Abiola Afolayan serves as foreign affairs policy advisor for a senior member of the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC, who is also the first woman Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism,...

Carl Gershman delivers the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture titled, "A Strategy for Democratic Renewal" on May 17, 2016.It’s a great honor for me to give a lecture in the name of John Hurford, who was a dear friend and member of the NED Board, and he was also an American...

Around the world, governments are devising new and elaborate methods to obstruct the activities of independent civil society. This includes using the forms of law to crack down on non-governmental organizations and erecting barriers to the ability...

The Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy is honored to host the 2015 Democracy Award honoring Political Prisoners of Venezuela. Accepting on behalf of Venezuela's imprisoned political leaders,...