International IDEA’s Board of Advisers had its first meeting of the year on 22 February 2021, welcoming seven new Board members. During the meeting, Ms Njeri Kabeberi was elected as the new Chair of the Board and Ms Laura Chinchilla as the Vice Chair for 2021.
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En el inicio de la pandemia, muchos países pospusieron las elecciones. Sin embargo, a partir de junio de 2020, hubo un cambio de tendencia y estas comenzaron a celebrarse nuevamente. Gracias al intercambio de información y la colaboración entre pares, las autoridades electorales adquirieron conocimientos sobre los riesgos y las medidas de prevención y de mitigación.
El miércoles 26 de febrero de 2020, Brasil reportó el primer caso de una persona contagiada con el virus SARS-CoV-2. El 7 de marzo, falleció en Argentina la primera persona a causa de covid-19. Apenas cuatro días después, el 11 de marzo, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) declaró que el coronavirus era una pandemia global.
The Coherence Programme, a co-creation of Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration (MoFAGA), Department for International Development (DFID, now Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office or FCDO), and International IDEA has recently launched its mentoring support to three more local governments in Lumbini Province of Nepal in partnership with Nitishala Nepal
At the start of the pandemic, many countries postponed elections. From June 2020, the trend shifted to holding elections. Thanks to information sharing and peer-to-peer exchanges, election authorities gained an understanding of the risks and prevention/mitigation measures.
This GSoD In Focus aims at providing a brief overview of the state of democracy in Europe at the end of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, and then assesses some of the preliminary impacts that the pandemic has had on democracy in the region in the last 10 months.
Key facts and findings include:
Special voting arrangements (SVAs) are designed to expand voting opportunities to individuals who are otherwise not able to vote. Safeguards that protect the equality, secrecy and transparency of the vote are vital for successful implementation of SVAs. Over the past few decades, countries across Europe have been increasingly adopting SVAs—particularly postal, early and mobile forms of voting. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated their use throughout the year 2020.
While Latin Americans struggle to leave behind the bleak year of 2020 they’re dealing with a pandemic that has left more than 550,000 dead; their economies are trying to recover from the worst recession in a century; and they are going through a new super-cycle of elections that began with Bolivia’s October 2020 general elections and that will not culminate until late 2024.
Five former presidents of Latin America were of the view that Latin America has to achieve integration to be able to seek solutions to the economic and social challenges facing the region, as well as the health challenges posed by the spread of COVID-19. Former presidents Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic, Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica, Fernando H.
Cinco expresidentes latinoamericanos consideraron que América Latina tiene que lograr una integración que le permita buscar soluciones a los retos económicos y sociales, así a como los desafíos sanitarios que ha provocado la pandemia generada por la expansión de la COVID-19. Los exmandatarios Leonel Fernández, de la República Dominicana; Laura Chinchilla, de Costa Rica; Fernando H.
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a profound strain on electoral democracy worldwide. Many elections have been postponed, while others have been held with adaptation.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this commentary are those of the authors. This commentary is independent of specific national or political interests. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the institutional position of International IDEA, its Board of Advisers or its Council of Member States.
International IDEA condemns the coup by Myanmar’s military and expresses our deep concern for the detentions of President Win Myint, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Union Election Commission Chairman U Hla Thein, members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and civil society leaders, calling for their immediate release. We urge the military to fully respect, in words and in practice, the results of the recent parliamentary elections.
This GSoD In Focus aims at providing a brief overview of the state of democracy in Africa and the Middle East at the end of 2019, prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, and then assesses some of the preliminary impacts that the pandemic has had on democracy in the region in the last 10 months.
Key facts and findings include:
Africa
ADDIS ABABA - The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes, restrictions on civil liberties like freedom of expression, and increasing persecution of opposition leaders and parties. The pandemic has hit the region at a time in which the significant advances of democracy in the last decades were coming to a halt.
Con la Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) como sede virtual, la institución invita junto a IDEA Internacional al “V Foro Internacional de Santo Domingo: Panorama socioeconómico y político de América Latina 2021”, que se celebrará el martes 26 y miércoles 27 de enero de 2021.