Oct 19, 2011

News

NED President included as one of TNR’s ‘Favorite People’

The November 3 issue of The New Republic includes NED President Carl Gershman on an editors’ list of “Our Favorite People.”

“When you hear about ‘democracy promotion,’ someone is very likely talking about Carl Gershman,” The New Republic writes. “Perhaps more than anyone else in Washington, Gershman ensures that news of oppression gets out and that opponents of tyranny receive assistance … He has been at it, indifferent to partisan U.S. politics, for more than a quarter of a century. Who else in Washington has benefitted so many people in so many places for so many years?”

Radwan Ziadeh, a former Reagan-Fascell fellow at the NED and head of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, was also included in the list for his tireless work for human rights and democracy in Syria.

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