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News from NED
March 2010
NED has a new web site with terrific interactive features, including Democracy Stories, a series of short videos profiling outstanding grantees. To visit our homepage and explore NED's work, click here. |
| The Dalai Lama Honored in Washington |
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The day after a private meeting with President Obama, NED honored the Dalai Lama with its Democracy Service Medal... read more>>
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| NED Grantee Spotlight |
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Burma VJ, the Oscar-nominated documentary by Anders Østergaard, features NED grantee Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). After foreign reporters were banned from Burma and the internet was shut down in 2007, DVB made sure the world could still witness the Saffron Revolution. Though in the end Burma VJ did not take home an Oscar, its rare, insider's view of the uprising through the cameras of DVB will remain one of the most inspiring films of 2009.
Grantees are helping rebuild the country as they bring trained grassroots leaders together to conduct damage and needs assessments. Some are also working in the new tent communities, organizing relief and citizen security committees. While international and governmental coordination still needs to improve, communities are turning to their internal networks and groups to find solutions for themselves.....
Democracy Stories, NED's new video series, features two interviews with Fondation Espoir director Hans Tippenhauer. In the first, Larry Diamond talked with Tippenhauer about his group's long-term work to develop a community of young Haitian leaders...
In the updated video, Tippenhauer talks about the personal and professional challenges posed by the earthquake's devastation, and how he and his colleagues are coping and starting to rebuild...
The Solidarity Center, a NED core grantee, is raising funds for earthquake relief in Haiti... |
| Required Reading: Democracy Digest |
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| NED Grantee News |
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Jestina Mukoko (left, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama) is Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, a NED grantee. She received the International Women of Courage Award at the US State Department during her recent visit.
Yuri Dzhibladze, Director of the Moscow-based Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, met with President Obama with the message that "engagement is not working".
A recent New York Times article discusses three NED-supported radio stations based in South Korea, broadcasting to North Korea: Daily NK, Open North Korea and North Korean Intellectual Solidarity.
Another New York Times article features NED grantee Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights and the work they do with defectors living in South Korea.
For more NED grantee news....click here>> |
| NED News & Events |
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Khalilzad, Nathan, Hume Join NED Board
Khalilzad Associates President and CEO Zalmay Khalilzad, Annenberg Fellow Ellen Hume, and Columbia University professor Andrew J. Nathan were elected for three-year terms...
In February, NED partnered with the Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of Seoul's Kyungnam University to host the International Donor Conference on North Korea: Development, Human Rights and Democracy...
This Journal of Democracy title was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in March 2010. A panel to celebrate its launch was held March 11 and featured editors Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner...
Spring Reagan-Fascell Fellows Arrive
In residence are leading democratic practitioners, journalists, and scholars from a wide range of countries, including Afghanistan, Australia, Guatemala, Pakistan, Russia, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, the United States, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe...
To learn more about the Reagan-Fascell Fellows program, click here.
Twenty years after the Berlin Wall crumbled, young leaders from the Western Balkans came together to discuss the remaining barriers to a united and free Europe...
NED President Carl Gershman travelled to France December 1-2, 2009, to broaden NED's democracy network and foster greater cooperation between NED and French partners...
Recent Events at the Center for International Media Assistance
In publishing online, media organizations face the risk of libel and defamation suits in many countries around the world....
Authoritarian regimes are finding new and subtle ways to counter opposition voices....
From Cambodia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local United Nations peacekeeping radio programs have helped mitigate violent conflict and make peaceful elections possible.....
Covering increasingly brutal drug cartel wars puts journalists in the line of fire in Mexico, a country now considered one of the world's most dangerous for media workers....
The State of Freedom of Expression in the Americas
This new report analyzes ten years of data from the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the Organization of American States (OAS)...
Publications
NED President Carl Gershman's Washington Post op-ed.
Former NED Chairman Vin Weber's op-ed in the Washington Times in support of NED's work.
Brian Joseph, NED's Senior Director for Asia, wrote "The Long Burmese Road" for FP.com.
Ivana Howard, NED Program Officer for Southeast Europe, wrote for Transitions Online about the need for civil society to stand up to Bosnia's new hate-speech demagogues.
Reinventing the Media Investor
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) launched a new report series: Media Visionaries: Conversations with Key Players. The inaugural piece, Reinventing the Media Investor, is about Sasa Vucinic, managing director of the Media Loan Fund.
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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, with funding from the US Congress, NED supports more than 1,000 projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries. What's New at NED | |
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