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Join our online roundtable that aims to contribute to a better understanding of the current and likely future effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on democracies in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova. In addition, the discussion will aim to distill recommendations on how national and international democracy assistance providers should revise their actions in response to this crisis.
"COVID-19 is a crisis with a woman’s face… The damage is incalculable and will resound down the decades, into future generations. Now is the time to change course. Women’s equal participation is the game-changer we need.”
“La COVID-19 es una crisis con rostro de mujer… El daño es incalculable y resonará a lo largo de las próximas décadas, en las generaciones futuras. Ahora es el momento de cambiar de rumbo. La participación igualitaria de las mujeres es el cambio de juego que necesitamos”.
The second panel discussion under the 'Anticipating Elections in Fiji' series will be on the following topic: Electoral Campaigning in Fiji. Since, Fiji has reduced the district magnitude to one which is one whole nation constituency under the Open List Proportional Representation system, it has affected the way campaigning is done in Fiji. This in turn has affected the ballot design.
There are a number of metrics and indices developed to assess the vibrancy, stability, and health of democratic institutions and culture. But they often measure different things. International IDEA's Head of Democracy Assessment Unit, Dr Seema Shah, will participate in the University of Virginia's Democracy Dialogues, a series produced by the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy with the goal of strengthening democracy through civil debate.
Parliaments are where the diverse needs of citizens are represented, through the people they elect and the decisions they make. The choices made by parliaments in the coming years will determine which direction is taken on the road to global gender equality: forwards or backwards. The new INTER PARES guide to gender-sensitive scrutiny provides MPs and parliamentary staff with a practical framework to advance gender equality through their law-making and oversight work.
Högskolan Väst celebrates International Women's Day and as part of this, the Centrum för Hållbarhet (CFH) invites you to a lecture with Rumbidzai Kandawasvika-Nhundu, Senior Advisor in Democracy and Inclusion at International IDEA, on 8 March 2022, 12:05 -12:55 Stockholm time, via Zoom.
The lecture theme is EQUALITY IN DEMOCRACY
On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, the Women in Political Participation (WPP) project invites you to the webinar Situation Analysis on Women's Political Participation in Africa: #Breakthebias towards women in political decision making.
The International IDEA Tunis Office is will hold its second online 'Moot Court Competition on Article 49 of the Tunisian Constitution and Proportionality', under the project “Supporting the Application of Article 49 and Proportionality in Tunisia” funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
To celebrate the International Women’s day, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland invites you to join the discussion “No Democracy without Gender Equality?”. Register here.
La Fundación Global Democracia y el Desarrollo (Funglode) y el Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y la Asistencia Electoral (IDEA Internacional) le invitan a participar en la VI edición del Foro Internacional de Santo Domingo, 2 y 3 de marzo del 2022.
The first Panel Discussion is on “The Impacts of Electoral System in Fiji”.
International IDEA is hosting a virtual Roundtable, titled “The Absent Voters of South Asia: Challenges and Prospects for the Enfranchisement of Migrants”, with the participation of select experts from the sub-region.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) invites you to join the Twitter chat session #Summit4DemocracyDialogues: Analyzing official statements and expectations on commitments on Tuesday, 8 February 2022, at 15:00-15:30 (CET/Brussels).
La Fundación Ortega-Marón y el Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega-Marañón, le invita a participar en la conferencia "El estado de la democracia en América Latina" a cargo de Kevin Casas-Zamora, secretario general del Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y Asistencia Electoral, IDEA Internacional.
Lo invitamos a la Conversación ‘Democracia y reconstrucción del contrato social en Iberoamérica‘, dentro del ciclo ‘Diálogos con América Latina’, organizado por Fundación Carolina y Casa de América, con la participación del secretario general de IDEA Internacional, Kevin Casas-Zamora; Esther del Campo, catedrática de Ciencia Política de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y moderado por Enrique Ojeda, director general de Casa de América.
El programa de IDEA Internacional en Chile invita a la presentación del Informe Global sobre el Estado de la Democracia: Construir la resiliencia democrática en una Era Pandémica, el 17 de septiembre de 2021 a las 9:00h de Chile.
La Oficina regional de IDEA Internacional en Panamá y el Tribunal Electoral de Panamá invitan a la presentación del Informe sobre el estado de la democracia en las Américas 2021: Democracia en tiempos de crisis, el 15 de diciembre de 2021, de 10:00 a 11:30h de Panamá.
How do we make cities better? From gleaming towers to sprawling slums, from excessive wealth to unimaginable poverty, from green oases to lawless danger zones, cities bring together multiple, interconnected challenges.