Issue 5: May 2015

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ConstitutionNet Analyses from the Field
	Honduras: Term Limits Drama 2.0 - how the Supreme Court declared the Constitution Unconstitutional David Landau	Sri Lanka: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution: from start to finish Asanga Welikala	Thailand’s next post-coup constitution: The dictatorship of the ‘good people’? Saksith Saiyasombut	Bottom-up approaches to constitutional implementation: a civil society perspective from Zimbabwe David Tinashe Hofisi
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What we are reading this month
	Rwanda: petitions for Constitutional Amendment to allow President Kagame's Third Term	Term limits could stave off crisis in Burundi	Bulgaria: Constitutional Amendment Proposal on Judicial Reform	Constitutional Amendment Proposals from Eastern Ukraine vis-à-vis the Minsk Agreement

Africa	Kenya: Gender Commission Urges AG to Publish Constitutional Amendment Bill Muslims petition Liberian parliament against Christian state proposal Constitutional Amendment Bill tabled in Ugandan Parliament Liberia: Referendum to be held in May 2016 on Proposals approved at the Constitutional Conference in Gbarna Women MPs challenge the Amendment Bill to the Kenyan Constitution on the indefinite postponement of the one-third Gender Rule Burundi: Constitutional Court upholds president’s controversial third-term bid
Asia and the Pacific	Thailand: Charter drafters want final say on amending articles Thai Cabinet proposed 129 revisions to the CDC's draft constitution Taiwan: Constitutional Amendments Committee includes labour and environmental rights in the draft NRC proposes referendum on new Thai Constitution 19th Amendment to Sri Lanka Constitution comes into force today President Sirisena might dissolve Parliament if 20th Amendment talks on electoral reform fail in Sri Lanka National Human Rights Commissioner says New Thai Constitution disempowers people Turkmenistan Considers Constitutional Amendment to Extend Presidential Rule
Europe	Ukraine: Constitutional Amendment on decentralization is "70% ready" Donbass Republics Propose Ukraine's Non-Aligned Status in Constitution Bulgaria: Ruling Majority Holds Consultations on Constitutional Amendments for Judicial Reform
North Africa/Middle East	Iraqi Kurdistani Parliament confirms the members of the Constitution Drafting Committee

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