Argentina
Dictatorships block CADAL’s application for UN consultative status
Last May 28th, the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations considered the applications for consultative status of more than a hundred organizations. CADAL’s was the only application closed after being subjected to a roll call vote by request of the delegate of Cuba. Gabriel Salvia, head of CADAL, stated that “the rejection of our organizations’ request for consultative status is another example of who rule the UN”.
03-07-2014 | Statements
Declaration in support of Manuel Cuesta Morúa, spokesperson of Arco Progresista in Cuba
23-05-2014 | Statements
CADAL’s Support to the Constitutional Consensus in Cuba
Among the initiatives that CADAL’s Puente Democrático Program has been developing in favor of political opening in Cuba, those that stand out are the contributions about the country’s institutions in the context of democratic transition. One of these was the publication of the book “Elementos de Teoría Constitucional: una propuesta para Cuba” by jurist Ricardo M. Rojas, and the proposal by the analyst Aleardo Laría on the adoption of a parliamentary system.
04-03-2014 | Statements
La Pampa, the District with the Most Competitive Primaries
The internal competitiveness of the 2013 primary elections (PASO) was very low, indicating that parties/alliances remain far from a political opening that involves citizens in the selection of candidates for general elections. In that regard, with the purpose of evaluating compliance with the objectives of the law which enabled the PASO elections to take place, the following is an index that measures the competitiveness of the primaries this year.
Por Adrián Lucardi, Gabriel Salvia y Lara Jeich
03-09-2013 | Documents
Barómetro Legislativo 2012-2013 - Executive Summary
Por Adrián Lucardi, Gabriel C. Salvia y María Delia Porta
01-09-2013 | Articles
Contract with the Bertelsman Foundation
The contracts’s basic purpose is the translation of the Transformation Index 2014 to Spanish, which is elaborated by the Foundation Bertelsman with the cooporation of CADAL, to make the Transformation Index’s content more accesible for whole Latin America. With a path of life of 35 years, the Bertelsman Stiftung is a private, impartial foundation based in the locality Gütersloh, Germany, founded by Reinhard Mohn. The agreement was signed by Hauke Hartmann, Senior Project Manager of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, and Gabriel Salvia, president of CADAL.
14-08-2013 | Statements
CADAL nominated the Ladies in White for the United Nations Prize in Human Rights
Por CADAL | Libros
31-07-2013 | Statements
Without justice, there are no rights
CADAL – the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America- decided to connect the “popular initiative for independent justice and the defense of our rights“, promoted by Daniel Alberto Sabsay and Iván José María Cullen, with various organisations of the civil code. CADAL agrees with the abolishment of the mentioned laws, which are incumbent upon the Federal Congress. In this vein one prevents the arising partisanship of the justice and with that, the destruction of the Republic.
31-07-2013 | Statements
CADAL supports the Parliamentary Statement for Democracy in Cuba
The Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) adheres to the declaration promoted by parliamentarians for democracy in Cuba.
22-07-2013 | Statements
10 years after the Cuban Black Spring and on occasion of Cuba’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva
To mark the tenth anniversary of the crackdown in Cuba, which resulted in the arrest of 75 peaceful dissidents and concerning the execution of three Cubans who, without causing injury to others, hijacked a boat with the intention to emigrate, the Puente Democratico Program of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) publishes the communication appropriately directed to Civil Society Section at the UN Human Rights Council with regards to the Universal Periodic Review of Cuba to be held during the month of May
18-03-2013 | Statements
The Executive Committee celebrated its last 2012 meeting
Among the topics discussed at the meeting, the planning of activities for the Institution’s 10th anniversary particularly stood out: Some of these were the fixing of an agenda and date for the Foro Latino Global 2013. The Directors of the Business, Advisory and Academic Councils, the Director of Finance and Administration, the Programmes Director, the Programme Coordinator and the General Director took part in the meeting.
05-12-2012 | Statements
Improving the Impact of Democratic Research Policy
The Network of Democracy Research Institutes recently organized a workshop at the Global Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Peru. The “Improving the Impact of Democratic Research Policy” workshop included presentations by the NDRI members Martin Butora (Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia), Gabriel Salvia (Centre for the Opening and Development of Latin America, Argentina) and Tanya Hamada (INCITEGov, Philippines).
30-10-2012 | Statements
A crisis in the human rights concept in the begining of the 21st century
Essential human rights principles say that for citizens ‘everything which is not forbidden is allowed’ while for the government ‘everything which is not allowed is forbidden’. But authoritarian states manage to turn these principles upside down both in law and it practice.
Por Yevgeny Zhovtis
24-10-2012 | Documents
The relationship between journalists and politicians in Latin America
In the framework of the Project Medioslatinos and the Konrad Adenauer Stifting's “Media and Democracy in Latin America” program, the Center for Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) and the Austral University's School of Communication agreed to keep track of current events to analyze the professional relationship between journalists and politicians in the region.
28-08-2012 | Statements
The Symposium on Non-Traditional Gas and Oil in Buenos Aires will join together executives from Latin America
The second edition of the Latin American Symposium on Non-Traditional Gas,
which will take place from September 3rd-5th in Buenos Aires, receives
institutional support from the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin
America (CADAL), and is sponsored by IBC with additional support from Acigra,
APPMA, Interame, CADAL, and CBHE. More information is available on their
website, www.gasnoconvencional.com
25-06-2012 | Statements
