of the Red Cross, 1986
This paper deals with the provisions of contemporary international humanitarian law which prohibit “terrorist acts”, commonly referred to, simply, as “terrorism”.Since the paper is mainly of a descriptive nature, experts in international humanitarian law will learn little that is new.
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Chapter 13. Specifically prohibited acts in occupied territory

2009
This chapter examines two specific prohibited acts in occupied territory: deportation or forcible transfer of protected persons; and forced labour. With respect to the former issue, there is ample body of case-law, which is derived both from the international jurisprudence and from national case-law, which has engendered complex doctrinal discourse on ...
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Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits limiting healthcare coverage.

Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1994
With the enormous increase in the cost of healthcare, especially for catastrophic illnesses, employers have begun to modify their healthcare insurance plans to limit the amount of coverage an employee can receive for treatment of a particular illness, such as AIDS and its related illnesses.
L A, Laddaga, M A, Roney
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The Virginia Prohibition Act

Virginia Law Review, 1917
Lindsay Rogers, T. B. Benson
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Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

In 1807 Congress passed a law banning the importation of slaves to the United States. The law went into effect on January 1, 1808. This act ended largescale importations of slaves into the United States. In the eight years before the law made the trade illegal, the United States imported about forty thousand new slaves from Africa.
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National Prohibition: The Volstead Act Annotated and Digest of National and State Prohibition Acts

California Law Review, 1924
Bartley C. Crum, Arthur W. Blakemore
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Prohibitive Policy: Implementing the Federal Endangered Species Act

Michigan Law Review, 1983
Robert F. Coulam, Steven Lewis Yaffee
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Driftnet Prohibition Act 1991

International Journal of Estuarine and Coastal Law, 1991
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Sweden: Marine Dumping Prohibition Act

International Legal Materials, 1972
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