The coronavirus pandemic continues to have a profound impact on both governance priorities and democratic processes. Parliaments around the world are looking at if and how innovations they have adopted to continue functioning during the pandemic will be integrated into the ‘new normal’ of parliamentary work. Can innovations such as virtual parliaments strengthen engagement with citizens? Can governments be effectively held to account through online questioning?
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The global pandemic has highlighted the resilience of our democratic institutions, the universal desire for fundamental freedoms, and the necessity of multilateralism.
Yet the crisis has also shed light on the ease with which restrictions can be imposed on democratic checks and balances, civic participation, and human rights, and it has exposed challenges for cooperation in times of need.
“The COVID-19 pandemic threatens more than the lives and the livelihoods of people throughout the world. It is also a political crisis that threatens the future of liberal democracy. It represents a formidable global challenge to democracy. Authoritarians around the world see the crisis as a new political battleground in their fight to stigmatize democracy as feeble and reverse its dramatic gains of the past few decades.
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.
International IDEA, in cooperation with the European Commission and the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations will co-organize a series of online roundtables titled Online Political Advertising and Microtargeting: the latest legal, ethical, political and technological evolutions and Virtual Meeting of the European Cooperation Network on Elections.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Permanent Electoral Authority of Romania will convene an online roundtable titled COVID -19 and Special Voting Arrangements (SVA): What can EMBs do to prepare for elections? The objective of this online event is to share knowledge and insight in using a variety of SVAs as countries prepare to hold elections in situations where epidemiological concerns necessitate the adoption of special arra
The Embassy of Sweden in Seoul and International IDEA are co-hosting a webinar on how to protect democracy during the outbreak of COVID-19, sharing examples and experiences from Australia, the Republic of Korea and Sweden.
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
Join a Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD)-hosted panel discussion with experts and politicians to assess the state of democracy worldwide, and in Denmark, today. Is the concept of democracy suffering from a fever these years? And what should democracy-support look like in the future?
Let's discuss the way forward.
International IDEA Secretary-General will be a key speaker.
In November 2019, International IDEA launched the second edition of its flagship report titled Th
Armenia’s parliament is currently developing a package of proposals to reform several aspects of its electoral process. One area of focus is the current system of out-of-country voting (OCV), which provides the opportunity for diplomatic and military personnel posted outside the country to cast their ballots online in national elections and referenda.
Kevin Casas-Zamora , Secretary-General of Internatinal IDEA, will be in Gothenburg on 12 February from 15:15-16:45 to present the Global State of Democracy findings.
No registration is needed and everyone is welcome!
Tweet us at @KevinCasasZ and @Int_IDEA