February 19, 2019

Testimony to Canadian Parliament by NED President Carl Gershman

To the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development of the House of Commons of Canada Thank you, Chairman Levitt, for inviting me to testify this morning before your Committee. ...

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February 14, 2019

Digital Migration and the Democratization of Africa's Information...

03:00 PM - 04:30 PM

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow George Sarpong examined the approaches to digital migration in Africa, explained the legal and regulatory fault lines, and explored how migration strategies could undermine democratic principles.

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February 14, 2019

Forum Q&A: George Sarpong on Defending Media Freedom During Ghana’s...

Dean Jackson of the International Forum for Democratic Studies spoke with George Sarpong, a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, about the impact of new technology and Chinese influence on media freedom in Ghana...

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February 12, 2019

Carl Gershman Speaks at International Campaign for Tibet’s “Thank...

This evening Tibet is saying Thank You to America.  But I want to say Thank You to Tibet for four reasons. First, I want to thank Tibet for giving us His Holiness to teach and help guide us. He’s...

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February 11, 2019

Introduction of Anwar Ibrahim

Ffifteenth Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World It’s an extraordinary honor for me to introduce Anwar Ibrahim this evening to deliver the 15th annual Lipset Democracy Lecture. ...

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February 27, 2019

South Korea: Inspiration for Democracy in Asia

09:30 AM - 01:00 PM

This event featured two panel discussions, exploring how Korea’s democracy has been rejuvenated following the Candlelight Movement, and how South Korea can become a more robust leader to defend and promote democracy in the Asia region during a time where we see a major vacuum of traditional democratic leadership.

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February 11, 2019

Fifteenth Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: Confronting...

06:00 PM - 08:30 PM

Anwar Ibrahim, President of the People's Justice Party of Malaysia, presented the 15th annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World at the Embassy of Canada.

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January 31, 2019

Remembering Nadia Diuk

In the days since Nadia passed, the NED has received an incredible outpouring of messages of condolence and remembering.  I’m sure that what we received was but a small part of all the online posts, emails,...

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January 30, 2019

Kaine, Ros-Lehtinen, Sasse, Schadlow, Stefanik and Wollack join NED Board...

The National Endowment for Democracy has elected six new members to its Board of Directors. U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Ben Sasse (R-NE), U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY), former U.S. Representative...

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January 24, 2019

NED mourns the passing of dear friend and colleague Nadia Diuk

It was with deep sadness the Board and staff of the National Endowment for Democracy learned of the passing of our long-time colleague and friend Nadia Diuk.

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