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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »