“Amid an intensifying crackdown on nongovernmental groups that receive foreign funding, Indian activists are accusing the government of stifling their right to dissent in the world’s largest democracy,” The Washington Post’s Rama Lakshmi, reports from New Delhi:

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“Muslims around the world express broad support for democracy and for people of other faiths being able to practice their religion freely,” according to a major new survey. “At the same time, many Muslims say religious leaders should influence political …

The United States should give a higher priority to advancing global religious freedom as a matter of national security, says a major new survey. The persecution of people of faith is inherently dangerous because it has the effect of …

India should ditch the BRICS and strengthen its associations with the world’s democracies, writes social scientist Dipankar Gupta.

“When India dared to birth democracy, many thought it was premature and that it would soon be history,” he writes. “Sixty-six action-filled …

The global swing states of Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Turkey are prepared to play a role in promoting human rights and democracy, writes Brookings analyst Ted Piccone. But this is to be done on their own terms: through quiet diplomacy …

The rise of four powerful democracies – Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey – could bolster today’s international order. Yet this outcome is far from assured.

The degree to which the four “global swing states,” as this project calls them, …

A new grand strategy for US foreign policy should promote democracy through the attractive “pull” of successful example rather than the coercive “push” of power, say two leading scholars of international affairs.  

The strategy should “be refocused on initiating …

Corruption remains one of the most pernicious threats to the quality and legitimacy of democratic governance, not least in South Asia.

One of the most innovative responses is Ipaidabribe.com, an Indian civil society initiative, which highlights grassroots and alternative …

Democracy, in the form of “accountable governance,” is one of the primary drivers of prosperity, according to a major new survey.

Some 27 out of the top 30 countries in Legatum Institute’s prosperity index are democracies, although India, …

U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday delivered a forceful defense of democracy against extremism – highlighting freedom of expression in particular – before the UN General Assembly.

His commitment that the U.S. would continue to promote democracy and his reminder that …