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Estonia is acceding to a convention protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse
The Ministry of Justice has sent the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the draft for accession to the Lanzarote convention protecting children from sexual exploitation and abuse for the Government to approve the draft. Acceding to a convention is helping to protect children even more in case of cross-border crimes. 
The bulk of Estonian legislation is available in English from this year
A project, which lasted for four years, ended in 2014 in the course of which sworn translators translated all Estonian acts into English while being coordinated by the Ministry of Justice.
Volume of international judicial cooperation grows considerably every year
19.05.2014. The volume of international judicial cooperation grows considerably every year, as increasingly more Estonians are living abroad and there is more communication both in civil and criminal proceedings
Expulsion is more frequently applied as supplementary punishment
15.05.2014. It came evident from the analysis conducted by the Ministry of Justice that courts impose on foreigners who have committed criminal offences in Estonia more frequently expulsion as supplementary punishment and also apply in this connection prohibitions on entry up to several years.
The Minister of Justice thinks voting age should be lowered
Today at an international conference the Minister of Justice Andres Anvelt claimed to support the lowering of voting age as pertaining to local government elections