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Is this Nigeria of our dream? (7)

RECENT accounts by historiographers are enriching information that indeed, through all these years, many more Filipinos participated in efforts at drafting the highest law of the land for social ordering or nationhood. Reference is not only to the 1899 Malolos Constitution, the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution, the 1943 Japanese Constitution, the 1973 Constitution and the 1987 Constitution but also to the continuing quest for nationhood via a highest law of the land during the most trying times.

The crafting of the Indian Constitution brought together an impressive team of 299 individuals, often overshadowed by the more prominent figures like Dr Ambedkar and Dr Rajendra Prasad. Despite this, the significant role of 36...

Enduring Political Structure: Imperative of Structural Reform (7)

May 31, 2023 - South Sudan, June 2023 Monthly Forecast : Security Council Report

Ignoring calls to stop interfering in the domain of parliament, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday stopped operationalisation of a bill aimed at clipping the powers of the chief justice. The lawmakers on Monday passed for the second time the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill 2023 to dilute chief justice’s power to take suo motu action and form a panel of judges for hearing of cases.

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“It’s a game-changing moment, like when women won the right to vote,” said Antonia Orellana, 31, who is running as a candidate in the capital, Santiago. A new constitution for Chile emerged during an anti-government uprising in October 2019, when calls for equality and fair access to health, pensions and education broadened to a demand for an overhaul of the entire political framework. The current constitution – drawn up in 1980 during the Pinochet dictatorship and chiefly a...

‘A game-changing moment’: Chile constitution could set new gender equality standard Charis McGowan in Santiago © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters Women’s rights activists in Chile say that the country’s new constitution will catalyze progress for women in the country – and could set a new global standard for gender equality in politics. In a two-day vote this weekend, Chileans will elect a 155-strong citizens’ assembly to write a new co...

<i>I shall not die, these seeds Ive sown will save</i><i> My name and reputation from the grave <br> And men of sense and wisdom will proclaim</i> <i>When I have gone, my praises and my fame!</i> -Persian poet Ferdo...