The Youth Leadership and Democratic Transitions in Africa regional meeting was held on March 12-14, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal and brought democracy activists together to discuss the path forward for emerging African democracy movements. The meeting featured plenary sessions and workshops to discuss: the role of civil society and political society in building democracy movements;…
The newly launched Open Election Data Initiative (OEDI) offers a suite of tools for improving election transparency by making it easy for citizens to understand and analyze election data. It was created by Google, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and is available in Arabic, English, French,…
The World Movement for Democracy is alarmed to report there has been a recent crackdown on freedom of expression in Ecuador after President Rafael Correa’s former vice president, Lenin Moreno, narrowly defeated opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso in the April 2 runoff elections. Shortly after the election, police officers raided the office of the Ecuadorian NGO…
On April 11, 2017, Congolese civil society organization La Voix Des Sans Voix Pour Les Droits De L’Homme (VSV) issued a statement condemning the government’s decision to ban public protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The ban was intended to prevent the opposition political party Union for Democracy and Social Progress from…