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...

Remarks by Carl Gershman, President The National Endowment for DemocracyTaipei, TaiwanRemarks given at the first anniversary commemoration of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.Last Friday the United States observed...

Mort AbramowitzJune 18, 2007Upon leaving the NED Board, Mort Abramowitz was presented with the Democracy Service Medal.  Abramowitz served on the NED board for nine years, the maximum term allowed, and made invaluable...

An Hyuk, 35, was arrested after he voluntarily returned to North Korea from China and confessed his escape to the authorities. In January 1986 An Hyuk was accused of spying and detained in a secret detention center run by the State Security Protection Agency. For nearly two years he was imprisoned...