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By Michael Allen on July 22, 2009
Kenya’s political class must abandon a winner-takes-all approach to politics, reform its corrupt judiciary and police force, and stop the extra-judicial killings that threaten civil society groups, a Washington conference heard today.
Echoing President Barack Obama’s call for strong institutions instead of a “strong man” approach to politics, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Democracy assistance, Elections, Failed states, Human rights, Kenya, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Regions, corruption | Tagged corruption, democracy, Democracy assistance, Donald Payne, Gitobu Imanyara, House Democracy Assistance Commission, Joel Barkan, Johnnie Carson, judicial reform, Kenya, Maina Kiai, Makau Mutua, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on May 21, 2009
Russia’s crisis is worse than the rest of the world’s, writes Anders Åslund, due to inadequate reforms, extraordinary corruption and dependence on commodity exports. Although Dmitri Medvedev and his “ambitious technocrats” are ostensibly in charge, they have been unable to implement the necessary reforms as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin remains the de facto dominant power.
The [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Eastern Europe, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, Russia, authoritarianism, corruption, economic crisis | Tagged authoritarianism, civil society, corruption, democracy, Human rights, NGOs, Russia, tandemocracy, Vladimir Putin |
By Michael Allen on May 4, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009. All Day – Conference. The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy – 10th year anniversary annual conference on “How to Improve Relations With the Muslim World: Challenges and Promises Ahead.” Events begin at 9 a.m. Agenda highlights: — 9 a.m.: Geneive Abdo of the Century Foundation; Cecile Coronato of [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Backlash, Cuba, Cuba, Democracy assistance, Elections, Eurasia, Events, Human rights, Islam/politics, Latin America and the Carribean, Middle East and North Africa, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Pakistan, Publications, Russia, authoritarianism, corruption, democracy promotion, dictatorships, dissidents, promoting democracy | Tagged Arab democracy, Building Democracy in Southeast Asia, Center for International Private Enterprise, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, civil society, corruption, Democracy and Security, Democracy and Security in Pakistan, Democracy in the Middle East, Democracy in the Muslim World, economic decline and democratic stability in Latin America, Freedom House, Human rights, Journal of Democracy, Moldova, Muslim World, National Endowment for Democracy, pakistan, Russia, Social Factors in Cuba, The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East, Transparency |
By Michael Allen on April 27, 2009
Corrupt hardliners within Zimbabwe’s former ruling party are sabotaging efforts to realize the democratizing commitments of the September 2008 global political agreement, the country’s finance minister said today. Speaking at the National Endowment for Democracy, finance minister blamed the “catfish” – creatures that prefer to lie in the mud of corrupt patronage – for “sponsoring [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Backlash, Failed states, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Zimbabwe, corruption, media | Tagged civil society, corruption, Freedom House, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, Zimbabwe |
By Michael Allen on April 20, 2009
Robert Amsterdam asked some leading experts, featured in this interesting short video. Not at all, says David Satter: Medvedev is “completely dependent” on Vladimir Putin and has not even succeeded in creating his own political apparatus. Ariel Cohen notes that the president has his own team but the prime minister’s cronies control all the key [read full story]
Posted in Eastern Europe, Europe, NGOs/Civil society, Russia, authoritarianism, corruption | Tagged authoritarianism, corruption, democracy, GONGOs, medvedev, NGOs/Civil society, Russia |
By Michael Allen on March 19, 2009
Tolekan Ismailova, director of the Human Rights Center “Citizens Against Corruption” and World Movement for Democracy activist, was detained on March 18 with three other persons in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Women’s Learning Partnership, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, reports that the arrests followed a peaceful commemoration of the anniversary of the March 2002 [read full story]
Posted in Eurasia, Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, corruption, protests | Tagged corruption, Eurasia, Human rights, kyrgyz, National Endowment for Democracy, protests |
By Michael Allen on March 19, 2009
Police have released democracy activists Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Dolly Ibefo Mbunga and Donat Tshikaya following international protests at their detention. Eyewitnesses said the three men were beaten, handcuffed and “thrown” into police vehicles when they were arrested on 15 March in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The men were arrested at the offices [read full story]
Posted in Africa, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, National Endowment for Democracy, corruption | Tagged corruption, Human rights, Labour/labor unions, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on March 19, 2009
Further to the ongoing debate about the way forward in Afghanistan, former finance minister Ashraf Ghani argues that even the most comprehensive and aggressive counter-insurgency strategy will fail unless the issue of corruption is addressed:
To begin the process of cleaning up government, a new commission of civil society organizations should look into the sale and [read full story]
Posted in Asia, corruption | Tagged Afghanistan, Asia, corruption |
By Michael Allen on March 18, 2009
Voters go to the polls today to vote in a controversial referendum as oil-rich Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev Aliyev becomes the latest “petro-president” to consolidate his grip on power by abolishing term limits. Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez secured the necessary constitutional amendments last month, the Kazakh parliament lifted presidential term limits in 2007, and the Kremlin [read full story]
Posted in Elections, Eurasia, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, authoritarianism, corruption | Tagged Aliyev, authoritarianism, corruption, Elections, Eurasia, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society |
By Michael Allen on March 17, 2009
The Obama administration has sought to lower expectations for Afghanistan, suggesting that stability is the principal priority. Clearly, a failing state cannot sustain a genuine democracy, but others are reluctant to give up the country’s experiment with democracy, suggesting that “the custom of holding elections, even if some early rounds may be somewhat flawed, eventually [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Elections, Failed states, corruption, democracy promotion, foreign policy, promoting democracy | Tagged Asia, corruption, democracy promotion, Elections, Failed states, foreign policy, promoting democracy |
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