Suvash Darnal (right), was highly devoted to the cause of marginalized groups in Nepal, particularly the Dalit community. As founder and managing director of the Samata Foundation, a Kathmandu-based research and advocacy organization, Darnal worked to bolster the involvement of …

2011 Democracy Award to Jamel Bettaieb from National Endowment for Democracy on Vimeo.

A young teacher and labor union activist has been chosen as one of the emerging leaders from Egypt and Tunisia to be awarded fellowships to work …

The Center for International Private Enterprise invites youth (aged 18-30) from around the world to tell their stories about democratic and economic development. Essay topics include youth in democratic transition, economically sustainable development, and corruption.

Winners of CIPE’s Youth Essay …

Syrian security forces killed at least 23 people today after  mass protests erupted following Friday prayers. Huge crowds took to the streets demanding the end to Ba’athist rule, including thousands in the town of Khaldieh.

The European Union today …

In the absence of a “standard template” for democracy, a new European tool for supporting democratic reform should develop a customized approach to assistance that reflects country-specific circumstances, says a leading practitioner.

The European Union’s proposal for a new European …

Viewed in the West as a tourist haven and a lucrative business venue, Vietnam remains a repressive one-party state, says one of the country’s leading democracy advocates. Vo Van Ai, founder of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, …

Democracy activists and media analysts will join New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Canadian premier Kim Campbell – now Chair of the World Movement for Democracy – and more than 40 democratic former heads of state and government in New …

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The experience of post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe carries a vital lesson for the reformers of the Arab Spring, writes Anna Nadgrodkiewicz. Citizens need bread as well as freedom, so democrats must convert revolutionary zeal into concrete …

When people rise up today in Libya or Syria, the experience of Poland’s Solidarity is somewhere in the back of their minds, says Carl Gershman, addressing the opening of a Woodrow Wilson Center exhibit on The Phenomenon of Solidarity: Pictures …