As Mexico prepares for general elections in July, NDI and Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) – the independent government body responsible for organizing Mexico’s federal elections – co-organized a conference in Mexico City to discuss ways to counter the influence of disinformation. Tech companies, political leaders, civic activists, media associations and academics came together on March 22 to discuss ways to improve the quality of the national conversation.

Iraqi women are leading the charge to find new avenues for open and honest dialogue on national reconciliation. In the wake of the devastation left behind by the Islamic State of Iraq Syria (ISIS), and at a time of weak social cohesion and trust deficits, women are taking on the challenge to build bridges across communities to advance a democratic, economically prosperous and peaceful Iraq.

On March 19, 130 women and men gathered in the Assembly of Kosovo as NDI opened its sixth Week of Women (WoW). For many of the participants, who came from all across Kosovo and included most of the country’s minority groups and 16 political parties, this was their first time in the Assembly.

Women are building Ukraine’s future and playing prominent roles more than ever before in the nation’s democratic transition – particularly since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity (also known as Euromaidan). Public demand for new faces in government, and calls for sweeping political reform, have fueled both the increased election of women and the introduction of legislation to address gender inequities. And in 2017, the Cabinet of Ministers created a new position – Gender Equality Commissioner – to respond to the growing demand for government action on gender issues.