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The Canadian newspaper the St. Albert Gazette recently highlighted Canadians working to support democracy in the Middle East.
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James Traub recently wrote about the international community’s role in supporting democratic developments in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia. In his piece, Traub quotes NDI President Kenneth Wollack about how the United States goes about helping these countries develop institutions that can build and sustain democracy.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show where he addressed the current political situation in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East.
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"After decades of civil war, and several years of tenuous peace, southern Sudan is preparing to decide whether to split from the north to form a separate nation...
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Appearing on the PBS NewsHour, Chris Fomunyoh, NDI’s senior associate and regional director for Central and West Africa, emphasized the importance of a quick resolution to the stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire, or the Ivory Coast.
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“On May 10, for the first time, Filipinos will choose their local and national leaders through a totally automated election system. The intent is to usher in a new era of politics free of ballot tampering.
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A leading human rights organization yesterday called on the Bahraini government to open up this year's parliamentary elections to international monitoring. Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) secretary general Abdulla Al Derazi said his organization was in constant contact with international adjudicators such as NDI and believed it was a natural progression for the 2010 elections to be scrutinised in this way.
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Since 2008, NDI has partnered with Al Quds Center for Political Studies to launch a parliamentary monitoring program, and Al Quds has subsequently made history by publishing the first ever reports on parliamentary monitoring in Jordan.
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Al Quds Center for Political Studies – NDI's partner in Jordan for parliamentary monitoring – conducted a conference on debating a parliamentary code of conduct and amending parliament's bylaws on Jan. 12.
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Afghanistan is scrambling to prepare for a Nov. 7 runoff vote to resolve the political stalemate following the blatant rigging of the August presidential election...
The fallout from the first election could possibly shame the two leading candidates into behaving better.
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