Burmese women lead the fight for rights and inclusion ahead of 2020 elections
In late 2020, Burma will hold a national election, the second since the country’s democratic opening in 1990. Since those historic nationwide elections in 2015, Burma has experienced an alarming regression—a...
International Forum for Democratic Studies March 2020 Newsletter
The March 2020 edition of the Forum newsletter features new content, event recaps, and more.
Carl Gershman in The Globe and Mail
In his 1970 Nobel Lecture in literature, the famous Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn declared that the violence that is at the root of communist totalitarianism – the Stalinist labour camps...
Nigerian Women Speak Up about Boko Haram for the First Time
Since 2009, the Boko Haram insurgency has devastated northeast Nigeria and the border regions of Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. Despite suffering horrific atrocities, some Nigerian women have transformed over the...
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