The EU and US announced the establishment of an EU-US Trade and Technology Alliance in June 2021. This alliance will be supported by a Trade and Technology Council, and will cooperate on the development of new technologies based on shared democratic values, including respect for human rights.
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Join Jorge Moreira da Silva, Director, OECD Development Co-operation, for a discussion on rising threats to democracy and human rights with Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora and the journalist, Maria Ressa.
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This side event at the 14th Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) will serve as a brief introduction to International IDEA's publication, “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Constitutions Assessment Tool” published in August 2020.
In recognition of the Swedish Parliament’s ongoing 100-year jubilee of the democratic process, the Stockholm Philanthropy Symposium, International IDEA, International YOUTH Think Tank, and Athens Democracy Forum have joined forces to organize the Almedalen Democracy
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is proud to host the third annual SIPRI Lecture, held on the theme of ‘Democracy in a Post-Covid World’. The lecture will be held virtually on 24 May 2021.
The Gwangju Democracy Forum (GDF) is an annual international meeting that brings together democracy advocates, activists, researchers, and policymakers to discuss and reflect on the state and challenges of democracy at the local, national and global levels as a way to commemorate and practice globally the spirit of May18 Gwangju Democracy movement in1980.
While the trend of democratic decline has been observed for several years, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation, with some countries seeing it as a pretext to tighten their grip on power beyond the necessary health measures.
Se prevé que la crisis actual tendrá un impacto humanitario y socioeconómico de gran alcance y a largo plazo. Nos encontramos ante una oportunidad de repensar y reformular las normas y las políticas para una recuperación social y económica con un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos, que no deje a nadie atrás.
The Covid-19 crisis is expected to have a far-reaching and long-term humanitarian and socio-economic impact. Nevertheless, we are also faced with the opportunity to rethink and redefine norms and policies for a social and economic recovery with a human rights-based approach to build a greener, healthier and more equitable world where no one is left behind.
More than 40 years after the entry into force of CEDAW and 26 years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, progress around women’s full and equal political participation has stalled and gender balance remains a long way off. Women only make up 25% of all national parliamentarians, 36% of local government members, and 21% of ministers. Only 23 countries are headed by a woman Head of State or Government, and States have yet to have a woman leader.
Más de 40 años después de la entrada en vigor de la CEDAW y 26 años después de la Cuarta Conferencia Mundial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Mujer en Beijing, los progresos en torno a la participación plena e igualitaria de las mujeres en política se han estancado y la igualdad de género sigue estando muy lejos. Las mujeres sólo representan el 25% de todos los parlamentarios nacionales, el 36% de los miembros del gobierno local y el 21% de los ministerios.
International IDEA will co-organize two sessions during the seventh edition of Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF21), hosted by The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on 10-12 May 2021. The event will focus on the topic of Mobilising for Digital Resilience – a free, open, and secure internet in the shifting landscapes of the pandemic.
The 2021 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will be held on the theme ‘Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk.
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The proliferation of disinformation and ease with which malign forces can manipulate information is greatly undermining democratic institutions. Political disinformation creates chaos, division, and distrust. It has resulted in parallel universes in which individuals operate with a different set of facts and live in different realities.
The University of Groningen is holding a webinar on 'Holding elections and voting in times of Covid-19'.
The seminar will start with a global overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on electoral processes presented by Erik Asplund, Programme Officer, International IDEA. His intervention will be followed by the analysis of different case studies by:
Women play major roles as decision-makers and leaders advancing peace and prosperity around the world. Yet progress on women’s political representation has been slow and uneven.
Only 22 countries have women in the highest position of political power and only 25 per cent of national parliamentarians are women. Barriers to women’s meaningful participation abound, including traditional gender roles, biases, and norms about who holds positions of power.
Join the high-level panel discussion on one of today’s most pressing global issues with some of the world’s leading experts on democracy.
Join us, for a high-level event on democratic renewal with opening keynotes by European Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen and US Assistant Secretary for Democracy Lisa Peterson.
The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 15 to 26 March 2021. The priority theme of the session is 'Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls'.
The Berghof Foundation and the UN Mediation Support Unit invite you to an online event about constitutional issues and peace processes.