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02
2023
02
2023
News Article
International IDEA is saddened by the passing of Frene Ginwala on 12 January 2023, at the age of 90.
The Institute wishes to convey its deepest condolences and sympathies to the Ginwala family and...
Feb
28
2023
28
2023
News Article
International IDEA held an online panel discussion on the latest Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices findings on the six countries in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo...
Feb
27
2023
27
2023
News Article
Since 2014, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance has been working with Tunisian institutions and civil society to promote the implementation of proportionality in the...
Feb
24
2023
24
2023
News Article
International IDEA’s Youth Democracy Academy is contributing to deeper youth engagement in Fiji’s democratic processes through investing in the country’s young people and their knowledge of...
Feb
22
2023
22
2023
Commentary
A recent major media investigation exposed a team of private contractors in Israel who allegedly interfered several elections in other countries by mobilizing disinformation campaigns. The incident...
Feb
21
2023
21
2023
Commentary
As Turkey grapples with the aftermath of two devastating earthquakes, questions have arisen about whether the 2023 general and presidential elections will be postponed or held under a state of...
Feb
20
2023
20
2023
Press Release
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that establishes terms...
Feb
14
2023
14
2023
News Article
A few weeks away from the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in a stark warning that the clock is the “closest it has ever stood to humanity’s darkest hour”, United Nations...
Feb
06
2023
06
2023
News Article
Launch of the Recommendations Report on EU’s External Democracy Action in a New Geopolitical Reality
On 31 January 2023, International IDEA and the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU jointly organized in Brussels a conference to launch the Recommendations Report on the EU’s External...
Feb
03
2023
03
2023
Commentary
Some observations from updating the Voter Turnout Database in 2022.
At International IDEA, we track election-related data points for use in our knowledge products and publish them on our website for...
Jan
31
2023
31
2023
Press Release
View this joint statement in English and Myanmar.
Jan
31
2023
31
2023
Feature Story
International IDEA believes that diversity can strengthen democracy and peaceful cohesion if values of inclusion and the right for equal participation for all citizens are protected. Without...
Jan
31
2023
31
2023
Press Release
As global democracy faces headwinds, EU should lead in new geopolitical reality
Jan
31
2023
31
2023
Feature Story
In a bid to deepen relationships across the Asia-Pacific region, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s (International IDEA) Secretary-General Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora met...
Jan
27
2023
27
2023
News Article
Despite three decades of international support and an intensified, structured EU accession process in the last 20 years, democracy is not faring significantly better in the region. Montenegro, Serbia...
Jan
27
2023
27
2023
News Article
Over the last five years, the continent has witnessed a decline in the number of democratic systems, with 45 per cent of the population now living in hybrid regimes. The quality of democracy is also...
Jan
27
2023
27
2023
News Article
The EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) covers six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The Covid-19 pandemic put a strain on fledgling democracies in the EaP...
Jan
27
2023
27
2023
News Article
The state of democracy in the Latin America and the Caribbean region is clouded by the global geopolitical context affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, a hard-hitting recession and the commercial...
Jan
23
2023
23
2023
Commentary
As the political crisis in Peru worsens, Alicia del Aguila explores its roots. Key to understanding it are the political polarisation of recent years, tensions between the Central and Southern Andes...
Jan
17
2023
17
2023
Commentary
2023 will be complex and challenging for Latin America. The region will face an unfavourable international context in which it is expected, according to the IMF, that there will be a simultaneous...