Nonprofit Organizations

I recently returned from an American Law Institute Advisers meeting regarding the drafting of the Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, held at ALI headquarters in Philadelphia. The project was originally a statement of principles of nonprofit law but has been converted to a traditional restatement. Much good work went into the drafting of the Principles, but it was eventually determined that a traditional Restatement would serve better than a statement of principles. The work to date on the Principles will be converted and adapted for restatement use.

The United Nations 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 56) featured as its priority theme this year "the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges."  This focus on rural women is long overdue, given that rural women comprise a quarter of the world's population.  Further, women provide 43% of the world's agricultural labor, and they produce half of the world's food for direct consumption.