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International IDEA's Democracy Assessment Unit is hosting a discussion event on Thursday, 3 April 2025, aimed at exploring how strategic foresight can help shape democratic futures. 

The last two decades have seen a well-documented decline in democracy worldwide. This shift has corresponded with many governments increasing legal and policy restrictions on civil society.

Together with the Rule of Law Centre at the University of Helsinki and in collaboration with the General Prosecution Office, International IDEA is organizing a training for law enforcement agencies on Election Integrity: Strengthening Prosecutors’ Role in Fraud Investigations on March 20–21, 2025, in Tirana, Albania.

Women are often marginalised from decision-making in conflict and transitional contexts. Despite evidence that women’s presence and participation lead to better and longer lasting outcomes for peace, they remain underrepresented in transitional governments and peacebuilding bodies.

The UN has identified Gender-based violence (GBV) against women as one of the most severe human rights violations across the world. Despite the scale and scope of GBV incidents, survivors who seek help through formal or informal justice sector channels, continue to navigate numerous challenges in doing so. According to the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey 2018 (NDHS), 31 percent of girls and women aged 15-49 years have experienced physical or sexual violence at least once in th

Under the auspices of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), the European Parliament engages in comprehensive capacity building support for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VRU).

El Instituto para la Democracia y la Asistencia Electoral, IDEA Internacional, en conjunto con el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, PNUD, abordarán medidas y estrategias que permitan avanzar hacia una representación política equilibrada en Chile, considerando los desafíos actuales, así como las buenas prácticas que han contribuido en avanzar agenda de igualdad en América Latina y en Chile.

International IDEA’s commitment to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality is at the core of the Institute’s mandate to advance, promote and protect sustainable democracy worldwide by responding to the key challenges and opportunities for strengthening democracy in the current and emerging democracy landscape. Such challenges include that women and men are still treated differently and given different tasks, responsibilities, opportunities, and privileges in most societies.

This SDG16+ Informal Roundtable will facilitate an open dialogue among civil society, member states, UN staff, and other stakeholders to identify advocacy priorities and actionable strategies for advancing SDG16+ and SDG5 in tandem.

Thirty years after the Beijing Conference, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPFA) remain a blueprint for equality. Amid global challenges, women leaders face increasing attacks, impacting progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Structural, socioeconomic, and cultural barriers, rooted in unequal power relations and discriminatory norms, hinder women's participation. Today just 25 countries are headed by a woman.

International IDEA and UNDP invite all young people who are interested in becoming more politically engaged. This workshop is open to everyone, regardless of your current knowledge of youth political participation.

En el marco de los 30 años de IDEA Internacional, se llevará a cabo el lanzamiento público del proyecto: Mejorando la Resiliencia de la Democracia en América Central, en Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Temporary Special Measures (TSM) are policy tools designed to address disparities in representation and participation, particularly for underrepresented groups like women.

The lecture marks the fifth event in the Stockholm Series of Public Lectures on Climate Change and Democracy.

This initiative is a cooperation between renowned Stockholm-based institutions with a particular focus on climate change and democracy from different perspectives. It aims to inform, inspire, and engage experts and the general public alike by providing high-profile public lectures on the climate-democracy nexus, followed by debate.

The Sekolah Reformasi Malaysia (School of Reform Malaysia) is a joint initiative between International IDEA and the Institute for Political Reform and Democracy (REFORM) Malaysia that aims to enhance the knowledge of the members of Dewan Waghih Siswa (Negeri Sembilan Student Council) on democratic principles, institutions and processes to enable them to engage further in their role as members of the youth and student councils of Negeri Sembilan Governm

In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development led with a bold aspiration to eradicate poverty in all of its forms by 2030 (Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1). There were grounds for optimism at the time, as the number of people living in extreme poverty (736 million) was lower than it had been 15 years before (UNDP n.d.).

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's political guidelines and the Mission Letters for the Commission candidates already gave a sneak peek of what's in the pipeline for democracy, with the announcement of the creation of a European Democracy Shield.

The lecture marks the fourth event in the Stockholm Series of Public Lectures on Climate Change and Democracy.

This initiative is a cooperation between renowned Stockholm-based institutions with a particular focus on climate change and democracy from different perspectives. It aims to inform, inspire, and engage experts and the general public alike by providing high-profile public lectures on the interlinkages between climate change and democracy followed by debate.

The UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa, in partnership with International IDEA, will convene a policy dialogue in Addis Ababa to examine and explore ways to make elections more meaningful to African citizens beyond the ballot. 

Marcela Ríos Tobar, Directora Regional para América Latina y el Caribe, junto a un grupo de panelistas presenta el documento: Violencia política de género en la esfera digital en América Latina.