U.S. Holocaust Museum Washington, D.C. When Mike Abramowitz invited me to address you today, to mark the 15th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica,  I accepted with a sense of honor and obligation. It is an honor to be in the presence of those who suffered so terribly yet...

[caption id="attachment_43616" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Students at a Democracy Summer Camp run by Yiaga Africa in in Nigeria in 2019. (Image courtesy...

The Role of Media in Humanitarian Crises: Lessons Learned from the Earthquake in Haiti from CIMA...

Carl Gershman, President of the NEDTranscript of Opening Remarks IRI Democracy Backlash SeminarBelgrade, SerbiaThank you, Liz and thank you to IRI for putting this meeting together. It's an important discussion. I am also very pleased to...

Ambassador Lyman began his government career with the U.S. Agency for International Development and served as USAID director in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 1976 to 1978. Subsequently, he was deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs (1981-1986),...

Helping democrats in closed societies Early investment by NED in the democratic struggles in the 1980s in Central Europe and the Soviet Union –  and many countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa – contributed to significant democratic breakthroughs.

NED HONORS AFRICAN ACTIVISTS WITH 2006 DEMOCRACY AWARD On June 27, the National Endowment for Democracy presented its annual Democracy Award to four democratic activists from Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe, and...

Four African democracy activists from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, Sudan and Zimbabwe have been chosen to receive the 2006 Democracy Award of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which will be presented on Tuesday, June 27 at an event in the U.S. Congress. The four honorees...

Enrique Bolaños, President of the Republic of NicaraguaFebruary 25, 2003When he was inaugurated as Nicaragua's 38th President on January 10, 2001, Enrique Bolaños Geyer pledged to uphold the principles of social justice and the rule...

Remarks by Carl Gershman, PresidentThe National Endowment for DemocracyChairman Smith, Congresswoman McKinney, and members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for offering me this opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the work of the National Endowment for Democracy...