Seventy per cent of the people in Nigeria’s prisons are still awaiting trial, some for seven years or more. In Lagos, magistrates are reluctant to grant bail to defendants out of concern that they may abscond once released.

International IDEA, together with more than 140 partners in the global democracy community, has been convening the Global Democracy Coalition since 2021.

On the margins of the NATO Summit in July 2024, held in Washington DC, International IDEA convened an event titled ‘Strengthening Security through Democratic Resilience’.

International IDEA was a leading advocate for embedding democracy at the core of the UN’s Pact for the Future, emphasizing the need to address democratic backsliding as a global challenge.

International IDEA has been a long-standing partner of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL), which brings together communities of public intellectuals, judges, government officials, practitioners and members of civil society to enable peer exchanges and the sharing of knowledge on practical issues of democratic constitutional governance.

Twenty young adults from across Zambia gathered at the National Assembly in November 2024 for the Youth Parliamentary Academy, as part of the Inter Pares partnership with the National Assembly.

To respond to the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) presents for electoral management bodies (EMBs), International IDEA launched a project in 2024 on AI literacy for electoral actors.

Policymakers, advisors, influencers, civil society organizations and scholars used the Stockholm Series of Public Lectures on Climate Change and Democracy to engage in a cross-discipline dialogue on the nexus between climate change and democracy.

A workshop held in November 2024 produced a refined global methodology for identifying and analysing the factors that affect election-related foreign information manipulation and interference. The methodology empowers national stakeholders, particularly civil society organizations, to conduct country-level analyses and develop effective policy responses. 

As in previous years, International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy (GSoD) report was an important source of data and analysis for public officials throughout 2024. More than 350 media outlets from around the world, including ABC News, the Associated Press and El País, covered the launch of the 2024 report.