May 03, 2000

2000 NED Democracy Award honors Heroes of Human Rights and...

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

The Endowment presented its 2000 Democracy Award to Veton Surroi, the editor and publisher of Koha Ditore, the most widely read Albanian language daily in Kosovo, and Natasa Kandic, head of the Belgrade-based human rights organization, the Humanitarian Law Center, which has been documenting human rights violations in Yugoslavia since 1992.

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October 20, 1999

1999 Democracy Service Medal Presented to Alexandr Vondra...

05:00 PM - 07:30 PM

Czech and Slovak representatives joined members of Congress, friends of NED, and representatives of the international community on Capitol Hill October 20 to celebrate and reflect on the 10th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Czech Ambassador to the United States Alexandr Vondra and Slovak Ambassador to the United States Martin Bútora were awarded NED's Democracy Service Medal for their critical roles in the successful revolution, and in the subsequent transition to democracy.

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May 25, 1999

1999 Democracy Award

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

On May 25, Nigeria's Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of more than 60 Nigerian civic organizations, received the 1999 Democracy Award.

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