Crowdsourcing funds journalism where press freedom is weak
Wendy Funes was poring over judicial records when she discovered that the remains of human fetuses and newborns had been found in an indigenous area of her native Honduras. The… Read more »
Category: Civil Society
‘Factory of Lies’: Russia’s disinformation strategy and tactics
Factory of Lies is the name of a new television documentary introducing a number of journalists who have uncovered the hidden processes of the disinformation campaigns coming from Russia, EU vs Disinfo reports…. Read more »
‘Profound reshaping of political map’ will challenge Mexico’s ‘bourgeois’ civil society
Angry and frustrated over corruption and violence, Mexico’s voters delivered a tidal wave presidential election victory to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [aka AMLO], giving him a broad mandate to… Read more »
Orban’s chilling demand: ‘reconstruct European democracy’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has issued a chilling message to EU leaders ahead of today’s crunch European Council summit, saying that European democracy must be ‘reconstructed’ in order to… Read more »
IRGC takeover? Iran protests may change leadership, but not regime
Iran’s Supreme Leader demanded the judiciary punish those “who disrupt economic security” on Wednesday, following protests over the rial’s collapse and a tightening of U.S. sanctions pressure that has set… Read more »
Ethiopia’s reform moves from ‘symbolic gestures’ to ‘specific steps’?
On Saturday, June 23, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians rallied in the famous Meskel Square the heart of the capital city Addis Ababa, as citizen groups and human rights activists demonstrated support… Read more »
Lessons Learned: How West’s vulnerabilities facilitate Russian influence ops
Despite the evidence that Russia is trying to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections, are concerned about the administration’s alarming silence about what Moscow’s trolls and hackers are up to,… Read more »
Turkey’s election: cause for concern to every liberal democracy
With his victory in Sunday’s elections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken his place among the world’s emerging class of strongman rulers, nailing down the sweeping powers he has insisted he… Read more »
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National Democratic Institute Senior Communications Manager, Washington, D.C. Resident Program Manager – Citizen Election Observation: Iraq Freedom House Vice President, Communications and Advocacy – Washington, DC Director of Development –… Read more »
Is Tunisia’s civil society under threat?
Tunisian civil society activists worry that proposed legislation will roll back associational freedoms and will be used as a pretext for curbing hard-won rights, says the Project on Middle East… Read more »