About the Event Current events suggest that Angola today faces an economic and political crisis. The global collapse of oil prices, a series of anti-NGO regulations, repressed protests, and the trial of youth activists have deeply affected...

Azadeh Pourzand is a project director at International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), focusing on civil society strengthening, governance and media programs. Azadeh has 5 years of experience working in the fields of international...

I am very pleased and thankful for this award. I am very pleased to be here. In Russia last year, we had massive protests. There were many thousands of people who were going out in the streets, many of them for the first time, to show that they want the political system to be more liberal, to be more...