We support the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association.
Civil Rights Defenders defends people’s civil and political rights and empowers human rights defenders worldwide. Its Executive Director, Robert Hårdh, currently serves a Steering Committee member of the World Movement for Democracy.
The Endowment is guided by the belief that freedom is a universal human aspiration that can be realized through the development of democratic institutions, procedures, and values. Democracy cannot be achieved through a single election and need not be based upon the model of the United States or any other particular country.
The Journal of Democracy is the world’s leading publication on the theory and practice of democracy. Since its first appearance in 1990, it has engaged both activists and intellectuals in critical discussions of the problems of and prospects for democracy around the world. Today, the Journal is at the center of debate on the major…