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May
26
2023
News Article
The Electoral Tribunal of Panama (TE), with the support of International IDEA, held its second workshop on spokespersons and crisis management, on May 5 and 6, 2023. This time, for the people...
Apr
17
2023
Commentary
This year has been as disturbing as it has been enlightening for democracies in Latin America. Political events in Peru and Brazil and troubling trends in Mexico and El Salvador offer a warning of...
Mar
29
2023
News Article
Democracy organizations co-leads of the youth democracy cohort (International IDEA, The European Partnership for Democracy, the European Youth Network and Africtivistes) call on civil society...
Mar
13
2023
News Article
International IDEA has just published new case studies on Mexico and Belgium as part of the ´
Mar
03
2023
News Article
It is with deep sorrow and heavy heart that we share the sad news of Dr Bassma Kodmani’s passing. A highly reputed political scientist and a professor of International Relations at Paris University,...
Jan
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
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
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...
Jan
08
2023
Press Release
The storming of Brazil’s Presidential Palace, Congress and Supreme Court by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday is an unacceptable, illegitimate and dangerous assault on...
Dec
23
2022
News Article
International IDEA, with the support from the European Commission, has been contributing to increasing effective evidence-based and coordinated support for democracy across the world through the...
Dec
05
2022
News Article
International IDEA, in collaboration with the European Commission (EC) and the Youth Political and Civic Engagement Cohort of the Summit for Democracy (S4D), held on 15 November 2022, an online peer-...
Dec
02
2022
News Article
On 30 November 2022, International IDEA launched two new knowledge products under the Global State of Democracy Initiative:
Nov
30
2022
Press Release
Half of democratic governments around the world are in decline while authoritarian regimes are deepening their repression. Esta nota de prensa está disponible en español.
Nov
17
2022
News Article
International IDEA shared with electoral authorities, civil society, and political actors the main elements of the current state of political financing in Paraguay, as revealed by a qualitative study...
Oct
31
2022
Press Release
International IDEA attended the second round of the Brazilian presidential election 2022 with a delegation led by former Presidents of Bolivia Carlos Mesa, and Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado, and...
Oct
28
2022
Press Release
International IDEA will assist in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, on Sunday 30 October 2022. The delegation is led by the former Presidents of Bolivia, Carlos Mesa, and...
Oct
18
2022
News Article
The Mozambique Office of International IDEA facilitated on 14 and 15 October 2022 in the district of Matutuíne, Province of Maputo a two-day training and reflection session for the Parliamentary...
Sep
12
2022
Feature Story
Paraguay has been making continuous efforts to consolidate its democratic institutions since the instauration of the regime in 1989. An ample political consensus allowed for the drafting and adoption...
Sep
12
2022
Feature Story
The women’s training programme, led by the national electoral management body in cooperation with International IDEA, earned an Honorable Mention in the Gender Equality category in the first edition...