The selection process of the United Nations Secretary-General is underway. The process is obscure, the timeline unclear and the stakeholders are meeting behind closed doors. This is problematic on a…

Die weltweite Autokratisierungswelle schreitet auch im Jahr 2020 voran. In der globalen Entwicklung ist die Demokratisierung in den letzten Jahren in etwa auf das Niveau von 1990 zurückgefallen. Dies ist…

Democracy is under pressure across the world. According to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a United States-based non-partisan think-tank, the balance is shifting further “in favour of tyranny”….

Freedom House’s 2021 Freedom in the World report casts the state of democracy worldwide as dire, with global freedom declining for the 15th straight year and with the gap between the countries seeing…

Democracy Without Borders (DWB) war von Beginn an Teil der 2017 ins Leben gerufenen UN2020-Kampagne. Nun, da sowohl das 75-jährige Jubiläum der UN als auch das Jahr 2020 vergangen sind,…

Dena Freeman, Senior Visiting Fellow am Institut für Anthropologie der London School of Economics und Beraterin von Democracy Without Borders, stellt in ihrem neuesten Buch eine einfache Frage: Kann Globalisierung…

Democracy Without Borders promotes global democracy. But is it self-evident what this means? This article highlights two perspectives which this term includes. What is democracy? Before elaborating on the global…

On February 16th the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS) hosted an online session on the question of a global referendum as part of their conference A Planetary Moment…

In the 2020 edition of their Democracy Index, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recorded the worst state of global democracy since the index was first produced in 2006. Snapshot of…

China bleibt die größte globale Bedrohung für die Menschenrechte Vor kurzem hat Human Rights Watch (HRW) den 31. Jahresbericht der Organisation über den Zustand der Menschenrechte weltweit veröffentlicht. Der Bericht…

The UN was conceived as a ground-breaking experiment in global cooperation and people-centred multilateralism. Born out of the ashes of the Second World War, its Charter outlines four lofty aspirations in the…