About the EventCivil society and independent media play crucial roles in effective public policy-making and for improving public discourse. In countries such as Egypt, Russia, and Vietnam, it is clear that encouraging the development of civil...

A New Report by the International Forum for Democratic StudiesPublished October 2015

During his eight-year tenure as mayor of one of the five municipalities of Caracas, Leopoldo Lopez won first-prize awards from Transparency International for running Venezuela’s most honest and efficient municipal administration. The year after he left office, Leopoldo founded the political party...

By Carl Gershman National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman writes an op-end on Russia's "Undesirable Organization" list Russia’s newest anti-NGO law, under which the National Endowment for Democracy on Tuesday was declared...