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By Michael Allen on February 5, 2010
Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev makes a rather bizarre attempt to justify the incarceration of human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, comparing his case to that of celebrated film director Roman Polanski.
Zhovtis was sentenced to four years in prison for accidentally striking and killing a man with his car.
“I don’t even want to comment on this [read full story]
Posted in Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism | Tagged Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Kanat Saudabayev, kazakhstan, National Endowment for Democracy, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), World Movement for Democracy, Yevgeny Zhovtis |
By Michael Allen on February 4, 2010
Russia provides a challenging “test case” for the Obama administration’s approach to promoting democracy while engaging authoritarian regimes, a Washington meeting heard this week.
While President Dmitry Medvedev was ostensibly committed to modernization, Russia needs “broader institutional changes, including rule of law”, said Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. [read full story]
Posted in Backlash, Eurasia, Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Russia, authoritarianism, democracy support, dissidents, rule of law | Tagged .S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group, and Labor, anna politkovskaya, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Democracy, civil society dialog, constraints on NGOs, European Court of Human Rights, Human rights, Karinna Moskalenko, Ludmila Alexeeva, Michael Posner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Natasha Estemirova, National Endowment for Democracy, promoting democracy, restrictions on civil society, Sergei Kovalev |
By Michael Allen on February 2, 2010
More tragic news emerging from Haiti where the United Nations confirmed that Gerardo Le Chevalier, head of the UN Electoral Assistance unit, was killed in the 7.0 quake.
A Salvadoran citizen and former director of Latin America and Caribbean programs for the National Democratic Institute, he was among those who died when the U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince [read full story]
Posted in Failed states, Haiti, Latin America and the Carribean, National Democratic Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, Solidarity Center | Tagged American Center for International Labor Solidarity, Carl Gershman, Earthquake Relief for Haitian Workers Fund, Gerardo Le Chevalier, Haitian Staff and Family Disaster Assistance Fund, National Endowment for Democracy, Solidarity Center |
By Michael Allen on February 2, 2010
Burma VJ has been nominated for an Oscar in the 2010 Academy Awards. The film is considered to be a front-runner in the race for the Best Documentary.
The documentary features the work of an underground network of video journalists which smuggled footage of Burma’s 2007 saffron revolution to the outside world. The network is supported [read full story]
Posted in National Endowment for Democracy, color revolutions, democracy support, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma, National Endowment for Democracy, saffron revolution |
By Michael Allen on January 26, 2010
Hugo Chavez’s latest assault on Venezuela’s independent media and propaganda and intimidation in the run-up to Sri Lanka’s presidential election feature in the latest media round-up from the Center for International Media Assistance.
CIMA, an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy, also highlights stories detailing how nimble agencies (including NED grantees) smuggle news from North [read full story]
Posted in Democracy assistance, Hat tip: Center for International Media Assistance., Human rights, freedom of expression, media | Tagged Center for International Media Assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, north korea |
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 October 14, 2009
Cuba’s communist authorities have banned a dissident blogger from travelling to the U.S. to receive a major journalism award.
Yoani Sánchez won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for her blog, Generacion Y, which is critical of the one-party state and receives 14 million hits each month. Time Magazine has named her as one of the world’s [read full story]
Posted in Cuba, Democracy assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, Tools/technology, democracy promotion, engagement, freedom of expression, media | Tagged Center for a Free Cuba, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on October 9, 2009
Vietnam’s communist regime today imprisoned several activists for promoting democracy and defending the country’s territorial claims in the Eastern Sea. The prosecutions are designed to stifle dissent and offset pressures for reform in the run-up to a major communist party congress, analysts suggest.
Exiled pro-democracy reformers say the trials confirm that Hanoi criminalizes free speech and [read full story]
Posted in Human rights, National Endowment for Democracy, Vietnam, communist regimes, democracy promotion, dissidents, freedom of expression, promoting democracy | Tagged "Bloc 8406", National Endowment for Democracy, Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Vo Van Ai |
By Michael Allen on October 8, 2009
Defenders of Burmese political prisoners, rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopian civil society and human rights in the Caucasus make up the winners of this year’s Human Rights Watch awards for extraordinary activism.
Bo Kyi emerged from several years in the Burmese junta’s jails to establish a support network for those he left [read full story]
Posted in Human rights, NGOs/Civil society, National Endowment for Democracy, Women, dissidents, freedom of expression, rule of law | Tagged Assistance Association of Political Prisoners, democratization, human rights watch, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on September 29, 2009
The US-Korea Institute at SAIS and the National Endowment for Democracy are pleased to co-sponsor a seminar on the status of human rights violations in North Korea, featuring Dr. Yoon Yeo-sang and Mr. Kim Sang-hun, on October 8, 2009.
The 2009 White Paper on North Korean Human Rights
Featuring:
Dr. Yoon Yeo-sang, President, North Korean Human Rights Database [read full story]
Posted in National Endowment for Democracy | Tagged National Endowment for Democracy |
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