December 20, 1989 Commission
The "December 20, 1989 Commission" was created by Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2016 with the objective of contributing to the clarification of the truth regarding the human rights violations that occurred during the invasion of the U.S. Armed Forces in the late 1980s. The commission is made up of five Panamanian citizens, all of whom are recognized for their record as human rights defenders. The main function of this commission is to investigate and compile information regarding the victims and human rights violations during the U.S. invasion. In addition, the Commission prepares reports and recommendations for reparations.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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