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...