Democracy Digest » Corruption http://www.demdigest.net/blog News and analysis on democracy assistance and promotion Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Yemen transition ‘on brink of collapse,’ says Nobel laureate Karman http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/yemen-transition-on-the-brink-collapse-says-nobel-laureate-karman/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/yemen-transition-on-the-brink-collapse-says-nobel-laureate-karman/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:36:29 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18984 Yemen’s transition process is on the brink of collapse due to the failure to reform security institutions and disempower former regime elements, a leading activist warned today.

Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh should be excluded from politics, and youth, women …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/yemen-transition-on-the-brink-collapse-says-nobel-laureate-karman/feed/ 0 ‘It’s the biggest threat to democracy in Europe …..’ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/its-the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-in-europe/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/its-the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-in-europe/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:04:02 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18963 Since the collapse of Communism, the Council of Europe has “become the first way station for former Soviet bloc nations aspiring to join a web of Western alliances,” writes Judy Dempsey, editor in chief of Carnegie’s Strategic Europe:

As a …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/its-the-biggest-threat-to-democracy-in-europe/feed/ 0 US must place realism above values to ‘reset the reset’ with Russia? http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/us-must-place-realism-above-values-to-reset-the-reset-with-russia/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/us-must-place-realism-above-values-to-reset-the-reset-with-russia/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:24:38 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18961 US-Russian relations will remain strained as long as Washington continues to criticize the country’s human rights record, says a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.

The US violated “a tacit understanding” to refrain from publicly criticizing Russia’s democratic regression, undermining …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/us-must-place-realism-above-values-to-reset-the-reset-with-russia/feed/ 0 Ethnic conflicts one of three threats to the ‘Burmese Spring’ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/ethnic-conflicts-one-of-three-threats-to-the-burmese-spring/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/ethnic-conflicts-one-of-three-threats-to-the-burmese-spring/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:37:46 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18958 Burma’s government today held talks with senior commanders of the rebel Kachin Independence Army in an effort to end a violent ethnic conflict that threatens to undermine the country’s reform process.

“The KIA is fighting for autonomy for Kachin state …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/ethnic-conflicts-one-of-three-threats-to-the-burmese-spring/feed/ 0 China’s dissident writers – ‘plucking feathers from a frog’? http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/chinas-dissident-writers-plucking-feathers-from-a-frog/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/chinas-dissident-writers-plucking-feathers-from-a-frog/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:40:17 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18956 “I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this,” said Liu Xia (right), the wife of the jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo….

….when she described [to NPR’s Louisa Lim], in tears, her past …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/02/chinas-dissident-writers-plucking-feathers-from-a-frog/feed/ 0 Kremlin scraps US rule of law accord http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ngos-leave-russia-as-kremlin-scraps-rule-of-law-accord-with-us/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ngos-leave-russia-as-kremlin-scraps-rule-of-law-accord-with-us/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:19:37 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18889 “In another apparent tit for tat provoked by the Magnitsky Act, Russia said Wednesday that it was withdrawing from an agreement that provided help from the United States in fighting narcotics and human trafficking and enhancing the rule of law,” …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ngos-leave-russia-as-kremlin-scraps-rule-of-law-accord-with-us/feed/ 0 Ukrainian conviction for killing journalist not the last word, says Gongadze’s widow http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ukrainian-conviction-for-killing-journalist-not-the-last-word-says-gongadzes-widow/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ukrainian-conviction-for-killing-journalist-not-the-last-word-says-gongadzes-widow/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:52:51 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18869 A Ukrainian court has sentenced former police chief Olexiy Pukach to life imprisonment for murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze (left) in 2000, “a crime which rocked the country,” the BBC reports:

Pukach confessed but said he had acted on the …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/ukrainian-conviction-for-killing-journalist-not-the-last-word-says-gongadzes-widow/feed/ 0 New NGO curbs show Russia’s ‘Paradox of Paranoia’ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/new-ngo-curbs-show-russias-paradox-of-paranoia/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/new-ngo-curbs-show-russias-paradox-of-paranoia/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:47:11 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18864 Russia today announced further curbs on civil society groups, as a leading analyst recommends “information warfare” as the most effective response to the Kremlin’s growing authoritarianism at home and abroad.  

“Russia’s Justice Ministry is proposing legislation to extend rules …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/new-ngo-curbs-show-russias-paradox-of-paranoia/feed/ 0 Azerbaijan unrest ‘sends a warning’ to Aliyev http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/azerbaijan-unrest-sends-a-warning-to-aliyev/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/azerbaijan-unrest-sends-a-warning-to-aliyev/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:57:55 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18843 Scores of pro-democracy activists were detained and at least five sentenced to prison after a police crackdown on a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday.

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

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/azerbaijan-unrest-sends-a-warning-to-aliyev/feed/ 1 For a lasting peace, give Congo’s people a voice http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/for-a-lasting-peace-give-congos-people-a-voice/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/for-a-lasting-peace-give-congos-people-a-voice/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:59:00 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18835 The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo must have genuine representation and expression of their grievances for any peace process to last, said Joshua Marks, the National Endowment for Democracy’s senior program officer, addressing last week’s Great …

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