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El Foro Global América Latina y el Caribe 2023, realizado los días 21 y 22 de septiembre en Nueva York, tuvo como conferencista magistral al Premio Noble de Economía Joseph Stiglitz, quien resaltó la necesidad de escuchar a las nuevas voces latinoamericanas a la hora de reescribir las nuevas reglas y marcos de la globalización.

IDEA Internacional lamenta comunicar el fallecimiento de Alfonso Ferrufino, sénior advisor de la oficina de IDEA Internacional en Bolivia entre los años 2007 al 2021, y acompaña a su familia en este momento. 

Las elecciones subnacionales de 2023 en Colombia se realizarán en octubre marcadas por persistentes continuidades y, a su vez, cambios relevantes en la dinámica los actores políticos y en las reglas de juego institucionales y electorales. Estas variaciones cobrarán protagonismo en los comicios de octubre.

En los países de las Américas, la participación de las juventudes en la esfera política y partidaria suele verse limitada por barreras legales e institucionales como la edad mínima para presentarse a cargos, la falta de medidas de acción afirmativa y la exclusión de la toma de decisiones en los partidos políticos y otras organizaciones.

This case study examines several kinds of risks to electoral integrity present in Brazil and the role that the Electoral Justice plays in preventing and combating them. It addresses the risks, describing in each case the preventive policies as well as occasions on which some risks have materialized as threats. The paper also highlights some crisis management procedures in particular timely communication and proactive tools.

Centroamérica está sumida en su peor crisis en las últimas cuatro décadas.

Paraguay recently hosted the international seminar "Democracy and Elections, between Continuities and Ruptures", organized by International IDEA, with support from AECID and the European Union. The event brought together a diversity of political and social actors.

Kimana Zulueta-Fülscher, Senior Advisor at International IDEA's Constitution-Building Programme, hosts a conversation on the ongoing 2023 constitution-building process in Chile, and its relationship with the failed 2021-2022 constitution-building process. 

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En Paraguay, como en gran parte de los países a nivel mundial, existe el mito de que las personas jóvenes tienen “apatía” y no están dispuestas a participar en política. Nada más lejos de la realidad: las juventudes están detrás de los movimientos sociales que transforman el mundo.

La adopción en 2012 de la Declaración de principios globales para la observación y monitoreo no partidario realizado por organizaciones ciudadanas fue un hito en la historia de la observación electoral.

La observación electoral, tanto internacional como ciudadana, consiste en la evaluación de los procesos electorales con base en la normativa nacional y los principios internacionales para elecciones democráticas. La observación de elecciones puede tener impactos positivos, como el efecto disuasorio sobre el fraude o el fortalecimiento de la confianza ciudadana y de la credibilidad del proceso.

This year has been as disturbing as it has been enlightening for democracies in Latin America.

Political events in Peru and Brazil and troubling trends in Mexico and El Salvador offer a warning of what happens when party systems fail and outsider leaders take power promising to put an end to establishment corruption.

Democracy organizations co-leads of the youth democracy cohort (International IDEA, The European Partnership for Democracy, the European Youth Network and Africtivistes) call on civil society organisations and other stakeholders around the world to promote youth political participation as a bedrock of the summit for democracy process for the future.

International IDEA has just published new case studies on Mexico and Belgium as part of the ´

The Summit for Democracy is an initiative headed by the United States Government to discuss how to advance the Summit’s three broad themes: strengthening democracy and defending against authoritarianism; addressing and fighting corruption; and advancing respect for human rights.

It is with deep sorrow and heavy heart that we share the sad news of Dr Bassma Kodmani’s passing. A highly reputed political scientist and a professor of International Relations at Paris University, she was the founder and board member of the Arab Reform Initiative, which she had led as Executive Director.

The state of democracy in the Latin America and the Caribbean region is clouded by the global geopolitical context affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, a hard-hitting recession and the commercial tensions between China and the USA.

The storming of Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court as well as the deadly anti-government protests in Peru underline the challenges facing democracy in Latin America. Why are the legitimacy of governments being questioned? What is behind the increasing political polarization of the region? And are their grounds anywhere for optimism? 

As the political crisis in Peru worsens, Alicia del Aguila explores its roots. Key to understanding it are the political polarisation of recent years, tensions between the Central and Southern Andes, and the historical marginalisation of rural and indigenous people.

2023 will be complex and challenging for Latin America. The region will face an unfavourable international context in which it is expected, according to the IMF, that there will be a simultaneous slowdown of the three leading economies (United States, China, and the European Union), whose effect will be weak global economic growth of 2.7%, which could even fall below 2% according to its Director Kristalina Georgieva. A third of the global economy is forecast to be in recession this year.