Addressing the potential of new information and social networking technologies, former Secretary of State and NDI Chairman Madeleine Albright spoke at the Dec. 5 launch of a new initiative aimed at using technology to improve communications between citizens and their government. “Democracy thrives on diversity and becomes stronger through vigorous debate,” she said. “Its very identity is based on the free expression of popular will.”
More than 65 percent of Jordanians are under the age of 30, and 43 percent of potential voters are 18 to 25. Those demographics carry the potential for accelerated political reform, provided the country's young people, who have historically been excluded from the political process, decide to make their voices heard.
"Why women, why now?" was the question posed to over 300 participants, both male and female, participating in a week-long series of training sessions across Mexico aimed at giving women candidates the skills and tools they need to get elected to office.
The Washington Post editorial board writes that the message of the late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá that democratic change has not yet come to Cuba lives on, as his daughter Rosa María seeks an international investigation of the car crash that killed him.
The daughter of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá is calling for an international investigation into the car crash that killed her father. She said that two months before the fatal incident, for which the Payá family believes the Cuban government was responsible, someone forced her father’s car into another accident.
Rosa María Payá recently told an audience at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that she would ask the Inter-American Human Rights Commission for an investigation of the car crash that killed her father, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá. Payá said her family is requesting the investigation "to draw attention to the repression of people in Cuba."
Since its independence in 1960, the Central African Republic (CAR) has struggled to overcome political instability, mutinies and rebellions. On March 24, a coalition of rebel groups, Seleka (“union” in Sango), overthrew the government of President Francois Bozizé. Following the coup, one of the rebel leaders, Michel Djotodia, appointed himself president, formed a new government and stated his intent to remain in power until presidential elections are held in 2016. Following the coup, citizens have faced pervasive looting, and a lack of water and electricity.
The National Endowment for Democracy and the National Democratic Institute cordially invite you to:
“Democracy and Human Rights in Cuba: The Legacy of Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas”
Tuesday, April 9
9:00-10:30 a.m.
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