New York Democracy Forum

New York Democracy Forum A forum for the world’s most important struggle in the world’s most important city. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has written that the most important development of the last one hundred years was “the emergence of democracy as the preeminently...

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Presentation of the Democracy Service Medal to Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet

Remarks by Dr. Judy Shelton Vice Chairman, NED Library of Congress Washington, D.C. Thank you, James Billington, our distinguished Librarian of Congress, for those warm words of welcome. And what a marvelous privilege to be here this morning in the world’s largest...

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Carl Gershman Presentation of the NED’s Democracy Service Medal to the Dalai Lama

Remarks by Carl Gershman Library of Congress Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 2010It’s a very great honor for me to read the NED’s tribute to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, after which Judy and I will have the distinct pleasure of...

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The National Endowment for Democracy, the Olympics, and Tibet

Recent English and Chinese-language articles published online by PRC government-controlled news services regarding Olympics-related activities and recent protests in Tibetan areas contain inaccurate and misleading statements about the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Unsubstantiated assertions...

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