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PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REPRESENTS AFRICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AT IBERO-AMERICAN MEETING ON CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE
The President of the Constitutional Court of Angola, Justice Laurinda Prazeres, is taking part from 12 to 14 May, in Brazil, in the Ibero-American Conference on Constitutional Justice (CJCC).
The meeting will bring together representatives of constitutional justice bodies from Ibero-American countries with the aim of discussing contemporary constitutional challenges and practices, strengthening institutional dialogue and promoting cooperation and the sharing of experience in the field of constitutional justice.
Representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela are taking part in the event.
At the conference, Laurinda Prazeres, who is attending on behalf of the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa (CJCA), an organisation of which Angola is a permanent member, will speak on the independence of the Judiciary in Africa.
According to the programme, the event will comprise four thematic sessions. The first will be devoted to human rights, while the second will address matters relating to judicial independence and mechanisms for constitutional defence.
New technologies applied to the judiciary, climate justice and the rights of nature will be examined in the third and fourth sessions.
The Ibero-American Conference on Constitutional Justice is a forum for dialogue that brings together, every two years, judges and heads of constitutional bodies in closed sessions to discuss the main challenges and trends in constitutional justice.