Abortion in Latin America. More Than Criminalization, Not Yet Women’s Constitutional Right

Part VI Refugee Rights and Realities, Ch.49 National Constitutions and the Right to Asylum

The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law ◽

10.1093/law/9780198848639.003.0050 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Meili Stephen

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Refugee Convention ◽

Refugee Law ◽

Domestic Courts ◽

The World ◽

Constitutional Right ◽

International Refugee Law ◽

The Right ◽

Effective Use ◽

Over Time

This chapter studies the constitutional right to asylum, which until recently was a rather neglected backwater of international refugee law. This is due to a variety of factors, including the Refugee Convention’s domination of the refugee law regime, the weakness of the judiciary in many of the countries whose constitutions contain a right to asylum, and the non-humanitarian motivations for inclusion of that right in many constitutions. More recently, however, a combination of factors has breathed new life into the constitutional right to asylum in some countries. These factors include the limitations of the Refugee Convention, the rise in nationalism and anti-globalization, and the growing influence of refugee lawyers who are utilizing the constitutional right to asylum in domestic courts, particularly in Latin America. The chapter then traces the evolution of the constitutional right to asylum and considers how it has manifested itself in different countries and regions of the world over time. It also looks at recent strategic litigation in Latin America that has successfully utilized the constitutional right to asylum and may provide a blueprint for the effective use of such provisions in other countries.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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