In The News

This page includes recent articles and mentions of NED and NED grantees.

aug 3, 2010

NED Program Officer Fabiola Cordova wrote an article titled "Haitians Need their Own Voice" published on the Americas Quarterly Website.  :: visit

jul 8, 2010

In the July 8 issue of Rooz Online, an independent/reformist Iranian daily, Fariba Amini interviews NED President Carl Gershman about Iran's continuing struggle for democracy and NED's work globally. :: visit

Jul 7, 2010

Bobbi Jo Traut, NED's Assistant Program Officer for Europe and Eurasia, writes on the first annual European Partnership Fair in Moldova in the article, Making the connection: Promoting NGO partnerships in Moldova, published on the website, moldova.org. :: VISIT

Jul 5, 2010

NED President Carl Gershman writes in The Washington Post on the anniversary of the violent suppression of the Urumchi protests last July 5 in the article titled,"Ending the silence on China's Uighur repression." :: visit

Jul 5, 2010

Louisa Greve, NED Vice President for Programs, is quoted in a recent article on the Voice of America website titled, "Uighurs Mark Anniversary of Deadly Ethnic Protests in China." :: visit

jun 17, 2010

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, Fatima Tlisova, is featured on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's website in a recent blog post titled "Free Press in North Caucasus Continues to Deteriorate." :: visit

jun 15, 2010

Nadia Diuk, NED Vice President of Programs for Africa, Latin America and Eurasia, wrote an article published in the Wall Street Journal Europe titled "Yanukovych’s 100-Day Drift to Moscow."  ::visit

apr 27, 2010

NED is featured in the Yemen Observer in Shuaib M. al-Mosawa's article, "NED to support 'real' Yemeni NGOs." :: visit

Mar 28, 2010

NED grantees in North Korea profiled in a March 28, 2010 New York Times article, "North Koreans Use Cellphones to Bare Secrets." :: Visit

Mar 11, 2010

Former NED Chairman Vin Weber wrote an op-ed titled "Defending the well-endowed" for the Washington Times in response to a February 25 op-ed calling for an end of support to NED and several other "endowments."  ::VISIT

mar 6, 2010

NED grantee Democratic Voice of Burma is featured in Christian Science Monitor ::more

mar 3, 2010

NED grantee Democratic Voice of Burma featured on FP.com ::more

Feb 25, 2010

Program Officer Ivana Howard writes in Transitions Online on civil society in Bosnia, "Asleep at the Wheel."

Feb 19, 2010

Anders Østergaard’s documentary, Burma VJ, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiles NED grantee Democratic Voice of Burma. :: MORE

Feb 16, 2010

NED president Carl Gershman writes in the February 16 Washington Post about the Dalai Lama's efforts to achieve democracy and autonomy for the Tibetan people.

Feb 12, 2010

NED's senior director for Asia, Brian Joseph, recently wrote an article titled "The Long Burmese Road" that was published on the Foreign Policy web site responding to a previously written essay titled "Rumble in the Junta," by Drew Thompson.

Jan 24, 2010

A recent NY Times article, "Nimble Agencies Sneak News Out of North Korea", discusses three NED-supported radio stations based in South Korea, broadcasting to North Korea:  Daily NK, Open North Korea and North Korean Intellectual Solidarity (all NED grantees).  The article also mentions NED's support to two of the groups.

Jan 19, 2010

The upcoming presidential election in Ukraine was the topic of a round-table discussion conducted by the Voice of America Ukrainian Service, "Western Experts Discuss Ukraine Election." Nadia Diuk, NED's Vice President, Programs – Africa, Central Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, participated.

Jan 7, 2010

Christopher Sabatini, former NED director for Latin America and the Carribean, writes in Foreign Policy Magazine, "Our Hapless Man in Havana."

Jan 6, 2010

NED's Ivana Howard joins Daljit Dhaliwal to take a closer look at the increasing ethnic tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Worldfocus, "Ethnic Tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina cause concern."

Nov 30, 2009

Jackson Diehl highlights NED Middle East Conference in the Washington Post,"The deflated Arab hopes for Obama."

Nov 24, 2009

New York Times article on Sanjar Umarov, a NED grantee released from prison in "Uzbekistan: Opposition Leader Sent to U.S. After Early Release From Prison."

SeP 2, 2009

John Knaus, Senior Program Officer, Asia, writes in The Korea Times on "Potential Regime Decay."

Aug 23, 2009

Nadia Diuk, NED Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia, speaks with VOA Ukrainian Service on 18th Anniversary of Ukraine's Independence.

Jul 9, 2009

"Exile in the U.S. Becomes Face of Uighurs" by Erik Eckholm for the New York Times.

Jul 9, 2009

"The Mother of the Uighur Movement; Leading Protest on Chinese Embassy, Rioting Region's Exile Looms Large" by David Montgomergy for the Washington Post.

Jun 26, 2009

"Obama Praises Cuban Dissidents' Struggle" from the Latin American Herald Tribune.

Jun 25, 2009

"Cuban democracy honorees unable to attend ceremony" by Brittany Levine for the Miami Herald.

Jun 25, 2009

An editorial "A Dissident Deflected: Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?" from the Washington Post.

Jun 25, 2009

"Cuba Dissidents Win Award but Not Obama Audience" by Mary Beth Sheridan in the Washington Post.

Jun 23, 2009

“Magazine's Clandestine Look At Life In North Korea” by Anthony Kuhn, National Public Radio.

Jun 23, 2009

The Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum highlights the work of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, a NED grantee that created and maintains OMID, a database of victims of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Apr 22, 2009

In the Christian Science Monitor, a January report by NED's Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) examined the apparently growing problem of soft censorship: governments using their advertising funds to influence media coverage. :: more

April 2, 2009

"The Western Balkans: Challenges for U.S. and European Engagement," testimony of Ivana Howard, Program Officer for Central & Eastern Europe, National Endowment for Democracy, before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), United States Congress. :: MORE

Feb 4, 2009

In The New Republic, NED President Carl Gershman and former NED grantee Maina Kiai explore the little known history of Kenyan leader Tom Mboya, his links to Barack Obama, and how Mboya’s 1960’s political wisdom can still inform American and African democracy. :: more

Jan 26, 2009

CIMA senior director Marguerite Sullivan writes in the Washington Times about the importance of US assistance in developing independent media abroad. :: more

Jan 17, 2009

The work of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a NED Grantee, was featured in the 1/17/09 New York Times. :: more

Jan 13, 2009

Journal of Democracy Editor Marc Plattner writes in the Washington Post on why democracies are better equipped to weather the current global economic crisis. :: more

Dec 2, 2008

NED’s Brian Joseph talks Thailand on PBS NewsHour. NED’s Director for Southeast Asia Brian Joseph discussed recent events in Thailand. :: video

Mar 2, 2008

Barak Obama discusses funding for NED and democracy promotion in "Q&A: Obama on Foreign Policy," Washington Post.

Feb 27, 2008

NED grantee profiled in "Radio gives hope to North and South Koreans," by Susan Chun, CNN.