The purpose of this article is to make visible and analyze the political, institutional, and bureaucratic-administrative framework involved in the consolidation of the electoral strength of the immigrant population residing in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In this province, since 1999, the automatic registration of foreigners who meet l...
Published in The Law & Ethics of Human Rights
Major online platforms deploy an array of policies and data-driven legislative and enforcement mechanisms, transforming economic, social, and technological powers into political might. While platforms use private law to legitimate the exercise of this form of power, the novel political relations and tools have a tremendous public impact, both on in...
The American Convention on Human Rights, article 23.2, points out a series of specific assumptions through which the States are granted the power to regulate their citizens’ exercise of political rights. Among their possibilities is the restriction of those due to convictions from competent judges in the context of criminal proceedings. Based on th...
The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the origin of the resistance that Western, Latin American and specifically Mexican women faced to be recognized as citizens and thus move into the public sphere. In this regard, will the existence and subsistence of a patriarchal system be the obstacle to overcome so that women can enter the p...
At first glance, the competence of the PGN in the disciplinary jurisdiction and its procedural tradition interpreted in the Colombian ius puniendi jurisprudence, is in harmony with the international legal standards. Nevertheless, after looking through the national and international decisions that determine the reach of the Ministerio Público, in th...
Political rights are, in essence, the manifestation of power in citizens. Talking about political rights is not only about the right to choose and be elected, but about a catalog of prerogatives that the principle of participatory democracy demands and inserts. This article is an analysis of the treatment of Political Rights in the Colombian State ...
The article presents a study on whether the regulatory and jurisprudential provisions of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal that affect the political rights of transgender people comply with inter-American Human Rights standards. Likewise, it addresses the path that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal should have taken when making the corresponding decision...
The end of colonial rule in Spanish America posed difficult questions regarding the political organization of the newly sovereign states. In this respect, the constitutional project presented by Simón Bolívar to the Second National Congress of Venezuela, which met in Angostura in 1819, insisted that the country should be under the control of a cons...
This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT), political instability and violence, and international protocols on global carbon emissions. Our empirical analysis used archival data for 146 economies from 1996 to 2019. The study’s estimates are also based on subsamples from the Organization for Economic Co-operat...
Published in Białostockie Studia Prawnicze
Slovenia is one of the European Union Member States which disproportionately restricted political rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the new government of Prime Minister Janez Janša came to power in March 2020, the anti-government and anti-lockdown protests have been taking place across the country. The pandemic-related restrictions have be...
