A leading Chinese democracy advocate and veteran of the 1989 Democracy Movement has been re-arrested by police, human rights groups reported today.
Liu Xianbin was arrested by police in southwestern Sichuan and charged with “subversion of state power” after more …
Talking of Pakistan’s civil society, check out Khudi – ‘Awakening’ in Urdu – a new social movement that aims to mobilize youth, students and other civil society groups against Islamist extremists.
The group is supported by Quilliam, a …
The West urgently needs to support Pakistan’s nascent civil society if the country’s fragile democracy is to survive, write RFE/RL’s Jeffrey Gedmin and Abubakar Siddique. The 2008 parliamentary elections demonstrated the limited support for extremists and suggested promising prospects …
Continuing democratic regression in the non-Baltic former Soviet Union presents a serious challenge to policymakers, according to an Obama administration official. Russia is “in the vanguard” of an anti-democratic backlash that keeps some 221 million citizens under authoritarian rule.
Policymakers …
The Obama administration will use this week’s meeting of the Community of Democracies to shine a light on the backlash against democracy and growing threats to civil society.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be “trying to reenergize…
Thursday, July 1, 2010- 10:15 a.m. “Preventing Violent Conflict: Principles, Policies and Practice”
Conflict prevention is widely endorsed in principle—including in the new National Security Strategy—but too rarely put into serious practice. The consequences of allowing new conflicts to erupt …
China has developed stronger ties with its fellow authoritarian neighbors in Cambodia, Laos and Burma than with democratic Thailand, writes Kavi Chongkittavorn, a member of the World Movement for Democracy’s steering committee.
That’s not necessarily a reflection of …
While Somaliland is getting its act together, its parent state Somalia suggests that the Obama administration is “still a long way from getting its arms around” the issue, writes James Traub, despite the demonstrable expertise within its senior …
Iranian democracy and human rights advocates are warning that Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian is facing imminent execution. Her death sentence has been submitted for implementation and could take place within hours or days, according to the Women’s Learning …
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) does not seem to share the “at-the-highest-levels impatience with democracy and human rights” that some observers detect. He insists that advancing democracy and human rights remains vital to US national security and …