- Last week’s terrorist bombings in Somaliland claimed the lives of 31 people, including Hussein Mohamed Farah, formerly an officer of the Institute for Practical Research and Training, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy.
- David DeCaires, “one of Guyana’s extraordinary leaders“, and the founder and editor of its leading independent newspaper has died of complications following a heart attack. DeCaires broke the state media when he helped establish the Stabroek News in 1986 with a $110,000 grant from the National Endowment for Democracy. He has since contested the Guyanese government’s abuse of public advertising for politically-punitive purposes.
- You will find the testimony of independent Cuban labor leader Pedro Pablo ÁlvarezRamos testimony (in Spanish) tothe OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights here. It lasts approximately 46 minutes.
- Promoting Arab democracy – forceful approach beats dead-end dialog?
- Activist demands accountability and end to impunity in Zimbabwe
- ‘Southern democracies’ resist Euro-Atlantic embrace
- Solidarity with Muslim democrats vital in combatting violent extremism
- Engaging civil society – in Pakistan at least
- Defending the NED: rehash and rebuttal
- Iran: labor emerging as political factor?
- Chad: revealing insights into former dictator’s methods
- Iraq: region’s ‘natural hegemon’ can show that freedom provides security and prosperity
- Colombia’s push back against ‘wave of autocracy’
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