On 25 October 2021, following months of political unrest, the military staged a coup on the transitional order and took power—dissolving the civilian government, deposing the Prime Minister, and imposing a state of emergency.
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“Marea rosa”. Este es el término de moda para describir el actual momento político-electoral en América Latina. Si Lula da Silva se impone a Jair Bolsonaro en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones brasileñas el próximo 30 de octubre oiremos con profusión esta expresión. Para muchos analistas, el triunfo del presidente brasileño vendría a confirmar que la región se ha instalado en lo que antaño se conocía como “giro a la izquierda”.
On 17 August 2019, four months after President Omar al-Bashir was ousted, the revolutionary protest movement Forces for Freedom and Change and the Transitional Military Council signed a constitutional document to ferry Sudan through a transitional period to a civilian-led, democratic order. The signing of the Draft Constitutional Charter for the 2019 Transitional Period (the 2019 Constitutional Declaration) was met with jubilation on the streets and around the world.
Youth are the Cornerstone for the Hoped Democratic Transition of Sudan, that is why International IDEA Sudan’s programme is concentrating efforts to strengthen the role of young women and men in the Sudanese transition.
International IDEA’s Annual Review of Constitution-Building series provides a retrospective account of constitutional transitions around the world, the issues that drive them, and their implications for national and international politics.
El jueves 22 y viernes 23 de septiembre, expertos se reunirán en Nueva York para analizar la realidad de la región, en el contexto global. El encuentro se organiza junto a IDEA Internacional, con el apoyo de la Universidad de Fordham
Los resultados son claros. La opción rechazo triunfó con casi el 62% de los votos válidamente emitidos. Esto, además, con una participación electoral histórica en las últimas décadas, que ahora con voto obligatorio, llegó casi al 86%. Por supuesto, los datos aún son iniciales, pero ya nos entregan ciertas luces.
In South Sudan, Africa's youngest nation, women's political participation remains low when there are calls to have more women in positions of power globally. The Republic of South Sudan gained its independence on the 9th of July 2011 but slid into political violence within barely two years of its existence.
International IDEA Sudan’s programme celebrated the graduation of the first batch from the Young Women Democracy Academy (YWDA) on 9 August 2022.
With an aim to encourage a stable, acceptable and democratic constitutional settlement in Sudan, International IDEA Sudan is organizing an academic constitutional activity to engage Sudanese political actors, civil society and opinion-formers in constitution-building.
The Constitution Academy is an intensive, interactive, residential academy, with a mixture of lectures, seminars, Q&A, exercises and simulations. The training is delivered over eight days.
Assessing Sudanʼs Electoral Legal Framework provides an in-depth insight and analysis of Sudanʼs current legal framework for elections. It measures Sudanʼs legal electoral framework against a common international understanding of the principles, norms and obligations that define credible and democratic elections.
Democracy cannot prosper without democrats. The challenges facing the democratic transformation in Sudan are immense. This report signified the power-sharing intricacies that had been in place for over two years between the civilians and military.
The Young Women’s Democracy Academy (YWDA) is a three-month capacity-building programme dedicated to empowering young women between the ages of 18 and 24 with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance their political participation.
SANTO DOMINGO.- La región latinoamericana necesita una recuperación económica que le permita avanzar, para lo cual requiere de inversiones extranjeras de calidad, según Jorge Sahd, director del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Católica de Chile. Afirmó que América Latina será la que tendrá el menor crecimiento económico en su continente.
On the evening of 15 February 2022, reports emerged that key police and military officials in Djibouti were put under house arrest, reportedly amid fears of a coup d’état. This was the latest in the string of successful and attempted coups in Africa—from Mali to M
El encuentro que se desarrollará bajo un formato híbrido -presencial desde Funglode-, el miércoles 2 y el jueves 3 de marzo de 2022 desde las 9:00 a.m., hora dominicana, reunirá a calificados expertos y analistas internacionales, quiénes analizarán los principales desafíos y oportunidades para la gobernabilidad democrática, clima de negocios y desarrollo económico de América Latina.
CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ—Más de la mitad de los países de América Latina y el Caribe están mostrando señales de erosión democrática y en algunos casos se ven procesos de retroceso democrático y aviesos ataques a las instituciones, asegura el más reciente informe de IDEA Internacional.
On 6 August 2021 International IDEA, in partnership with the Law Faculty of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Corporación Humanas and Comunidad Mujer, held a virtual seminar on gender and rules of procedure in constituent processes.
Indigenous peoples in Chile have suffered dispossession and discrimination by colonizing forces, like many Indigenous peoples globally, and did not have a fair say in the development of successive constitutions establishing new political systems on their land.
El domingo pasado, 21 de noviembre, se realizó en Chile la elección presidencial, parlamentaria y de Consejeros Regionales (CORES). En concreto se escogieron 155 diputados, 27 senadores (la mitad del Senado) y 302 CORES a lo largo de todo el territorio nacional y los dos cantidatos que pasaron a segunda vuelta presidencial que se definirá el 19 de diciembre.