Much has changed in recent months, and very abruptly. We spend much more time between our four walls than we would normally choose to spend. People who have children face suddenly the added task of finding out what to do with them all day long, caring for them and helping them to go through these […]
Paraguay’s educational context leaves much to be desired and now, due to the current COVID-19 health emergency and the subsequent suspension of face-to-face courses, schools and institutions find themselves proposing distance education alternatives. This new challenge adds up to a panorama that was already loaded with other challenges, such as the lack of Internet connectivity […]
The use of technology has become a world trend, with the argument of combating the new coronavirus and the pandemic it has generated. Although the application of technology may reinforce preestablished public health policies, it is worrying that it may also be used for mass surveillance purposes. The newspaper Última Hora reported on March 24 […]
This research presented by Paloma Lara Castro was carried out within the Global Network Initiative Fellowship and was published originally here. Emergency laws have historically been used to legitimize and amplify mass surveillance and control. Many countries have declared states of emergency to respond more effectively to the coronavirus pandemic, including Paraguay. As a GNI-Internews […]
The judicial investigation of the murder of young liberal Rodrigo Quintana at the headquarters of the Liberal Party exposed the implication of high leaders of the political power. The lawyers for the complaint insist that call logs can be used as evidence to clarify who gave the order to enter the party’s premises in the […]
Synthesis of the legal process carried out regarding the implementation of electronic ticketing Given the governmental decision to implement electronic ticketing, we have submitted a request for information and subsequently initiated a recurso de amparo so that they provide us with the requested information. We will detail below the steps and results of the process. […]
The bill “Which sanctions non-compliance with the measures disposed in the face of epidemiological alerts and in a state of declared health emergency” presented in the Paraguayan Congress on March 18, 2020 by Senator Pedro Santa Cruz, consists of 7 articles that propose to sanction with a fine “those who put at risk or affect […]
We are facing an extreme situation, never experienced by our generation, and the answers are coming from social mobilization and, mainly, from each government. In the era of information technology, its use is undeniably a part of the responses to this pandemic. However, neither in Paraguay nor in the region do we have the regulatory […]
Since the findings of the international operation “Luz na infância” (“Light in childhood”), led in Paraguay by the Public Ministry and the National Police for the prosecution of child pornography, it became clear that this type of abuse constitutes a problem with an international dimension. The scope has expanded with the irruption of new technologies […]
We welcome the action of Senator Pedro Santa Cruz in withdrawing the bill “Which sanctions non-compliance with the measures disposed in the face of epidemiological alerts and in a state of declared health emergency” that was presented on March 18, 2020. The bill was withdrawn at the extraordinary session of April 1, 2020. We understand […]
