Thank you to the National Endowment for Democracy for inviting me. It’s an honor to be here with all of you who work so hard for the values we hold dear and to see the future of democracy in the faces of tonight’s honorees – those who are here to accept this award, and one courageous young man...

Thank you so much. I will be very brief. As I’m sure you’ve heard they’ve called votes, so we all have to run over there now. However, I do want to, on this the 30th anniversary of NED, thank NED and all of you for honoring these four very special individuals who are heroes to all of us who...

Presented by NED President Carl GershmanAccording to a fellow democracy activist who knew him well, the late Harold Cepero was driven by three fundamental values: compassion for the persecuted and the needy; a thirst for the truth; and an ability to forgive those who had mistreated him.Born...

Young activists from Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Russia and Cuba honored with 2013 Democracy Award View Photos from the 2013 Democracy...