The Timor-Leste Legal Education Project, in partnership with The Asia Foundation and Stanford Law School, just launched a brand-new website that provides accessible, legal educational textbooks to help build knowledge in Timorese universities, government institutions, and NGOs. Recently, the project developed the first-ever legal textbooks based on Timorese laws, and are available on the new website in three languages: English, Portuguese, and Tetum.
In many Asian countries, including Bangladesh, cultural tradition dictates that property and assets are almost always registered in the name of a male member of the household, denying Bangladeshi women the change to gain collateral, needed to get bank loans to start businesses. Photo by Jon Jamieson.
