Sakharov Prize nominees revealed
Journalist Can Dündar and fellow defenders of freedom of thought and expression in Turkey, the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzemilev, the Yazidi survivors and public advocates Nadia Murad Basee… Read more »
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How to Stop Disinformation: Lessons from Ukraine
Information war and next-generation propaganda are among the most important challenges facing the world today, manifesting themselves in different forms in different places notes the latest ‘Beyond Propaganda‘ paper from… Read more »
Post-putsch Turkish democracy still vulnerable
In a dispute between NATO allies, Turkey is demanding that the United States extradite Fethullah Gulen (left), a Pennsylvania-based Turkish cleric, to face charges of engineering a coup attempt. But… Read more »
Putin’s ‘prelude to a purge’?
The arrest on June 24th of Nikita Belykh (above), the liberal-minded governor of the Kirovsk region, was headline news on Russian state television. It even preceded the report on… Read more »
Challenge the narratives of civil society ‘demonization’
Civil society groups have been subject to “widespread demonization” recent years, and 2015 was a “dismal one for civil society around the world,” according to a report by an international… Read more »
Activist ban highlights ‘existential threat’ to Egypt’s civil society
An Egyptian activist was prevented from flying to Beirut for a women’s rights conference on Monday after passport control officials told her she was banned from traveling, Reuters reports:… Read more »
How to promote values of liberal democracy in cyberspace
In the face of growing threats to internet and media freedom, it is vital to acknowledge the real and immediate threat that authoritarian states’ use of cyber technologies poses to… Read more »
27 years after Tiananmen, an opportunity for a political opening
Tens of thousands of people gathered in a Hong Kong park on Saturday evening to do what people across the border in mainland China could not: commemorate the anniversary of… Read more »
Cambodia’s democracy ‘in retreat’?
The Cambodian government should ask the United Nations to help it carry out a full and independent investigation into the October 26, 2015 attack on two opposition members of… Read more »
A Strategy for Democratic Renewal
Democracy is being challenged today as never before since the end of Cold War, notes Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy. Freedom House has recorded ten consecutive… Read more »