civil
... judges are sworn in by monarch for three-year terms; Judicial Committee of Privy Council in London is final court of appeal for civil cases; Shariah courts deal with Islamic laws (2006
www.exxun.com/Brunei/d_gv.html
civil
civil and criminal law based on Roman law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/d_gv.html
civil
based on French civil law system and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/BurkinaFaso/d_gv.html
civil
based on German and Belgian civil codes and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Burundi/d_gv.html
civil
... Burundi's GDP grew around 5% annually in 2006-07. Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/e_ec.html
civil
... into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off almost 13 years of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a ceasefire, which was not ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
civil
primarily a civil law mixture of French-influenced codes from the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) period, royal decrees, and acts of the legislature, with influences of customary law and ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/d_gv.html
civil
based on French civil law system, with common law influence; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/d_gv.html
civil
... it faces many of the serious problems facing other underdeveloped countries, such as a top-heavy civil service and a generally unfavorable climate for business enterprise. Since 1990, the government has embarked ...
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/e_ec.html
civil
based on English common law, except in Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
www.exxun.com/Canada/d_gv.html
civil
... General Francois BOZIZE, who established a transitional government. Though the government has the tacit support of civil society groups and the main parties, a wide field of candidates contested the municipal, legislative ...
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/a_fg.html
civil
Chad, part of France's African holdings until 1960, endured three decades of civil warfare as well as invasions by Libya before a semblance of peace was finally restored in 1990. The ...
www.exxun.com/Chad/a_fg.html
civil
based on French civil law system and Chadian customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/Chad/d_gv.html
civil
... hundreds of thousands of Darfur residents into Chad; Chad remains an important mediator in the Sudanese civil conflict, reducing tensions with Sudan arising from cross-border banditry; Chadian Aozou rebels reside in ...
www.exxun.com/Chad/i_ti.html
civil
... arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under ...
www.exxun.com/China/a_fg.html
civil
based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statutes; constitution ambiguous on judicial review of legislation; has not accepted compulsory ICJ ...
www.exxun.com/China/d_gv.html
civil
... president and four vice presidents represented the former government, former rebel groups, the political opposition, and civil society. The transitional government held a successful constitutional referendum in December 2005 and elections for ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/a_fg.html
civil
Constitutional Court; Appeals Court or Cour de Cassation; Council of State; High Military Court; plus civil and military courts and tribunals
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/d_gv.html
civil
... Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a democratically elected government took office in 1992. A brief civil war in 1997 restored former Marxist President Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO, and ushered in a period ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/a_fg.html
civil
chief of state: President Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO (since 25 October 1997, following the civil war in which he toppled elected president Pascal LISSOUBA); head of government: Prime Minister Isidore MVOUBA (since 7 ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/d_gv.html
civil
... Bank and the IMF. However, the reform program came to a halt in June 1997 when civil war erupted. Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO, who returned to power when the war ended in October ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/e_ec.html
civil
refugees (country of origin): 46,341 (Democratic Republic of Congo); 6,564 (Rwanda) IDPs: 48,000 (multiple civil wars since 1992; most IDPs are ethnic Lari) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/i_ti.html
civil
based on Spanish civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/d_gv.html
civil
... the peace accord in December 2003 after a three-month stalemate, but issues that sparked the civil war, such as land reform and grounds for citizenship, remained unresolved. In March 2007 President ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/a_fg.html
