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Indigenous advocates reject Chile’s new draft constitution ahead of vote
1 year ago

Indigenous advocates reject Chile’s new draft constitution ahead of vote

Al Jazeera  

Sunday’s referendum will be the second time in as many years that Chileans have voted for a revised constitution. “We are 13 percent of the population,” said Alihuén Antileo Navarrete, a Mapuche lawyer elected to represent Chile’s Indigenous peoples on the council. She believes the draft on Sunday’s ballot enshrines values and ideas that “don’t belong in a constitution”, by …

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AIFF : Supreme Court Appoints Former Judge L Nageswara Rao For Considering Draft Constitution Of All India Football Federation
1 year, 7 months ago

AIFF : Supreme Court Appoints Former Judge L Nageswara Rao For Considering Draft Constitution Of All India Football Federation

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed its former judge Justice L. Nageswara Rao to take over the process of considering the draft Constitution of the All India Football Federation along with all suggestions, comments, and objections made by the stakeholders to the said Constitution. Accordingly, the court noted that it would be more appropriate for the matter to be considered …

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Does EWS quota violate Basic Structure? Constitution Bench asks Union, States, parties to ‘crystallise’ their thoughts by Thursday
2 years, 3 months ago

Does EWS quota violate Basic Structure? Constitution Bench asks Union, States, parties to ‘crystallise’ their thoughts by Thursday

The Hindu  

A Constitution Bench on Tuesday asked the Centre, States and petitioners to firm up a slew of concerns raised in the Supreme Court about granting reservation on a purely economic basis, one of them being whether it is a violation of the very basic structure of the Constitution to exclude Scheduled Castes, Tribes and some of the most impoverished, socially …

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I-league, not ISL, is India's top football competition - AIFF draft constitution
2 years, 6 months ago

I-league, not ISL, is India's top football competition - AIFF draft constitution

The Hindu  

Replacing the Indian Super League, the I-League could regain its status as the country's top-tier football competition, as per the draft constitution formulated by the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators. Point 33 of Article 1 of the draft states, "I-League is the seniormost top division league competition in India owned, operated and recognised by the AIFF." Point 58 of Article …

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'Unacceptable': Congress MP Anand Sharma on Telangana CM's call to draft new Constitution
2 years, 10 months ago

'Unacceptable': Congress MP Anand Sharma on Telangana CM's call to draft new Constitution

India Today  

Congress MP Anand Sharma has strongly opposed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s recent suggestion to draft a new Constitution, calling it a “trap” to undermine democracy in the country. — Anand Sharma February 5, 2022 KCR has favoured drafting a new Constitution in the wake of successive central governments allegedly taking away the powers of states and others. READ …

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Chileans vote for 155-member assembly to draft new constitution
3 years, 7 months ago

Chileans vote for 155-member assembly to draft new constitution

Al Jazeera  

The new constitution is aimed at addressing deep-seated social inequality that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019. Chileans are voting on Sunday in a second day of polls to elect 155 delegates to the Constituent Assembly, which will rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution in a bid to address deep-seated social inequality that sparked deadly protests in 2019. Forty-year-old university …

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