All posts tagged ngos/civil society

WikiLeaks show autocrats’ hypocrisy, won’t promote openness

The WikiLeaks cables may be irresponsibly endangering democracy and human rights advocates in repressive regimes, but they also illuminate the differences between democratic and autocratic states. “The juicy leaks rarely involve our democratic allies,” notes Elliott Abrams, a former deputy national security adviser, “but rather countries in which free elections, free speech and a free press

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WikiLeaks attacked for exposing vulnerable activists

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The WikiLeaks release of sensitive diplomatic cables is an irresponsible move that endangers democracy and human rights advocates

Attacks on Russian journalists exemplify ’systematic and relentless’ assault on media freedom

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Obama administration has called on Russian authorities to punish the perpetrators of the “heinous” assault on Kommersant

Engage civil society to revive ASEAN human rights agenda

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): ASEAN’s failure to back a commission of inquiry into human rights abuses in Burma is a “big blow”

Spying on the NED?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Revelations that the Kremlin was running a ring of Russian spies has done little to affect the reset

NED grantee may be forced to quit Chechnya

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The head of one of Russia’s leading human rights groups has announced that it may be forced to

New threat to Russia’s dissenters

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Even hardened KGB operatives were unnerved by veteran dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva: Back in the Soviet era, she would

Central Asia: don’t call dictators democrats

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Kyrgyzstan’s recent regime change is more likely to expand Russia’s influence than generate any democratic domino effect. “Illusions

Why China won’t rule the world

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The blend of political authoritarianism and market capitalism that is now lauded as the China model—or Beijing consensus

State Dept dissenter critical of democracy policy

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): President Barack Obama prefers “building ideas” to promoting democracy, a State Department insider claims.

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Zhovtis case shows Kazakh institutions’ failure to deliver

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A senior OSCE parliamentarian has met with imprisoned human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis at a prison colony in

US will promote Internet freedom, digital democracy

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The US Government will fund and facilitate innovative approaches to expanding internet freedom and access, Secretary of State

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