Keynote address by NED President Carl Gershman at the Kyiv Jewish Forum I want to thank Boris Lozhkin and the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for inviting me to speak to you today.  This forum is taking place exactly five years after the “Thinking Together” conference that Tim...

In recent years the NED and other organizations working to advance democracy have been challenged by what is commonly called a democratic recession.   The term refers to a global crisis of democracy that has a number of different dimensions: the rising power of authoritarian...

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.  I applaud the fact that you are initiating a study of Canada’s role in supporting...