Carlos Lusverti* Versión en español, aquí. What do Burundi, Libya, Myanmar, South Sudan and Venezuela have in common? All of them have been the focus of independent investigation mechanisms established by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate serious human rights violations occurring in these countries. Regarding Venezuela, in 2019 the Council adopted resolution 42/25 establishing an Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM), which is an international investigative body […]
Ursula Indacochea* Versión en español aquí. On May 1, 2021, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador resolved -as the first act in its first session- to remove all the magistrates and alternate magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber and the Attorney General of the Republic from their positions, and to directly appoint their replacements, placing in these positions a group of […]
Ursula Indacochea Prevost* Versión en español aquí. Last Wednesday, March 16, a public hearing was held before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to address the situation of judicial independence in El Salvador. In it, the petitioning organizations presented to this international body a reading of various decisions, facts and arbitrary reforms that occurred […]
Carlos Lusverti* Leer en español aquí. On January 19, 2022, the Venezuelan National Assembly, whose members were elected in the disputed elections of December 2020, adopted a new law that will affect the Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, TSJ). On its face, the law does not comply which international human rights standards on judicial independence. The Venezuelan Supreme […]
Adriana García García* In the mid-17th century, the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes used the image of a biblical monster, the Leviathan, to illustrate the power of the State and its function of maintaining social order. It has since remained a symbol of fear-invoking power and unmatched sovereign strength. The foundation for the potentially monstrous power […]
Daniel Kempken* Leer versión en español aquí. China’s new Rule of Law Concept contradicts in central points the internationally established conception of the Rule of Law. The Chinese proposal stands for rule by law. These ideas should be countered in the international debate as well as by further promoting the current Rule of Law model […]
Ursula Indacochea** y Sonia Rubio Padilla*** he night of Saturday, May 1, 2021, when the Salvadoran Congress decided to mortally wound the country’s justice system, could be a long night, one of those that darken with the passage of time. But no night lasts forever. President Nayib Bukele and the deputies of his political party […]
Daniel Kempken* La corrupción es un factor de inestabilidad en todo el mundo que sólo puede combatirse con un poder judicial independiente. La implementación de los enfoques prometedores dela Convención de la ONU contra la Corrupción (CNUCC) debería ser reforzada por la comunidad internacional. Para ello, se puede aprovechar una próxima sesión especial de la […]
Hannah Jane Ahern** and Ursula Indacochea*** On February 1, 2021, Judge Erika Lorena Aifán Dávila, judge for the First Criminal Court of First Instance, Na and Crimes against the Environment of the department of Guatemala with competence to hear High Risk Proceedings, Group D, issued an arrest warrant against former judge Mynor Mauricio Moto Morataya, […]
Santiago Martínez Neira* La independencia del Poder Judicial en Venezuela está profundamente erosionada y su reconstrucción institucional es urgente. En estas líneas, se van a reconstruir algunos sucesos clave que han minado la independencia judicial y han hecho que el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) se convierta en un instrumento político del oficialismo y un […]
Justicia en las Américas 