Barbados has signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the "Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships"). Read the full press release here.
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Barbados has signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the "Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships"). Read the full press release here.
Brazil has signed the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships (the "Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships"). Read the full press release here.
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On 14 March 2025, UNCITRAL RCAP and the Department of Justice of the Government of Hong Kong SAR, China will co-organize the Conference on Climate Change and International Trade Law. This one- day conference will consist of panel discussions covering the key takeaways of recent UNCITRAL colloquiums, sustainable supply chains (including PPs, PPPs and the CISG), insolvency and dispute prevention and settlement. Please click here to register for in-person or virtual participation. More details are available here.
At its fifty-seventh session, in 2024, the Commission noted the emergence of new types of assets that could be used as collateral in international finance (including digital assets, data, verified carbon credits and crop receipts) as well as the development of new international financing practices. The Commission also noted legislative efforts by international and regional organizations to address transactions involving such assets as well as the evolving legislative approaches of States to legally characterize those new types of assets. It thus requested the UNCITRAL secretariat to organize a colloquium to clarify and refine various aspects of possible future work in the area. Read more here.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seen after his visit to the Exhibition Fair at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), taking place in Istanbul, on 23-24 May.