El próximo viernes 30 de octubre será presentada la plataforma regional dirigida a mujeres en política coordinada por FLACSO Argentina y ATENEA. En dicho campus virtual se brindarán cursos especializados de distinta naturaleza que fortalezcan el conocimiento de mujeres que, desde su diversidad, aspiran a cargos de elección popular o ya se encuentran en la gestión de un cargo en América Latina como en el Caribe.
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Forms of special voting arrangements (SVAs) conventionally include early, postal, online, proxy voting and use of mobile ballot boxes. Some of these SVAs involve voting within supervised voting stations and some enable voting without/outside polling stations.
Posting voting is a well-established special voting arrangement (SVA) in many countries. It is generally facilitated by sending a voter a blank ballot paper through the national postal service.
The Seoul International Forum on Elections (SIFE) is an annual international conference organized by the National Election Commission (NEC) of the Republic of Korea. It has been held every year since 2015, growing into an important event bringing together officials from election management bodies and global experts in the fields of elections and democracy and international organizations to advance election systems and democracy around the world through active discussions.
En los últimos cuatro procesos electorales, las mujeres representaron alrededor del 50% de la población electoral en Perú. Sin embargo, esta cifra no se ha visto representada ni en candidaturas ni en autoridades.
The Swedish Parliament organizes an online seminar to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. This event will be held at the Swedish Parliament's headquarters and will be broadcast online through the institution's website TV.
International IDEA has been invited to this celebration. Secretary-General Kevin Casas-Zamora will share information on the state of democracy globally and what the international community can do to reverse the current negative trend.
El próximo miércoles 21 de octubre el Tribunal Electoral de la República de Panamá conmemorará 64 años de su establecimiento el 24 de octubre de 1956. Para celebrar esta importante fecha para la democracia en Panamá, se ha organizado la conferencia virtual “Evolución, retos y proyección del Tribunal Electoral”, que hará un repaso del desarrollo de la institución, su situación actual y la visión de cara al futuro.
The practice of recalling elected representatives during their term of office is both topical and controversial within the context of democratic governance across the globe. On the one hand, recall can be an instrument to ensure adequate representation of the elected, but on the other hand, it can be weaponised to undermine democratic representation.
The COVID-19 pandemic is an international public health crisis that continues to challenge our democracies in ways that are unprecedented.
The Government of Indonesia will convene the 13th Bali Democracy Forum (13th BDF) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, in December 2020. The BDF that was established in 2008 aimed to create a progressive democratic architecture in the Asia and the Pacific region. In the past decades, the Forum facilitated dialogues on sharing experiences and best practices among the participating countries from various regions in managing diversity that encourages equality, mutual understanding, and respect.
The Fifth Edition of the Participation Festival will be three days of workshops, conferences and debates under the theme: 'Participation in the Risk Society'.
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.
The need for physical distancing during this COVID-19 pandemic has raised the need for innovative campaign methods to be developed by election contestants because conventional campaign methods such as rallies, public meetings, etc. are prohibited in some jurisdictions. Distant and online election campaigning may be seen as restrictive to both contestants and voters alike due to physical and technological barriers that appear. To what degree is this true?
Este miércoles 14 y jueves 15 de octubre de 9:00 a 11:00 am, la Escuela de Gobierno de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú e IDEA Internacional organizan el Seminario "Impacto del COVID-19 en la política de los países andinos".
PROGRAMA DEL SEMINARIO
Miércoles 14 de octubre: "Las respuestas políticas a los retos de la pandemia"
Este jueves 8 de octubre, a las 16:00 h. (GMT-3), se realizará el cuarto y último conversatorio del ciclo “Juventudes en Democracia”, con el tema: “Diálogos sobre los nuevos desafíos para la democracia”. El evento es abierto a todo público, y será transmitido a través de las redes sociales de la Justicia Electoral de Paraguay.
Bolivia debe sobrellevar una prolongada crisis del sistema de partidos y el sistema de representación.
The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) in Tbilisi, Georgia, will organize the Good Governance Forum 2020, tomorrow, 2 October 2020, under the theme: Political Integrity and Elections: Challenges and Innovative Solutions.
Athens Democracy Forum 2020, “The New Abnormal: Reimagining Democracy”, will be held from 30 September to 3 October 2020.
Panel discussion on 'Democracy in a time of crisis '
The open-list proportional representation (OLPR) system, as opposed to the closed-list version, allows voters to pick their favourite candidate from the party list while retaining proportionality of the election results. In the Asia & the Pacific region, this system is used in among others; Fiji, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. What are the upsides, downsides and unintended consequences of this system? Follow the lecture and find out!
The Global Peace Index is the flagship annual report produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). This year’s report is the 14th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their relative levels of peacefulness. The GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness.