Join us for Project Article 49's final conference, held on 30 and 31 May 2021, to discuss the topic: Working Towards a New Era in the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Tunisia.
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The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators Network (PIANZEA), with International IDEA, are cooperating in a 4-day workshop based on the ‘Strategic Planning for Effective Electoral Management’ Module of the ‘Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections’ (BRIDGE) Training curriculum.
Le invitamos a participar en el webinar ¿Cómo resolver los conflictos y acercar posiciones al interior de la convención constitucional? que se emitirá por el canal de Youtube del Observatorio Nueva Constitución el viernes 28 de mayo a las 10:30 a.m. de Chile.
Este jueves 27 de mayo, a las 17:00 h. (UTC -4), se llevará a cabo el primer evento del ciclo virtual “Mesas Redondas con Juventudes”, organizado por la Unidad de Participación Ciudadana del TSJE, a través de su proyecto “Impulso Democrático”. El evento, abierto para todo público, será transmitido por las redes sociales de la Justicia Electoral de Paraguay.
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.
Online violence against women
Discussion on the report : How are female politicians of Fiji treated on Facebook.
Women are under-represented in Fijian politics. Reasons for low number of women in politics relate to political and cultural factors. Once elected, women continue to encounter challenges and obstacles to work effectively. Increasingly, political violence against women is featuring on social medial platforms too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
INTER PARES | Parliaments in Partnership – EU Global Project to Strengthen the Capacity of Parliaments invites you to the first of its kind Global Virtual Conference ‘Catalysing Parliamentary Action to Fight Climate Change’, taking place on 11-12 May 2021.
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.
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:
In light of the current political, economic, and socio-cultural crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UP CIDS Programs in 2020 revised its activities to examine the negative impact of the pandemic and to propose possible solutions to this.
U.S. President Joe Biden pledged in his election campaign to rebuild global alliances, exemplified in a Summit for Democracy, which he said would “renew the spirit and shared purpose of the nations of the free world”.