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.
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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".
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a virtual special meeting on Thursday, 14 May 2020, 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) to discuss “Supporting Democracy Resiliency in the Americas: Challenges and Best Practices."
The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which began in the city of Wuhan (China) on December 10, 2019, has quickly spread to the entire world, leaving more than 3 million people infected and more than 200,000 dead. By the end of April, Latin America had registered more than 170,000 infected people and 8,000 dead.
Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA, will participate in the Discussion titled "Organizing elections during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Latin America", organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico, at 16:00 (CEST) on 11 May 2020.
The Latin American Centre at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies will host a panel discussion on the impact of Coronavirus on the Politics of Latin America with the following participants:
Speakers: Kevin Casas-Zamora, International IDEA, Sweden
Daniela Campello, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil
Julieta Suárez Cao, Universidad Católica, Chile
Chair: Ezequiel González Ocantos, Nuffield College, Oxford
El lanzamiento regional para América Latina del informe de El estado de la democracia en el mundo y en las Américas 2019: Confrontar los Desafíos, Revivir la Promesa del Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y la Asistencia Electoral (IDEA Internacional) se llevará a cabo en la Ciudad de México, el día 10 de diciembre en