This is the executive summary of a report titled, Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consultation and Consent in Latin America, examining progress and challenges in this area in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Guatemala.
In this executive summary of the report titled Judicial Elections in Bolivia: An Unprecedented Event, we analyze the popular election of high-ranking judicial authorities in Bolivia.
Bolivia is the only country where—in one election so far, held in 2011—the members of the highest courts of justice (the Supreme Court of Justice, the Agro-Environmental Court, and the Plurinational Constitutional Court), as well as the members of the governing body that oversees judicial training (the Judicial Council), have been elected.
In this executive summary of the report titled, Judicial Independence in Ecuador’s Judicial Reform Process, we examine what has happened to judicial independence as part of the “citizen’s revolution” led by President Rafael Correa.
Ecuador is a country in which the rule of law has not been solidly developed. Because it has been politically unstable throughout its history, those in power have made the justice system part of the political arena. Accordingly, criticism of the justice system and proposals for its reform have multiplied in recent decades.
This is the executive summary a report, titled The impact of Canadian Mining in Latin America and Canada’s Responsibility, submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2014.
En este documento, elaborado por DPLF a solicitud de Oxfam, se sistematiza el marco jurídico internacional sobre el derecho a la consulta previa, libre e informada aplicable en los cuatro países de la región andina incluidos en el estudio. El informe presenta un panorama de la situación normativa y práctica de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas que se ponen en riesgo con la explotación de recursos naturales en sus territorios.
