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...

Honorable Senators and Representatives for the United States of America, Distinguished members of the National Endowment for Democracy’s Board of Directors, Ladies and Gentlemen,Thank you to the Congress of the United States of America and the National Endowment for Democracy for your never-ending...

The Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy is honored to host the 2015 Democracy Award honoring Political Prisoners of Venezuela. Accepting on behalf of Venezuela's imprisoned political leaders,...

Rebecca Aaberg is program officer for the Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD). She has played a lead role in organizing democracy education programs in Colombia, Kosovo, and Tunisia and is currently working on a series of democracy education workshops that...