One hundred countries joined Biden’s Summit for Democracy in December 2021 to demonstrate their commitment to, and develop strategies to defend, democracy during a time of increased autocratic threats. While
Laura Thornton and Annika Silva-Leander |18.02.2022
The 2021 edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index found the worst state of global democracy in the 16 years the index has been produced — even worse than
A survey across 55 democratic countries carried out on behalf of the French think tank Fondation pour l’innovation politique in collaboration with six other groups in 2021, published last month,
In a statement published on Wednesday, 26 January 2022, over 120 sitting parliamentarians from more than 40 countries and six continents call on the United Nations and its member governments
In an address to the 193-member General Assembly, UN chief António Guterres on Friday urged the world to “go into emergency mode” to tackle “a 5-alarm global fire” of the
From 9-10 December 2021, representatives from politics, civil society, and business from over a hundred countries gathered for the virtual Global Summit for Democracy on the invitation of the US
Last week, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), a leading intergovernmental organisation in the field of democracy support, published its annual report on “The Global State
Ahead of the Summit for Democracy that is hosted by US President Joe Biden in a virtual format on December 9 and 10, the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal (ICDR)
The United Nations’ COP26 climate conference in Glasgow that is ending today has drawn sharp criticism from civil society groups and climate activists who felt that they were marginalized and
Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) hosted an online Global People’s Assembly from 21 to 23 September 2021, in parallel to a high-level segment of the UN General Assembly
In advance of the UN’s COP26 climate conference, which will convene in Glasgow next month, a Global Citizens’ Assembly on the world climate and ecological crisis has been launched with
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