On March 28, 2024, a majority decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation held that Canada’s constitutional bill of rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (“the Charter”), applied against an Indigenous government’s residency requirements for election to the government’s Council. However, the majority also held that a
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Paradoxien und Anpassungsbedarf im BVerfGG
Die Diskussion um ein Parteiverbot ist begleitet von politischen Bedenken vor allem hinsichtlich eines Scheiterns, das bei einem Antrag gegen die Gesamtpartei zumindest nicht ausgeschlossen werden kann. Möglicherweise kommt es demnächst zu einer Neubewertung bei der Einstufung der Bundespartei durch das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der ausstehenden Berufungsentscheidung des OVG…
The Kovačević Case Revisited
On 20 March 2023 the Council of the European Union gave Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) green light to start accession negotiations. However, despite this political endorsement, BiH must fulfill the conditionality criteria, including a series of six judgments by the ECtHR relating to the predetermined ethnic keys for the Presidency and the House of Peoples,…
Power and Distribution in Global Health Governance
Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In countries around the world, various aspects of public…
Keine Spielchen mehr mit den verdeckten Stimmzetteln
Viele der Maßnahmen, die jetzt erwogen werden, um sich gegen das Szenario einer schrittweisen Machtübernahme der rechtsextremen AfD zu wappnen, betreffen das Parlamentsrecht. So wichtig und richtig es ist, den automatischen Zugriff der AfD auf diese Ämter zu beschränken oder Blockademöglichkeiten zu minimieren, so merkwürdig bleibt, dass in der Debatte ein Aspekt regelmäßig ausgeklammert…
Beyond the Blocs
On Monday, 25 March, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate release of hostages, as well as emphasizing the need to increase the provision and distribution of humanitarian aid. The Resolution was adopted 14-0, with the United States the only member to abstain. As the Security Council…
Closing the Accountability Gap
Consultants have been described as wizards – superior analytical minds who can turn around businesses – but also as pretenders who sell management fads and quasi-academic insights to businesses and governments. In the World Health Organization (WHO), one of our interviewees also described them as ‘priests’ – companies that are hired to transform the organization…
Rejecting Lip Service or Validating 1930s Family Values?
The Silent Disintegration of Global Health Governance?
With an estimated 6,9 million deaths and with its enormous scale of economic, social and political collateral damages, the COVID-19 Pandemic has created excessive momentum for re-considering the rules and procedures governing global health – or has it? In this blog contribution, I will discuss the promises and pitfalls of current law-making and law-amending efforts…
Towards Equity and Decolonization?
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic problems in the global health system. It revealed that the global health system perpetuates global health inequalities rather than effectively reducing them: The international community, particularly the countries of the Global North, failed to make COVID-19 vaccines widely available to the populations of the world’s poorest countries. This blog debate…