Article 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...
Read MoreWhen in 2014, the District Court in Białystok dismissed the prosecutor's application to outlaw the association of the local football club's fans, in its ruling, it not only emphasised the fundamental value of associations in a democratic state...
Read MoreFinland has been called “the promised land of associations”. The Nordic country has an exceptionally high number of associations relative to its population, and almost every Finn belongs to one or more...
Read MoreThe ruling in the Movement for Quality Government case, which for the first time declared the annulment of a Basic Law, highlighted the importance of enshrining procedural constitutional norms within the "rules of the game" through the enactment of a Basic Law: Legislation. In short, Israel does not have a comprehensive, unified written constitution...
Read MoreAustralia is an international outlier in relation to the legal protection of freedom of association. As one of the only countries in the world without a national bill of rights, freedom of association is legally protected and regulated in Australia principally by the common law...
Read MoreThe final act of Mexican President López Obrador will be in collaboration with the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and the newly elected Congress, after the landslide victory of MORENA’s coalition last June. The lame-duck President seems as powerful as ever...
Read MoreIn China, freedom of association is primarily viewed as a political right embedded within the Constitution, with a focus on prioritizing broader public values of social stability and communal welfare...
Read MoreDespite its centrality as a fundamental constitutional principle and human right, the right to freedom of association (RFA) in Egypt is under-studied and often reduced to the situation of unions and syndicates in Egyptian law...
Read MoreSection 18 of the South African Constitution states that, ‘everyone has a right to freedom of association’ . Over the past 28 years the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa has sought to give meaning to this textually broad right...
Read MoreThe freedom of association is one of the human rights recognized under the 1995 Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Constitution. In practice, the enjoyment of the right is subject to various restrictions and limitations...
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