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June 10, 2022 - July 24, 2022
"To Find Us: Dialogues and Alterities" is a cycle of plays produced by International IDEA, USAID and the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM), with the aim of making visible the problems faced by historically excluded populations that need to be taken into account in the political agenda of the 2022 Regional and Municipal Elections.
Events
September 23, 2021 - September 24, 2021
Join us from 23 September to 24 September 2021 online or in-person for the 2021 Global Forum, Latin America and the Caribbean organized by FUNGLODE and International IDEA.
Events
June 16, 2021
International IDEA invites you to a new Debating Democracy webinar entitled: What’s happening to democracy in Latin America? on Wednesday 16 June 2021, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.
REGISTER HERE
Events
April 19, 2021
Amidst surging rates of Covid-19 infections and sharp economic contractions, citizens in Peru and Ecuador went to the polls on 11 April 2021 in presidential and legislative elections. Please join the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and International IDEA on Monday, 19 April 2021, from 15:00 – 16:30 EST to discuss the latest electoral results in Ecuador and Peru and what they may signal about democratic governance in the region more broadly.
Events
July 07, 2020
Peruvian Congress begins debate on political financing reform with the participation of the Secretary-General of IDEA International.
Events
May 13, 2020
The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which began in the city of Wuhan (China) on December 10, 2019, has quickly spread to the entire world, leaving more than 3 million people infected and more than 200,000 dead. By the end of April, Latin America had registered more than 170,000 infected people and 8,000 dead.
Events
August 16, 2019
IDEA Internacional participará en Mujeres de Cambio, un proyecto de Radio Programas del Perú para "presentar experiencias que aporten al bienestar común y, analizar los retos y desafíos que enfrentan las mujeres peruanas en el ámbito económico, social y político".
Events
April 08, 2024
The widespread use of generative artificial intelligence tools poses a challenge for journalism, both in terms of resource optimization and in preventing threats related to misinformation and fake news. According to Honduran digital transformation specialist Rogelio Umaña, it is important to strengthen the principles of good journalism to leverage technology for the benefit of political coverage.
News
March 15, 2024
The advancement of artificial intelligence brings opportunities for journalistic coverage in terms of task optimization and automation. At the same time, AI can bring risks, such as the proliferation of misinformation. Addressing these threats and seizing opportunities requires ongoing training and updating.
News
February 14, 2024
This Discussion Paper reviews the performance of 16 lobbying registers according to 3 interlinked dimensions: (a) transparency; (b) regulatory capacity; and (c) interoperability. Under ‘transparency’, the paper examines the scope of lobbying information collected by the register in question, as well as how that information is administered and subsequently disclosed.
Publication
September 26, 2023
La polarización tóxica amenaza a varias democracias en el mundo. En diversas sociedades se enfrentan extremos políticos que desconfían uno del otro y se presentan sin posibilidades de entendimiento.
Publication
January 23, 2023
As the political crisis in Peru worsens, Alicia del Aguila explores its roots. Key to understanding it are the political polarisation of recent years, tensions between the Central and Southern Andes, and the historical marginalisation of rural and indigenous people.
News
January 17, 2023
2023 will be complex and challenging for Latin America. The region will face an unfavourable international context in which it is expected, according to the IMF, that there will be a simultaneous slowdown of the three leading economies (United States, China, and the European Union), whose effect will be weak global economic growth of 2.7%, which could even fall below 2% according to its Director Kristalina Georgieva. A third of the global economy is forecast to be in recession this year.
News
October 12, 2021
Against a background of deteriorating informational environments, falling trust in state institutions and growing electoral result disputation, electoral processes and those who administer them are increasingly being placed under the microscope.
Podcast
June 04, 2021
More than 25 million Peruvians will go to the polls on 6 June to define in ballotage who will be their next President of the Republic. This election comes after five years marked by a political crisis caused by the confrontation between Congress and the Executive. In addition, since 2020, a severe health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has made Peru one of the countries with the most deaths per million inhabitants in the world.
News
May 28, 2021
What has happened to elections in Latin America in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic? How have the electoral management and judicial bodies faced the various challenges of the health crisis? Which best practices and lessons have been implemented to defend democracy in the region?
News
September 25, 2020
September 15 marked the International Day of Democracy. To date there is agreement that the pandemic is not only the worst health, socioeconomic, and humanitarian crisis ever seen in Latin America; it is accompanied by a serious challenge to governance.
The current moment is particularly apt for taking the region’s pulse as regards the effects of the coronavirus on democracy in Latin America.
News
September 15, 2020
More than 160 leaders from Latin America, including 21 former presidents, have signed a joint declaration calling to defend democracy in the region. The document, brought forward by renowned pro-democracy organizations, warns that our cherished civil freedoms are threatened by political actors who could use the crisis to illegitimately tighten their grip on power.
News