Pro-Iranian democracy activists will hold a march and rally in Washington this weekend in solidarity with Iran’s Green democracy movement on the one-year anniversary of last year’s disputed presidential elections.
The rally, organized by the Solidarity Committee to Protect the …
Wednesday, June 9, 12 p.m. “Human Rights Under Attack: Oppression in Iran.” The Heritage Foundation will host the discussion with participants including Renee Redman, executive director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center; Golnaz Esfandiari, senior correspondent at Radio …
Has Iran’s Green movement been gamed, lamely confronting a regime wise to its tactics and strategy? Or is the country’s democratic movement at an historic high, more robust than at any time over the past century?
The opposition Green movement …
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for Democracy invites applications for fellowships in 2011-2012. The program enables democracy activists, practitioners, scholars, and journalists from around the world to deepen their understanding of democracy and enhance …
The chief of police in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been suspended following the death of a leading democracy advocate.
Floribert Chebeya, head of the Voix des sans Voix (Voice of the Voiceless) human rights group, was …
Turkey and Brazil may be democracies, but that does not translate into support for US policies, for globalization or for promoting democracy.
If Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama “all came into power with One Big Idea,” writes Walter Russell Mead…
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The National Foundation for Democracy? The Center for International Private Enterprise is “funded by the socialists in …
China’s communist leaders premeditatedly prepared to “spill some blood” ahead of the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators. On the 21st anniversary of the events, security services today harassed grieving parents of victims, driving several mourners …
Even hardened KGB operatives were unnerved by veteran dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva:
Back in the Soviet era, she would disconcert KGB officers by placidly unpacking oranges, then a rarity, while being questioned. Last New Year’s Eve, the 82-year-old dressed up …
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon has added his voice to calls for an independent investigation into the death of Floribert Chebeya, a leading democracy advocate in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The executive director and founder of Voix des sans …