New York Democracy Forum A forum for the world’s most important struggle in the world’s most important city. The Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has written that the most important development of the last one hundred years was “the emergence of democracy as the preeminently...

Initiative unites democracy advocates from around the globeAn initiative to build and strengthen collaboration among democrats from every region of the world has gained considerable momentum since its first, historic meeting in February 1999, when 400 participants from more than 80 countries...

Carl Gershman, PresidentThe National Endowment for DemocracyNew Delhi, IndiaWelcoming Remarks at the Inaugural Conference of the Asian Center for Democratic Development, January 7, 2001I'm delighted to be with you at the launching of the Asian...

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) categorically rejects claims that it has supported censorship of Americans or targeted U.S. media outlets. NED’s mandate, set by Congress, is to support democratic freedoms outside the United States, and NED...