The Secretary-General of International IDEA, Kevin Casas-Zamora, will address a message to all participants in the Summit for Electoral Democracy, during the launch ceremony on May 18, at 13:30 GMT, which will be transmitted on YouTube.
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International IDEA is convening a global multistakeholder coalition for democracy in a virtual forum to be held for 24 hours on 7 December 2021. The purpose of the Global Democracy Coalition Forum is to facilitate a global conversation on democracy, as inputs to the Summit for Democracy, convened by the United States Government and to be held on 9 and 10 December 2021.
Join us on 26 November for a seminar on Election Assistance!
International IDEA’s “The Global State of Democracy: Building resilience in a pandemic era” report aims to influence the global debate and analyses current trends and challenges to democracy, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers specific policy recommendations to spark new and innovative thinking for policymakers, governments and civil society organizations supporting democracy.
Stockholm International Democracy Talks will take place in a digital format on 28-29 October. It is arranged as part of Sweden’s Drive for Democracy, launched in 2019 in an effort to provide a counter-narrative to the democratic backsliding we see in many parts of the world.
In the run-up to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, International IDEA is hosting a webinar to launch its discussion paper on Democracy and the Challenges of Climate Change to zoom in on what innovations, policies and actions are available to democracies to successfully tackle climate change.
In light of the challenges that the region faces in terms of democratic governance, equality, inclusion, and in view of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the ATENEA initiative: Mechanism to Accelerate Women's Political Participation in Latin America, an inter-agency initiative led by UNDP, UN Women and International IDEA, is organizing this regional seminar with the objective of carrying out an in-depth re
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.
A historic first, the Chilean Constitutional Convention embeds gender parity by design. The resulting body, comprised of 78 men and 77 women, will write Chile’s new constitution.
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.
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Following mass protests in October 2019, Chile embarked on a reform process to address longstanding grievances, including inequality, the lack of economic opportunity, high student debt, and gender inequities. Calls for institutional change centered on reforming the Chilean Constitution, seen as a relic of the Pinochet dictatorship despite multiple partial reforms under democratic governments.
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.
Our 25th anniversary virtual conference will offer a tour of democracy around the world consisting of sequenced regional sessions. Hear from experts including Thomas Carothers, Ann Linde, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Tania Pariona.
Each session will be live streamed and no registration is required to watch.
25 HOURS
12 SESSIONS
63 SPEAKERS
Please join International IDEA and the Wilson Center's Latin American Program on Friday, October 16, 2020, 09:00 – 10:15, EST to discuss the upcoming plebiscite and its meaning for both Chile and Latin America.
Since 1996 the Annual CAF Conference has brought together more than 1,000 world leaders to converse about the most important developments facing the Americas.
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El ciclo de conversatorios virtuales JUVENTUDES EN DEMOCRACIA es una iniciativa del Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral (TSJE) de Paraguay, como parte de los eventos de conmemoración de su 25o aniversario, en colaboración con IDEA Internacional y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), con apoyo de la Unión Europea (UE).
Peruvian Congress begins debate on political financing reform with the participation of the Secretary-General of IDEA International.
The Organization of American States (OAS) Secretariat for Legal Affairs invites the third session of the weekly Forum on Inter-American Law in times of pandemic: "Legal-Institutional Strengthening to combat corruption".
Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA, will give a talk for Electoral Transparency on Monday, 18 May 2020, during the conference for Electoral Transparency entitled "Challenges of democracy in the context of COVID-19".