Damon Wilson on Faith Under Siege at the IRI Religious Freedom Conference
At IRI’s 2025 Religious Freedom Conference, NED President and CEO Damon Wilson warned of the CCP’s escalating repression of religious communities and called on democracies to stand in solidarity with those...
NED Statement on Forged Document
October 6, 2025 — A fabricated document presented as a memorandum from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) recently appeared on social media in the Philippines. The document, which uses NED’s...
EVENT RECAP: Breaking Through: How Citizens Are Fighting Modern Authoritarian...
Authoritarian regimes worldwide are intensifying their crackdown on independent voices—silencing dissent, restricting access to information, and punishing those who refuse to conform. On September...
Impact Report: Strengthening Ukraine’s Democratic Resilience and Countering...
Democracy fuels resilience. NED’s Impact Report highlights Ukrainians documenting war crimes, driving reform, and keeping freedom alive.
Damon Wilson on Cuba’s Path to Freedom at Directorio’s 35th Anniversary
At the 35th Anniversary Conference of Directorio Democrático Cubano in Miami, NED President and CEO Damon Wilson reaffirmed NED’s support for Cuban democracy.
NED Impact Report: Protecting Free Speech and Countering Authoritarian...
Free speech fuels freedom. NED’s Impact Report highlights the brave voices breaking censorship and giving people the power to decide for themselves.
China Salon Event Recap: How the PRC Is Using AI to Censor, Surveil, and...
In China today, AI can censor a million online posts in less than a second and generate convincing propaganda at a keystroke. At the latest in the China Salon series of events hosted by the National Endowment...
Op-Ed: Fighting Authoritarian Censorship
In Newsmax, NED’s Board Chairman Peter Roskam warns that authoritarian regimes are no longer confining censorship to their own citizens—they’re exporting it abroad, and in particular, to the...
NED Marks Ten Years as an “Undesirable”
NED targeted by the Kremlin for its work advancing freedom Washington, D.C., July 29 – Today, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) marks the ten-year anniversary of a remarkable designation: in...
Event Recap: NED 2025 Democracy Service Medal Awarded to Oswaldo Payá
On July 22, NED posthumously awarded the Democracy Service Medal to Oswaldo Payá, one of Cuba’s most principled advocates of peaceful democratic change.
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