Recent Sessions: ICLAD e-Learning
As part of ICLAD's launch of an Arabic-language e-Learning course on Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change, drafters in Jordan participated in the 2010 program. Sixty drafters, representing Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Barbados, Bahamas, St. Lucia, Pakistan and the Marshall Islands, participated in the 2007 session. Drafters from Ghana, Guyana, the Marshall Islands, Pakistan, St. Kittis and Nevis, Sudan, Trinidad and the United States participated in the 2006 session.

Country Alumni: Problems Addressed in Legislation Drafting Projects
Barbados: Employment discrimination against people with disabilities
Cambodia: Need for law to promote free and fair local elections
Canada: Lack of pay equity
Canada: Need for provincial health law to ensure an adequate health standard
Cook Islands: Employment discrimination on the basis of gender
Egypt: Lack of protections for child laborers
Estonia: Difficulty in enforcing money claims
Ethiopia: Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS
Ghana: Lack of access to adequate and affordable housing
Ghana: Need for law to clarify multiple marriage registration procedures
Guyana: Need for Sexual Offences Procedure Act
Guyana: Need to increase public input to and coordinate national economic development efforts
Hong Kong: Lack of adequate minimum wage
Indonesia: Lack of protections for child laborers
Italy: Need to promote environmental responsibility of Italian companies operating abroad
Kyrgyzstan: Lack of access to credit for micro-enterprises
Nigeria: Truancy and lack of access to education among child street hawkers
Pakistan: Transmission of thallassemia
Pakistan: Volatile substance abuse
Pakistan: Wasteful expenditures for wedding functions
Palau: Protections needed for sensitive marine areas
Rwanda: Lack of protections for rape survivors
South Africa: Need for funds for higher education students to finish studies
St. Helena: Ineffective implementation of existing Child Care Ordinance
St. Kitts & Nevis: Existing law failed adequately to address money laundering
Uganda: Unequal opportunity for women, ethnic minorities
United States: Need for Medicare coverage for treatments of chronic, degenerative conditions
Vietnam: Inadequate disposal procedures for municipal household waste

Spotlight: ICLAD e-Learning Alumni in Pakistan

Drafters from Pakistan participated in the 2004, 2006 and 2007 sessions, and completed 14 research reports and bills in conjunction with the course. Several of these course participants plan to use the course materials as teaching tools in classes for university students, government drafters, and civil society participants. Some now work with local universities and with the legislative strengthening program to develop on-going, in-country programs.