05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
This International Day of Political Prisoners, NED and the October 30 Coalition will host Roll Call for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial to honor political prisoners around the world, call for their release, and recognize the families and communities keeping the hope of freedom alive.
10:00 AM - 03:00 PM
Five years after the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan’s democratic institutions have been dismantled, women and girls have been pushed out of public life, and the space for civic and political participation has sharply contracted. Yet Afghanistan’s democratic movement endures.
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
On June 3, the National Endowment for Democracy commemorated the victims of Tiananmen Square with a discussion featuring participants from the 1989 pro-democracy movement alongside leading advocates, analysts, and activists working to defend human rights and democratic freedoms.