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By Web on February 23, 2010
Wednesday, February 24 – Saturday, February 27 – “Voices from Afghanistan” Exhibit – Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE – On February 24, a new exhibit at the Library of Congress will display some of the thousands of hand-painted scrolls and letters received by Radio Azadi, RFE/RL’s popular Afghan radio station. [read full story]
Posted in Afghanistan, Democracy assistance, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Elections, Failed states, Fragile States, Haiti, Human rights, Iraq, Islam and democracy, Islam/politics, Kenya, Labour/labor unions, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Regions, Transparency, Women, authoritarianism, corruption, democracy, democracy and development, democracy promotion, democracy support, democratic reform, democratization, dissidents, engagement, foreign policy, freedom of expression, governance, media, promoting democracy, protests, rule of law, solidarity | Tagged and Google, Broadcasting in UN Blue, Center for International Media Assistance, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, china, counter-extremism, Democracy & Democracy Promotion, Democracy Promotion in the Muslim World, democratic governance, Geneva Summit for Human Rights, International Labour Organization, Iraqi Elections, Islam and Religious Freedom, Lech Walesa, National Endowment for Democracy, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, Rethinking Human Development, Role of the U.S. in Encouraging Pro-Democracy Movements, Tariq Ramadan, the Internet, Vaclav Havel, Violence against Women, Voices from Afghanistan, Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa |
By Michael Allen on January 20, 2010
Authoritarian regimes have deliberately targeted and intensified attacks against human rights and democracy advocates over the past year, according to the annual review of Human Rights Watch. [read full story]
Posted in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Blogs, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Human rights, Kenya, National Endowment for Democracy, Regions, Sri Lanka, authoritarianism, democracy, democracy promotion, democracy support, dissidents | Tagged Afghanistan, authoritarian, azerbaijan, burundi, china, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, dissidents, Egypt, ethiopia, human rights watch, Kenya, National Endowment for Democracy, NGOs, non-governmental organizations, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, turkmenistan, uzbekistan |
By Michael Allen on January 20, 2010
The one-day trial of four Vietnamese democracy advocates ended today as a Hanoi court handed down unusually harsh sentences. [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Blogs, Vietnam, democracy | Tagged china, Communist Party, democracy, Democracy Digest, Tiananmen Square, vietnam, Vietnam Committee on Human Rights |
By David Lowe on August 3, 2009
Rebiya Kadeer is a slightly built, 62-year-old grandmother who lives in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
To the authorities in Beijing, Kadeer is a terrorist, an Islamic radical, and a separatist for her activities on behalf of her fellow Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group whose historic homeland is in Western China. They blame her for the recent [read full story]
Posted in Asia, China, Guest Post, Human rights, Regions, authoritarianism, dissidents | Tagged china, Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur |
By Michael Allen on July 9, 2009
In the wake of the protests in Urumchi, Chinese security forces are rounding up political dissidents, including prominent Uighur economist Ilham Tohti.
Police have been watching my home for two days now,” the Beijing-based economics professor told Radio Free Asia, two days after at least 156 people were killed in violent clashes. He has not been heard [read full story]
Posted in Asia, China, Democracy assistance, democracy promotion | Tagged china, Rebiya Kadeer, Uighurs |
By Michael Allen on July 8, 2009
Nury A. Turkel, a Washington-based Uighur-American lawyer and activist, gives a personal perspective on the unrest in Urumchi and explains why Uighurs feel betrayed by the West:
In Iran, where their national security is at stake, Western leaders have jumped at the chance to condemn the actions of a repressive regime; but in China, the [read full story]
Posted in Asia, China | Tagged china, Uighurs |
By Michael Allen on June 29, 2009
Research Associate, National Endowment for Democracy
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) seeks Research Associates to work closely with Reagan-Fascell Fellows in residence at NED’s International Forum for Democratic Studies for the 2009-2010 fellowship year (October 1, 2009-July 31, 2010).
Each research associate is assigned to work with several fellows. Duties [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Asia, China, Democracy assistance, Elections, Europe, Failed states, Global, Human rights, Islam/politics, Labour/labor unions, Latin America and the Carribean, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Publications, Regions, Russia, Soft power, authoritarianism, democracy promotion, dissidents, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged American Center for International Labor Solidarity, Burkina Faso, Center for International Enterprise, Center for International Media Assistance, china, EastWest Institute, Freedom House, georgia, Human Rights First, International Forum for Democratic Studies, International Republican Institute, kosovo, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, pakistan, Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, Sudan, U.S. Institute of Peace |
By Michael Allen on June 5, 2009
Check it out: twenty years on from his defiant stance, the New York Times releases a dramatic, never-published photograph featuring Tank Man, the iconic figure of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Posted in China, dissidents, protests | Tagged china, Tank Man, Tiananman Square |
By Michael Allen on June 4, 2009
Far from being resilient, the “rigid stability” that undergirds China’s communist regime is brittle and liable to break under stress, a Capitol Hill rally marking the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre heard today.
“Stability that is based on closed and coercive power, where there is no rule of law to protect people’s legitimate interests [read full story]
Posted in China, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Andrew Nathan, charter 08, china, communist regime, Edward Macmillan-Scott, National Endowment for Democracy, performance legitimacy, procedural legitimacy, resilient stability, rigid stability, rule of law, Tiananmen Square, Timothy Garton-Ash, Yu Jianrong |
By Michael Allen on May 28, 2009
The New York Times has a must-read article (and watch the slide show too) on the planned demolition of Kashgar’s Old City by China’s ruling communist authorities. It is the latest instance of Beijing’s cultural vandalism which is designed to undermine Uyghurs’ identity and aspirations for self-rule.
“Kashgar’s Old City is where I was born and [read full story]
Posted in China | Tagged china, Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Kashgar, uyghurs |
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