Film introduction Rebiya Kadeer Remarks by Rep. Jim McGovern(D-MA) Chairman, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission About the Event

A FORWARD STRATEGY FOR DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN 2008 AND BEYOND: REGAINING THE MOMENTUM, The House of Commons I want to thank Bruce George for that kind introduction. As I learned when he visited me in Washington a couple of months ago, Bruce George is a real fighter...

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...

Introduction by Thomas Donahue, Chair, Committee for Free Trade Unionism The Albert Shanker Institute THOMAS DONAHUE: There are few people who have spent as many years and as much energy and concentrated attention on the problems of aiding democratic forces...

VIN WEBER, CHAIRMAN, NED Mr. Havel, will you please come forward? I'd also like to ask our dissident friends to join me here on the podium. The Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy created its Democracy Service Medal to recognize individuals...

Kenneth Wollack, President, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)Sixteen years ago, in 1991, NDI recognized Václav Havel with its W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, honoring...

Variety of actors, programs supports change in Indonesia A variety of programs and grantees supported by NED and its four core institutes were part of the growing civil society that stepped forward throughout the 1990s to demand reforms in Indonesia. The public outcry that poured forth in the...

NED programs focus on long-term effort to open up CubaDespite the challenges of and barriers to working within a closed, totalitarian system, over the past seven years NED has developed a program that supports a wide variety of independent social actors inside of Cuba, from human rights activists...

HONORING the Heroes of Human Rights and Democracy in Cuba On Wednesday June 24, 2009, the National Endowment for Democracy honored the...