In his 1970 Nobel Lecture in literature, the famous Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn declared that the violence that is at the root of communist totalitarianism...

The United States Capitol         June 4, 2019 It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Award ceremony, which this year is taking place on the 30

Remarks made by NED Chairman Andrew H. Card, Jr. at IRI 2019 Freedom Dinner Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Good evening, It...

May 7, 2019 Washington, DC – The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will honor the late Senator John McCain with a posthumous presentation of NED’s Democracy...

Remarks by NED President Carl Gershman to The Seventh Meeting of the World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet in Riga, Latvia             May 9, 2019 Just a month...

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Eulogy Delivered by NED President Carl Gershman on January 31, 2019 In the days since Nadia passed, the NED has received an incredible outpouring of messages of condolence and remembering.  I’m sure that what we received was but a small part of all the online posts, emails,...

Responding to China in the New Era The United States Congress, December 10, 2018 The first and most important point I want to convey to you this morning is that we are now in an entirely new period in relations between the United States and China. In my view,...

With great sadness, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) mourns the loss Lyudmila Alexseyeva, the

I want to thank Andy and Mike Manatos and the Oxi Day Foundation for giving this important Oxi Courage Award to Liu Xia, a Chinese poet and photographer and a woman of unparalleled moral courage. I had the rare privilege of meeting Liu Xia last month in New York when we were both there to take part...