Issue 3, August 2013
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Highlights
Egypt:
- Proposed Amendments to Egypt’s 2012 Constitution in Arabic and English. Read analysis of the text from IDEA’s Zaid Al-Ali
Feature interview: Nepal
- Expert warns of the need for new approaches in the constitution building process as the date for electing country's second Constituent Assembly approaches. Full interview here!
Voices from the field: Tunisia’s embattled transition and Kenya’s rocky constitutional implementation
- Nidhal Mekki, Public International and Constitutional law expert at the University of Tunis looks at how and why Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly went from being a solution to becoming part of the problem in Tunisia's troubled transition. Read full article in French or English
- As Kenya's 2010 Constitution turns three amidst threats of assault, Mugambi Laibuta reflects on whether implementing the Kenyan Dream has become too costly. Full article.
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In the media this month
Analyses
- Unpacking Fiji's new Constitution
- Why experts fear new assault on Kenya's Constitution
- Egypt's Constitutional morass
- Quick reactions to Egypt’s new draft Constitution
- Why proposed post 2012 Egypt Constitution might empower Mubarak-era politicians
News
- Myanmar—Parliament says constitutional review to remain confidential
- Fiji—Final version of 2013 Constitution unveiled
- Egypt—Secularists to dominate final phase of constitution making process
- Sierra Leone—Begins work on long -awaited constitutional review
- Tunisia – CA suspends work on Constitution amid crisis
Country constitutional profiles
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Latest library documents
- Law 17(2013) on the organization of elections for the Constituent Assembly of Libya
- Final version of the 2013 Constitution of Fiji
- Draft Egyptian Constitution of August 2013 (Proposed changes to the 2012 Egyptian Constitution) (Arabic)
- Tunisia Interim Constitution of 16 December 2011
- Draft Tunisian political exclusion law, 2013
- Tunisian law on the organization of public authorities of 23 March 2011(Eng, Fr, Ar versions)
- Tunisian Law of 10 May 2011on the organization of the Constituent Assembly elections
- Decree setting the date for the election of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly
Events (recent and upcoming)
- South Sudan constitutional symposium, 26-28 August 2013
- Conference on Constitution Making in Africa: 6 September 2013
- Inter-regional Workshop on Regional Organizations, Rule of Law and Constitutional Governance, 16-17 October 2013
- Fifth Asian Constitutional Law Forum, 18-20 October 2013
Vacancies and other opportunities in CBPs
New Staff
- International IDEA is pleased to announce the appointment of two eminent scholars and practitioners to its Constitution Building Processes Programme as Senior Technical Advisors, Professor Christina Murray of the University of Cape Town and Professor Tom Ginsburg of the University of Chicago.
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