Scores of cities around the nation operate under various consent decrees, on issues like housing, schools, the environment, voting rights and law enforcement.
More specifically, we looked at their rights to be consulted and to give their consent on several issues.
On the other hand, 12 to 27% of the client councils report that they have the right to consent on these issues.
This may be a reason for why such laws concerning parental consent on controversial issues related to adolescents are not uniformly applied, even among different regions of a same country.
Achieving all these aspects of consent is difficult, particularly in contexts where poor or marginalized groups are not commonly asked for consent on any issue.
While he expresses great confidence that he will enforce the terms of the consent decree, the one issue on which he did say he had concerns was how long the reforms would last.
Not surprisingly, they believe they can get what they want by merely holding out, and, because we assume we need their consent on the great issues, they are probably right.
In NSW, 16-year-olds can give sexual consent but cannot vote on issues such as abortion.
The study showed that the consent process developed based on issues highlighted in the rapid assessment facilitated recruitment of participants and increased their confidence that the genetic research would not fuel stigma.
Natan Doron, co-author of the report, said there was a "catastrophic lack of popular consent" on the global issue of climate change because campaigners were "ignoring real people and focusing on faceless institutions".
