Remarks by NED President Carl Gershman to the Institute of Social Sciences
India-U.S. Relations: Building Democratic Cooperation New Delhi, August 7, 2018 For more than two decades I have been part of an effort by a small group of Americans associated with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the...
NED Mourns the Loss of Senator John McCain
The Board of Directors and staff of the National Endowment for Democracy were deeply saddened to learn of the...
Supporting Democracy in Challenging Times
Remarks by Carl Gershman at CSIS Forum, July 17, 2018
Carl Gershman on Taiwan’s Democracy and the Democratic Future
Keynote address at The 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy It’s a great honor for me to make keynote remarks at this celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), and to follow President Tsai Ing-wen, who is an...
Testimony of Carl Gershman at Democracy Promotion in a Challenging World Hearing
I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your continued support for the National Endowment for Democracy. The NED was authorized by Congress in 1983 as an independent grant-making organization to fund brave actors on...
Central and Eastern Europe: Power, Fairness, and the Future of Democracy
About the event After the revolutions of 1989, Central and Eastern Europe was an exciting place to watch, with democracy seemingly poised to take root. Yet, nearly thirty years later, Westerners who had invested so much in promoting democracy...
GODDESS OF DEMOCRACY: SYMBOL OF DEMOCRACY AROUND THE GLOBE
The NED’s Democracy Award is a small-scale replica of the Goddess of Democracy that was constructed in Tiananmen...
Crimean Tatar Hero Mustafa Dzhemilev Honored by NED with the Democracy Service Medal
[caption id="attachment_20280" align="alignleft" width="600"] Mustafa Dzhemilev[/caption] The National Endowment for Democracy...
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...
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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