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‘Red Memory’: Cultural Revolution’s costs to China’s society

DemDigest    February 3, 2023 February 3, 2023   

Only when accountability and democracy have arrived can China hope to begin the process of addressing the Cultural Revolution’s lingering injustices, says democracy activist Nathan Law. Tania Branigan’s searching ‘Red… Read more »

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Asia, Authoritarianism, China    #africa #china #sharppower #nedemocracy, China

EU shows political to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty and democratic values

DemDigest    February 3, 2023 February 3, 2023   

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and 15 commissioners went to Ukraine on Thursday in the first visit of its kind to a country at war, Foreign Policy reports…. Read more »

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Analysis, Central/Eastern Europe, Ukraine    #ukraine #nationalendowmentfordemocracy

‘Spoiler Alert’: Recovery from kleptocracy

DemDigest    February 3, 2023 February 3, 2023   

The Belgian government this week honored civil society activist Rafael Marques de Morais for his work in combatting endemic corruption in Angola. The founder of Maka Angola and former Reagan-Fascell… Read more »

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Africa, Angola, Central/Eastern Europe, corruption    #kleptocracy #nedemocracy

Frontline democracy and the battle for Ukraine

DemDigest    February 2, 2023 February 3, 2023   

The long decline of global democracy stalled in 2022, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from The Economist Intelligence Unit, Frontline democracy and the battle for Ukraine:… Read more »

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Analysis, Democratization    Ukraine

Global Human Rights Defenders ‘claiming the democratic future’

DemDigest    February 2, 2023 February 2, 2023   

The U.S. Department of State has announced the winners of the annual Global Human Rights Defender Awards, determined by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. From working to… Read more »

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Human rights    #africa #nationalendowmentfordemocracy, #globalhumanrightsdefenders

Russia ‘acquiring features of dictatorship’

DemDigest    February 2, 2023 February 2, 2023   

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves around the world and revealed divisions between the developed democracies backing Ukraine and many developing countries that chose not to take sides, according to… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, Civil Society, Eurasia, Russia, Ukraine    #nedemocracy #memorial #russia

Iran’s ‘transformational season of protest’ prompts fierce crackdown

DemDigest    February 2, 2023 February 2, 2023   

Four months into Iran’s uprising, protesters are still in the streets. Authorities are still answering with violence and intimidation, The Washington Post reports: Nowhere is this bloody stalemate more evident than in… Read more »

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Iran, Middle East/North Africa    #iran #boroumand #gamaan #NEDEMOCRACY

R.I.P. Vo Van Ai – Vietnam’s tireless rights defender

DemDigest    January 31, 2023 February 1, 2023   

Vo Van Ai, a tireless militant in defense of religious freedom and human rights in Vietnam, died on January 26, in Paris, of complications from heart surgery. He was 88… Read more »

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Asia, Vietnam    #NationalEndowmentforDemocracy, #VoVanAi, QuêMe:ActionforDemocracyinVietnam, Vietnam

Venezuela’s new stranglehold on civil society

DemDigest    January 31, 2023 January 31, 2023   

Venezuela’s democratic opposition is pinning its hopes on the 2024 presidential election, a return to a strategy that has mostly failed over the past 25 years, Bloomberg reports. Even if… Read more »

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Analysis, Authoritarianism, Civil Society, Latin America/Caribbean, Venezuela    #vENEZUELA #MADURO #GUAIDO #DEMOCRACY #NATIONALENDOEMENTFORDEMOCRACY

Latin America’s strongest democracy offers many lessons

DemDigest    January 31, 2023 February 2, 2023   

The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked it the 13th strongest democracy in the world, ahead of the United Kingdom (#18), Spain (#24) and the United States (#26), and well ahead of… Read more »

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Latin America/Caribbean, Uruguay    #NationalEndowmentforDemocracy (NED), Uruguay

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