Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance: bolstering democratic governance essential

July 24, 2017, 11:08 am

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Democracy, human rights, and governance should be integrated into foreign assistance programs, according to a report by a bipartisan Task Force on Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance. A new Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance should be created at USAID that would encompass governance, anticorruption, and rule-of-law programs, says the report, an initiative of […]

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European civil society facing fresh threats

January 22, 2018, 6:42 pm

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In many parts of the European Union, civil society is under threat, according to a new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Given the role civil society plays in upholding democratic processes and in promoting human rights, decision makers need to ensure the important work of civil society is not undermined […]

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USAID’s redesign: how do democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) fit in?

April 19, 2018, 2:23 pm

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How do democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) fit in to the USAID’s new redesign? Brookings analyst George Ingram asks. The DRG center would be located in the new Bureau for Development, Democracy and Innovation (DDI), but DRG issues are core to fragility, so how will they plug into the work of the R3 [Relief, […]

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RFP: anti-censorship technologies

July 12, 2018, 12:17 pm

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The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for long-term, core support for proven anti-censorship... Read more »

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Losing Egypt to collapse?

August 1, 2018, 8:07 am

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Over the weekend, a court in Egypt sentenced 75 people to death, The Washington Post reports: [Abdel Fatah al-] Sissi’s regime has cracked down not just on Islamists but also on a... Read more »

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Advancing democracy: a comparative advantage in foreign policy

April 1, 2019, 11:35 am

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Authoritarian populist leaders may seek to undermine democratic institutions, but recent developments in Brazil, Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey provide encouragement that liberal political forces are showing some signs of life... Read more »

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Supporting a United Ukraine

April 19, 2019, 9:09 am

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President Petro Poroshoenko and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the two candidates in Ukraine’s runoff presidential election, face off in an official debate in Kiev on Friday (RFE/RL:CFR). The vote will be... Read more »

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International Human Rights Day, 2019 — a wake-up and a warning

December 10, 2019, 10:45 am

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European Union Foreign Ministers have reportedly used the occasion of International Human Rights Day to approve an EU Magnitsky Act after Hungary dropped its objections. The EU has been considering... Read more »

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‘Democracy: From Theory to Practice’: Assessing decay, breakdown and renewal

January 29, 2020, 9:35 am

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The autocratic resurgence was a factor in prompting USAID to declare 2020 as the Year of Democracy and launch a campaign called #Democracy Is… in order “to highlight the interlocking... Read more »

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‘Changing the Face of Politics’: Women shaking Pakistan’s patriarchy

March 9, 2020, 9:45 am

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He calls himself “Pakistan’s biggest feminist”, but soap opera writer Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar sparked a national row this week after he hurled abuse at a women’s rights activist on live television,... Read more »

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