You can now watch on-line the launch of Strategic Persistence, the new report on promoting human rights and democracy in China. The panel includes Louisa Coan Greve, East Asia program director for East Asia at the National Endowment for …

Want the latest news from the United Nations Democracy Fund? Their new electronic newsletter contains the latest on UNDEF’s incoming project proposals, and stories and photographs from the field — from Afghanistan to Somalia to Haiti and beyond — all …

The full transcript of the State Department webchat on New Directions for Democracy Promotion, is now available here, featuring the International Republican Institute’s Lorne Craner and the National Democratic Institute’s Ken Wollack.

Council on Foreign Relations- Research Associate, Middle East (Washington DC)

Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to increasing America’s understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The research associate will be …

Monday, February 2, 2009 A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Panel: Shirin Ebadi, Karim Sadjadpour, Daniel Brumberg

The Carnegie Endowment, in conjunction with the U.S. Institute of …

The continuing significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is reflected in the “diversity of struggles in which its approach and its reasoning” are adopted, writes Amartya Sen, and further indicated by “the extent to which authoritarian …

The Obama administration’s likely approach to democracy assistance remains a subject of speculation. Some observers suggest that in taking the oath of office last week Barack Obama “did more in one instant, as a minority candidate, to promote the …

Separate strategies for democracy promotion and human rights are needed to enhance prospects for political reform in China, a new report argues. Previous approaches to human rights in China have “ranged from confrontation to passivity”, but “rarely reflected a coordinated …

A high turnout seems likely in Iraq provincial elections on Saturday judging from yesterday’s voting by hospital doctors, prisoners, policemen, soldiers, and other special categories. Despite sporadic violence, the overall improvement in security will boost participation as voters elect …

A smart power approach to Africa on the part of the new Obama administration demands investment in “institutions of countervailing power”, including legislatures, civil society and media – and shift from the “uncritical embrace of autocrats,” according to a new …