Wednesday, May 26, 2010- 11:00a.m to 12:30p.m. One Year After Cairo: Has U.S. Engagement Improved the Prospects for Reform in the Arab World? Freedom House and the Project on Middle East Democracy(POMED) invite you to attend, “One Year After Cairo: …
Last week’s nuclear fuel swap deal between Brazil, Turkey and Iran highlights one of the new challenges which a new National Security Strategy will have to address – the emergence of several arriviste democracies which do not necessarily share the …
The U.S. is planning to work with Indonesia to advance democracy in Asia, an Obama administration official confirmed today.
One of the principal objectives of her recent trip to Jakarta was to determine “how our democracies can cooperate to support …
The issue of Islam’s relationship to democracy will be one of the principal themes of an important debate this week at Oxford University. Two of western Islam’s leading thinkers – Hamza Yusuf and Tariq Ramadan – will debate two of …
President Barack Obama’s speech at West Point anticipated some of the likely themes of the new National Security Strategy to be announced later this week. The administration is expected to highlight engagement and multilateralism at the core of an approach …
On June 20th 2009, Neda Agha Soltan, was shot in the heart by a sniper and bled to death on a Tehran street. She had been participating in a Green movement protest against the disputed presidential election and her …
The onus is on Kazakh’s government to reach a just conclusion to the case of a prominent human rights defender, a European parliamentarian said today. His report will give cause for concern to member states of the Organization for Security …
Azerbaijani civil society groups are urging international support for an investigation into torture cases in Azerbaijan, RFE/RL reports.
The initiative is aimed at “naming and shaming” those who commit torture, Institute for Peace and Democracy Director Leyla Yunus told …
Democracy and human rights activists are expressing concern at the imminent trial of Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, whose hearing is scheduled for this Sunday, May 23.
Hard-liners claim Shiva and her Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) …