Carl Gershman’s Remarks During 2018 Democracy Service Medal Presentation to Mustafa Dzhemilev

Two traumatic events, 70 years apart, frame the life and struggles of Mustafa Dzhemilev.  The first was Stalin’s forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia on May 18, 1944, a crime that uprooted and decimated...

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Mustafa: Film Screening and Discussion

Watch A Recording of the event here. About the event When Mustafa Dzhemilev was named Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of Crimean Tatars in 2014,...

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Remembering Li Baiguang

Remarks Delivered by Carl Gershman at the Memorial Service Organized by ChinaAid Washington, D.C. , March 22, 2018 When the National Endowment for Democracy presented Li Baiguang with its Democracy Award in 2008, just weeks before the Beijing Olympics, we noted...

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Chinese Expansionism and the Future of Tibet

Testimony by Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy At the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs On “U.S. Policy Towards Tibet: Access, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights” Thank...

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