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Yasuní: When Citizens Vote – Governments Must Listen

Ecuador voted. The people spoke. But the government is stalling. There are important new updates to the...

CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015

Make Voting Rights Universal

Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.

Photo of Yasuni rainforest provided by Jorge Espinosa

Yasunidos: ten years of determination prove people do have power

Back in 2013, we already spoke to Yasuni about a then newly proposed citizens’ initiative aimed at protecting...

What drives citizen participation?

For seven years, Dr Klaus Hofmann has been researching legal instruments of direct democracy worldwide for...

Ecuador: "The government does not want the people to take decisions themselves"

Super-election Day. On February 19 Ecuadors 12 million eligible people voted for a new President and a new...

“The government of Ecuador is quite anxious“

On Sunday 19 February 2017, Ecuador’s 12 million eligible people faced a super election day: Beyond electing...

Voting Until You Get The Result You Want

The excessive use of top-down popular votes across Latin America has become a sign of democratic weakness. ...