The national and provincial elections in South Africa held on 29 May 2024 heralded a new era in South African politics. After 30 years in power, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority in Parliament with 40% of the national vote…
Read MoreCoups and executive self-coups (autogolpes) remain an important threat to democracy, as we recently saw in Bolivia. But evidence suggests they are less relevant today than in the past…
Read MoreLast September, elections were held in three of the five eastern German Länder. As expected, two populist political parties dominated the scene, emerging much stronger…
Read MoreSupport for illiberal, far-right political positions – typically expressed as anti-immigration, anti-women’s reproductive rights, and anti-sexual diversity rights – has been on the rise for a few years now in many parts of the Western world…
Read MoreOn 29 September 2024, elections to the National Council took place in Austria. The National Council is the first chamber of the Austrian Federal Parliament, whose 183 seats are elected by the federal citizens according to the principles of equal, direct, personal, secret and free suffrage…
Read MoreOn September 25, the powerful, Democrat-controlled US Senate Judiciary Committee convened a critical hearing to address the recent US Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity…
Read MoreThe Venice Commission is often involved in transition processes. During the Nineties, this body played an important role in assisting Central and Eastern European countries in the democratization processes following the collapse of the Communist regime…
Read MoreThe International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and the Venice Commission have a long-standing cooperation. They have a lot in common, especially the strong focus on democracy, rule of law, and human rights…
Read More2024 is the biggest election year in over a century, with citizens in 60 countries called to cast their votes. Indeed, countries holding national elections this year make up nearly half of the world’s population…
Read MoreArticle 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the principal guarantee of the right to freedom of association under the treaties of the United Nations, provides that…
Read MoreSlovakia is experiencing democratic backsliding. This post will focus on one of the measures the Slovak government is taking on that direction…
Read MoreFreedom of association, in the Peruvian legal system, is recognised in Article 213 of the Political Constitution of Peru of 1993, which states…
Read MoreThe Mexican Constitution recognizes freedom of association in article 9, but it does not define it. In more than one hundred years of the Mexican Constitution, this article has not been modified and there is no secondary law regulating it…
Read MoreThe Freedom of Association is widely considered a fundamental political right, central to enabling political participation in democratically organized societies...
Read MoreTo address the role played by the Inter-American System of Human Rights to strengthen democracy in the Americas and the Caribbean, it is essential to refer to its normative and jurisprudential precedents...
Read MoreThe European Convention on Human Rights affirms, in Article 11.1, that everyone has the right “to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association”, specifically recognising the right to form and to join trade unions...
Read MoreWhile the right to freedom of association (Vereinigungsfreiheit) as a fundamental right (Grundrecht) existed in the 1919 Weimarer Constitution, it was abolished by the Reichstag Fire Decree of 1933 and further undermined under National Socialist rule...
Read MoreOn August 1, 2024, a seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark judgment in the case of State of Punjab v. Davinder Singh, fundamentally altering the legal landscape concerning the reservation policies (a caste-based affirmative action system) for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in India...
Read MoreThis blog post examines the nature, scope, and rationale that underpin the right to freedom of association in Ireland. It is a Constitutional right, found in Article 40.6.1(iii) of the Irish Constitution...
Read MoreThe right to freedom of association is a major fundamental right in France since a landmark decision of the Constitutional Court in 1971. In this decision, the Court held not only that freedom of association was a constitutional right, but also that the Constitutional Court could overrule an Act of Parliament...
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