Tag: Chile constitutional reform

• Thursday, May 5th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Chile's future constitution makes room for indigenous ancestral land rights

  

  Chile's Constituent Assembly Wednesday approved in a Plenary Session the right of indigenous peoples and nations to their lands, territories, and resources by 106 votes in favor, 37 against, and 10 abstentions.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Chile's to become “plurinational” state under new Constitution?

  

  Chile's Constitutional Convention has agreed to redefine the country as a “Plurinational State” which will also recognize the self-government of native peoples, it was announced Wednesday in Santiago.

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Chile is to become a “regional, multinational and intercultural State”, according to the new constitution

  

  Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for the country.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:22 UTC

  Chile's Constitutional Convention appoints Mapuche woman to chair it

  

  Mapuche leader Elisa Loncón, a Ph.D. in humanities holder from the Dutch University of Leiden, has been chosen Sunday to preside over the Constituent Convention which will re-write Chile's new Fundamental Law to replace the current text from 1980 passed under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Chilean referendum campaign to amend Pinochet constitution takes off

  

  Braving the pandemic, Chileans begin campaigning on Wednesday for a referendum on amending their dictatorship-era constitution -- for many a symbol of entrenched social and economic inequality.

• Sunday, December 1st 2019 - 01:07 UTC

  Rioting Chile forced to cancel the football season and motor rally activities

  

  The football federation in Chile has announced it is to cancel the rest of the season due to security concerns following weeks of anti-government protests. All matches were suspended when the violence began six weeks ago.

• Wednesday, March 7th 2018 - 06:08 UTC

  Chilean president presents constitutional reform a week before leaving office

  

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is ending her term with an ambitious proposal for a new constitution that would ensure equal pay for men and women and strengthen guarantees of the right to strike. Bachelet sent the proposal to Congress on Tuesday, just five days before she leaves office.