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"In a recently released communiqué, election experts and practitioners from across Africa have called on African countries to ratify the African Union’s (AU) charter on elections and enforce its standards to achieve more peaceful and credible elections...
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At least one independent monitoring group reported a turnout rate lower than the official one. Hagamos Democracia, the local partner of the U.S. government-funded National Democratic Institute, said its count of 1,000 polling stations put turnout at about 48 percent. The count had a margin of error of 1.8 percentage points.
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The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy this week.
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Al Quds Center for Political Studies, one of NDI-Jordan's civil society partners, released its third parliamentary monitoring report which covered the extraordinary session of parliament held in July and August of 2009.
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Three major parties in Sindh Assembly have agreed to work together to strengthen the role of parliamentary parties to ensure that the parliament is the supreme body in a democracy.
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The enlightenment campaign on electoral reforms organized by the National Democratic Institute NDI for the South South zone has ended in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, drawing participants from across the zone to contribute their views on the on-going process of reform.
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The explosion of online media gives democracy activists living in countries such as Iran powerful tools, according to experts and observers who were part of a panel for a recent U.S. Helsinki Commission briefing in Washington. The commission oversees U.S. adoption of a wide-ranging international rights agreement signed in 1975.
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The National Democratic Institute (NDI) for International Affairs, a non-partisan organization working to support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide, held a consultative meeting in Karachi, Pakistan, with parliamentary leaders of the Sindh Assembly on Thursday.
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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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"Transparency and national security are among the urgent needs for the runoff elections scheduled for Nov. 7 in Afghanistan, [NDI] said.
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