June 9, 2010 in News 0

DC rally for Iranian democracy

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 …

June 9, 2010 in Events, News 0

Democracy Events

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 …

Iran’s Green movement: the best lack all conviction – and strategic diversity?

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 …

June 8, 2010 in News 1

Call for Applications: Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowships

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 …

June 7, 2010 in News 0

Chebeya’s death an indictment of DRC’s system

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 …

A community of democracies? Think again

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

June 7, 2010 in Corruption, Governance 0

Dazed and confused?

Guys don’t buy Esquire for erudite articles, so the lack of political literacy in this item doesn’t come as a big surprise.

The National Foundation for Democracy? The Center for International Private Enterprise is “funded by the socialists in …

June 4, 2010 in Uncategorized 0

China’s leaders were prepared to ‘spill some blood’ ahead of Tiananmen massacre

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 …

New threat to Russia’s dissenters

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

June 4, 2010 in News 0

Voice of the voiceless silenced: UN demands inquiry

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