We all expect that a product under normal or reasonable conditions of use will not present any risk or at least minimal risks. To this effect, the supplier of a product usually offers a series of guarantees to ensure that said risks will be compatible with the use considered acceptable thereof and consistent with a high level of protection for the safety and health of the people who use or consume such products.

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Summary: LAWS, DECREES, AGREEMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE JUNE 2019

Human trafficking is a violation of human rights that affects millions of people around the world, without distinction of race, sex, age, religion, nationality, economic status, etc. and unfortunately our country is not exempt from being affected by this problem. Therefore, in order to have an adequate legal framework to combat trafficking in persons, Nicaragua in 2015 approved Law 896, Law against Trafficking in Persons, which was published in La Gaceta Official Gazette No. 38 of 25 February 2015, this in accordance with the constitutional mandate that provides that no one should be subjected to servitude and slavery and trafficking of any nature, are prohibited in all its forms.

In this globalized world in which we live, it is very common for companies to send their employees from one country to another, either to work for a company within the same group or for another one. In this article we will explain, from the Nicaraguan law’s point of view, the legal aspects that companies should know when deciding the legal strategy to be used for the assignment of one or more employees being transferred to Nicaragua from another country.

Copyright is the rights that creators have over their literary, artistic, musical or scientific works. Copyright protection covers only expressions, but not ideas, procedures, methods or mathematical concepts. The right comes into existence with the creation of the work and not by its registration as such its registration is merely optional and declarative. Unregistered works are protected since their creation.