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Top Stories • Nobel Peace Prize honors NED grantee more • Chen Guangcheng should be freed more• Krastev to deliver Lipset Lecture, Oct 19, 2010 more • Oct 21 North Korea conference: Succession, Human RIghts, Democracy more |
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Democracy Spotlight
 Nobel Peace Prize honors NED grantee The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) joins democrats and human rights defenders in China and around the world in congratulating Charter 08 co-organizer Liu Xiaobo on receiving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Liu Xiaobo's intellectual independence, moral courage, and thoughtful advocacy of democratic approaches to China's challenges have won him deep respect in his own country and abroad. Read more in Democracy Digest. NED also released a statement: more
Chen Guangcheng should be set free  Chen Guangcheng (陳(光誠), a blind, self-taught lawyer imprisoned by China's communist authorities after exposing official abuses, was recently freed from prison after finishing a 51-month prison sentence, but then immediately placed under de facto house arrest. In 2008, NED honored Chen with its Democracy Award. more |
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News & Events
 Krastev to Deliver Lipset Lecture
"Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism" is the topic chosen by Ivan Krastev, chairman of Bulgaria's Center for Liberal Strategies, for the 7th Annual Lipset Lecture at the Embassy of Canada, which he will give on Oct. 19. more
North Korea
Oct 21, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Conference: North Korea's Shifting Political Landscape: Will Succession Provide Opportunities for Expanded Human Rights and Democracy in the Hermit Kingdom? more NED President Carl Gershman testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on "Escaping North Korea: the Plight of Defectors." more CIMA Event LivestreamOct 14, 5-7:30pm: A Discussion with the 2010 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award Winners. Video will also be available after the event. more
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The New York Times profiles NED grantee Sanjar Umarov in "An Uzbek Survivor of Torture Seeks to Fight It Tacitly." more
Democratic Republic of Congo
Joshua Marks, NED Program Officer for Central Africa, on "Democracy in Congo: Fading Prospects Four Years after Elections" in Foreign Policy Digest. more New CIMA Report Cash for Coverage: the Bribery of Journalists Around the World. more
 World Youth Day for Democracy
October 18 is World Youth Day for Democracy, which will be celebrated with events around the globe. more Call for Applications: Reagan-Fascell Fellows
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program application deadline for 2011-12 is Nov 1. more Past Reagan-Fascell Fellow Ann Bernstein discusses her new book, The Case for Business in Developing Economies. more
CIMA Event: Press Freedom in Ukraine
Oct 22, 3-5pm: CIMA - Press Freedom in Ukraine: Incredible Shrinking Media Space? more |
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