George Clooney and John Prendergast on how the West can kill the Wagner virus https://t.co/PGI4wzZAzC from @TheEconomist - @IanECox – mentions Sudan but word #Darfur is absent https://t.co/PGI4wzZAzC — AfriCommons… Read more »
“709 Crackdown 2.0” Global call against China’s renewed crackdown on human rights lawyers https://t.co/nCqIa7GCKs — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 11, 2023 Civil society and pro-democracy groups are marking China Human… Read more »
China has reportedly reached an agreement with Cuba to host an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island nation, which is roughly 100 miles from the coast of Florida, in what… Read more »
A new generation of protesters and dissidents need help to evade government controls. Free countries can develop and spread encryption software that protects their digital communications, as well as tools… Read more »
Democracy is declining or under threat all over the world, not necessarily in every country but in every region, in rich and poor countries, old and new democracies, Blake Hounshell and Max… Read more »
USAID today released its Dekleptification Guide, a new handbook for uprooting entrenched corruption and seizing windows of opportunity to dismantle kleptocracy: The Guide brings together lessons learned based on groundbreaking… Read more »
As Iran returns to talks over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with international powers, does the West really know who it’s negotiating with? The return to negotiations will be… Read more »
The new strategic competition requires “rebuilding traditions of democratic cooperation across party lines in recognition that the United States will not be able to meet the China challenge if U.S. political… Read more »
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will convene an online symposium honoring NED’s founding president, Carl Gershman. The event will include remarks by Gershman and two outstanding panels: Francis Fukuyama… Read more »
The narrative of democratic crisis and the populist surge is too one-sided. European politics is in fact in a state of push-and-pull between democratic rollback and democratic revival, argues Richard… Read more »