Democracy Digest » Search Results » hAVEL http://www.demdigest.net/blog News and analysis on democracy assistance and promotion Fri, 24 May 2013 19:29:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Burma: ‘democracy on prescription’? http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/burma-democracy-on-prescription/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/burma-democracy-on-prescription/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:25 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=20697 Burma’s transition process has been “a top-down affair,” The Economist notes.

“This, more than anything, distinguishes it from other recent upheavals such as the ‘people power’ revolutions of the Arab spring, the fall of communism in Europe and the …

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“I am irresistibly reminded of the halcyon days after Václav Havel became president of Czechoslovakia in 1990,” writes Timothy Garton …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/no-havelesque-visions-for-burmas-uncrowned-queen/feed/ 0 Call for nominations: Václav Havel Human Rights Prize http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/call-for-nominations-vaclav-havel-human-rights-prize/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/call-for-nominations-vaclav-havel-human-rights-prize/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 17:31:02 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=20674 The Václav Havel Human Rights Prize is awarded each year by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in partnership with the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation to reward outstanding civil society action in the …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/05/call-for-nominations-vaclav-havel-human-rights-prize/feed/ 0 ‘Moral solidarity’ or cynical realpolitik? Don’t sacrifice rights for nuclear deal, Iranian dissidents tell Obama http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/04/dont-sacrifice-rights-for-nuclear-deal-iranian-dissidents-tell-obama/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/04/dont-sacrifice-rights-for-nuclear-deal-iranian-dissidents-tell-obama/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:50:26 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=20120 A group of former Iranian political prisoners is calling on the Obama administration not to sacrifice human rights for the sake of a nuclear deal with the regime in Tehran, but to reap the soft power benefits of “moral solidarity” …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/04/dont-sacrifice-rights-for-nuclear-deal-iranian-dissidents-tell-obama/feed/ 0 US should urge probe of Cuban dissident’s death http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/us-should-urge-probe-of-cuban-dissidents-death/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/us-should-urge-probe-of-cuban-dissidents-death/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:55:43 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=19533 The Obama administration should back calls for an investigation into the death of a leading Cuban dissident, says the Washington Post:

Nelson Mandela was locked up on Robben Island. Andrei Sakharov was exiled to Gorky. Vaclav Havel was …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/us-should-urge-probe-of-cuban-dissidents-death/feed/ 0 Vytautas Landsbergis & The Other Dream Team http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/vytautas-landsbergis-the-other-dream-team/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/vytautas-landsbergis-the-other-dream-team/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:37:44 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=19430

The National Endowment for Democracy and the Embassy of Lithuania invite you to the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal to Vytautas Landsbergis, preceded by a screening of the film The Other Dream Team. 

Vytautas Landsbergis, along …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/vytautas-landsbergis-the-other-dream-team/feed/ 0 ‘Repression continues’ in dubious transition to post-Castro Cuba http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/repression-continues-as-dubious-transition-to-post-castro-cuba-starts/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/repression-continues-as-dubious-transition-to-post-castro-cuba-starts/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:01:18 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=19375 Yoani Sanchez at Vaclav Havel airportCuba’s Communist authorities denied Yoani Sánchez (right) the right to travel twenty times, but she has now arrived in the Czech Republic, Radio Praha’s Jan Richter reports:

Sánchez, who said she only knew Prague from the books of Milan Kundera, …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/repression-continues-as-dubious-transition-to-post-castro-cuba-starts/feed/ 0 Azerbaijan rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev wins Homo Homini award http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/azerbaijan-rights-lawyer-intigam-aliyev-wins-homo-homini-award/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/azerbaijan-rights-lawyer-intigam-aliyev-wins-homo-homini-award/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:28:35 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=19288 Intigam Aliyev, a leading human rights lawyer from Azerbaijan, has been awarded the prestigious Homo Homini human rights award for 2012. The award, given by People in Need, the Czech Republic’s largest non-governmental organization, is given in recognition of Aliyev‘s …

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A Chinese democracy advocate who hoped to meet Aung San Suu Kyi has been barred from flying to Burma.

“We chose to travel to Burma because we wanted to see Aung San Suu Kyi,” Wang Zhongxia (left) told The …

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“Two prominent journalists, Emin Milli and Khadija Ismayilova, were among up to 100 people detained …

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