Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
John Burgess discussed his new CIMA report, Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, which examines the strengths and shortcomings of media freedom indexes-in particular IREX's Media Sustainability Index, Freedom House's Freedom of the Press, and Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index- and offers recommendations to improve these and other studies.
Democracy Service Medal Presentation to the Honorable Vin...
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
The National Endowment for Democracy honored its former Chairman Vin Weber with the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal at a Capitol Hill ceremony on July 20, 2010.
Community of Democracies Tenth Anniversary
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In July, 2010, 87 official delegations and more than 200 civil society activists from around the world gathered in Krakow, Poland to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Community of Democracies (CD), recommit to the principles of its Warsaw Declaration, and to discuss improving and expanding its work. Attendees included US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałesa.
Azerbaijan: Being More Than a Number
Freedom of speech around the world has come under renewed assault, and in Azerbaijan the government has been particularly aggressive in policing online expression. One NED grantee’s YouTube video satire has...
Can Anyone Hear Us? Voices from the 2009 Unrest in Urumchi
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In advance of the one-year anniversary of the Urumchi unrest, analysts assessed the causes of the transformation of peaceful demonstrations into deadly inter-ethnic violence, government policy responses to the unrest, the effect of those policies on Uyghur and Han populations in Xinjiang, and the likely outcomes of the May 2010 Xinjiang Work Conference hosted by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Democracy in East Asia: An Elephant’s Graveyard?
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
In his presentation, Dr. Benjamin Reilly explained the competing trends of democratic reform and democratic pushback across Northeast and Southeast Asia, and addressed the broader implications of this distinctive process of democratization in East Asia.
Agenda: One Year Later: Prospects for a Democratic Transition in Iran
Opening Statements Senator Ted Kaufman (see video/read remarks) Senator John McCain (see video/read remarks) Panel I: Lessons from Other Transitions to Democracy Presenters Larry Diamond, Stanford...
Remembering Floribert Chebeya
By Dave Peterson Floribert’s murder is an enormous outrage. He was undoubtedly Congo’s most prominent, committed, courageous human rights activist. From his early years when he won the...
Bloggers Behind Bars: In honor of World Press Freedom Day,...
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
In honor of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2010, the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance hosted a morning of discussions on Capitol Hill entitled “Bloggers Behind Bars.”
IN REMEMBRANCE OF FLORIBERT CHEBEYA
Learned Dees Democracy and Human Rights Officer for the Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. It is with deep sadness that I learned today of the apparent assassination...
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