04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
The International Forum for Democratic Studies and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) honored Larry Diamond with NED’s Democracy Service Medal.
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Women activists from Burma, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Thailand shared their plans to promote women’s political participation amid closing civic space in the region and conveyed recommendations on how international stakeholders should engage with backsliding democracies in ASEAN.
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
NED made a posthumous presentation of the Democracy Service Medal to honor the life and legacy of Fred Hiatt at an event focused on the important work of journalists from frontline countries and the dangers and challenges they face.
