Supporting the Fourth Estate: What’s Been Done to Bolster Independent Media?
The world has reached a tipping point in the state of vibrant news media. Press freedom has fallen to its lowest point in over a decade, while the media system… Read more »
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Assessing Zimbabwe’s elections: another GNU in the making?
Amid indications that the first round of voting in Zimbabwe’s July 30 ‘harmonized’ elections may not produce a clear winner, some civil society groups started putting together building blocks for… Read more »
Reason to Hope? Turkey’s Elections Under State of Emergency
Turkey’s snap presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, will take place under a state of emergency and will bring in a new presidential system whatever the outcome, Human… Read more »
North Korea: civil society groups confront abysmal rights climate
The South Korean government should press the United States to discuss the appalling human rights situation in North Korea when US President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim… Read more »
North Korea’s Political Prison Camps: Testimonies of Detainee Families
An Investigation into the Human Rights Situation in North Korea’s Political Prison Camps: Testimonies of Detainee Families Presenter: JUNG GWANG-IL Founder and President, No Chain Discussants: To be confirmed Moderator: … Read more »
Russia ‘brazenly assaulting foundations of Western democracy’: how to counter Kremlin’s information warfare
The Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Research Agency operated dozens of Twitter accounts masquerading as local American news sources that collectively garnered more than half-a-million followers, Bloomberg’s Selina Wang reports: More than 100… Read more »
Zimbabwe’s ‘slow motion coup’: Zanu-PF hardliners and opposition call for Mugabe’s ouster
Thousands of demonstrators are expected to rally in Harare on Saturday as an unprecedented alliance of Zanu-PF hardliners and opposition activists seek to force Robert Mugabe step aside as Zimbabwe’s president,… Read more »
‘Meddle Kingdom’ rising: China and U.S. ‘neck and neck’ in foreign assistance
New research may suggest that Beijing has had a limited return on its investment in promoting its soft power and that pluralist democracies have an advantage in the field…. Read more »
Destined to collapse? North Korea’s Parallel Gulag
Is the North Korean regime destined to collapse? It is possible that North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and perhaps even some subjects of his despotic rule, would rather be obliterated… Read more »
Jobs and Opportunities
The National Endowment for Democracy is recruiting to fill a number of vacancies, including for the following full-time positions: Job #1775 – Vice President for Asia, Middle East & North… Read more »