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Top Stories
· Fouzia Saeed: Pioneer for Women's Rights in Pakistan. more
· Speaking out for jailed Peace Prize Laureate Liu
Xiaobo. more
· Civil society leader assassinated in Colombia. more
· Democracy
Digest highlights growing repression in Cuba. more
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Democracy Spotlight
NED welcomes new cohort of Reagan-Fascell Fellows
NED welcomes its Fall 2012 cohort of Reagan-Fascell
Democracy Fellows. In residence are leading practitioners,
journalists, and scholars from Egypt, Russia, Sri Lanka, the U.S.,
Yemen, and Zambia. more
Fouzia
Saeed: Pioneer for Women's Rights in Pakistan
 NED is also pleased to host visiting fellow Fouzia
Saeed, a prominent Pakistani social activist with over 30 years of
experience in the field of gender, human rights, and democracy.
Her work to develop a nationwide alliance against sexual harassment,
her authorship of anti-harassment legislation, and her success in
lobbying for its passage in 2010 gained national recognition.
She currently leads NED grantee Mehergarh, an Islamabad-based human
rights and democracy center. On December 5, Saeed spoke about her
first-hand experiences as a leading advocate for women's rights at Signs of a Maturing
Democracy: Passing Pro-Women Legislation in Pakistan. The
podcast is available online. more
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News & Events
 China
Two years
after being honored in
absentia with the Nobel Peace Prize, Chinese democracy
advocate and NED grantee Liu Xiaobo (of the Independent Chinese PEN
Center) remains in prison, and his wife Liu Xia under de facto house
arrest. On Dec. 12, NED president Carl Gershman testified about
the Liu's case before the Congressional-Executive Committee on China.
more
 Colombia
Miller Angulo Rivera, a civil society leader with NED
grantee The Association of Displaced Afro-Colombians, was
assassinated on Dec. 1 in the city of Tumaco in Nariño, Colombia. more
Cuba
Democracy
Digest reports on the
increased government repression of dissidents and civil society in
Cuba. more
Afghanistan
Sakena Yacoobi, founder of NED grantee the Afghan Institute for
Learning, was interviewed by NPR's Weekend
Edition about her work with women in Afghanistan. more
Bahrain
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, a recipient of
this year's Democracy Courage Tribute at the World Movement's
Assembly in Peru, received the 2012 Baldwin Medal of Liberty from
Human Rights First. more
NED Senior
Director for Europe Rodger Potocki wrote "The Balance Sheet on
Belarus" for the Central
Europe Digest of the Center for European Policy Analysis.
more
In November, NED and Freedom House released a
statement of international concern to bring attention to the
deteriorating situation facing civil society inside Russia. more
NED
President Carl Gershman spoke at the Czech Embassy on "Havel as
a Fighter for Human Rights," to mark the one-year anniversary of
Havel's death. more
NED hosted William Dobson, author of The Dictator's Learning
Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy, at the
panel discussion on, "New Authoritarians and the Challenge to
Democracy." Video is available online more
Christopher Walker, Director of NED's International Forum for
Democratic Studies, reviewed Dobson's book in the current issue of
the Journal of
Democracy. The review is available online free of charge. more
Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the
Independence of News Media, by veteran
media consultant Michelle J. Foster. more
 Ninth Annual Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World
Alfred C. Stepan, the Wallace Sayre Professor of
Government at Columbia University, delivered the ninth annual Seymour
Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World at the Embassy of
Canada in Washington, DC.
The lecture, entitled "Democratization Theory and the Arab
Spring," focused on the theoretical implications of recent
upheavals in the Middle East. more
Recent Events
Dec. 11, 2012: By
the People: The Role of Citizen Journalism in the Information
Revolution, a CIMA event at NED, featured a panel
moderated by Adam Clayton Powell III. more
Dec, 5, 2012:
Signs of a
Maturing Democracy: Passing Pro-Women Legislation in Pakistan,
featured Reagan-Fascell Fellow Fouzia Saeed. more
Dec, 6, 2012:
New
Authoritarians and the Challenge to Democracy, moderated
by Christopher Walker of NED's International Forum for Democratic
Studies. more
Dec. 7, 2012:
The Regional
Dimension of Human Security: Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and
Sierra Leone, featured Dr. Saran Daraba, Secretary Gen.
of the Mano River Union. more
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Videos of most recent events are available online. more
The
next newsletter will be released in January 2013.
We
wish our readers all the best for
the
holidays and the new year.
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