Se prevé que la crisis actual tendrá un impacto humanitario y socioeconómico de gran alcance y a largo plazo. Nos encontramos ante una oportunidad de repensar y reformular las normas y las políticas para una recuperación social y económica con un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos, que no deje a nadie atrás.
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International IDEA will co-organize two sessions during the seventh edition of Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF21), hosted by The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on 10-12 May 2021. The event will focus on the topic of Mobilising for Digital Resilience – a free, open, and secure internet in the shifting landscapes of the pandemic.
The 2021 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will be held on the theme ‘Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk.
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The proliferation of disinformation and ease with which malign forces can manipulate information is greatly undermining democratic institutions. Political disinformation creates chaos, division, and distrust. It has resulted in parallel universes in which individuals operate with a different set of facts and live in different realities.
The University of Groningen is holding a webinar on 'Holding elections and voting in times of Covid-19'.
The seminar will start with a global overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on electoral processes presented by Erik Asplund, Programme Officer, International IDEA. His intervention will be followed by the analysis of different case studies by:
Women play major roles as decision-makers and leaders advancing peace and prosperity around the world. Yet progress on women’s political representation has been slow and uneven.
Only 22 countries have women in the highest position of political power and only 25 per cent of national parliamentarians are women. Barriers to women’s meaningful participation abound, including traditional gender roles, biases, and norms about who holds positions of power.
Join the high-level panel discussion on one of today’s most pressing global issues with some of the world’s leading experts on democracy.
Join us, for a high-level event on democratic renewal with opening keynotes by European Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen and US Assistant Secretary for Democracy Lisa Peterson.
The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 15 to 26 March 2021. The priority theme of the session is 'Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls'.
The Berghof Foundation and the UN Mediation Support Unit invite you to an online event about constitutional issues and peace processes.
Democracy in the world is in turmoil, and in many places, democratic values are increasingly being challenged. What are the challenges and opportunities? Who participates in democratic processes and what can be done to strengthen democracy?
The 19th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC2020) will bring together thousands of representatives from civil society, governments, multilateral agencies and private sector, along with young activists, musicians, filmmakers and investigative journalists who are committed to the fight against corruption.
The World Justice Challenge 2021: Advancing the Rule of Law in a Time of Crisis seeks to identify, recognize, and promote good accountable governance practices and high-impact projects and policies that protect and advance the rule of law in this time of unprecedented crisis.
Mobile voting can broadly be defined as a form of voting where members of the election administration visit a voter either at home or at an institution in which they reside with a mobile ballot box to facilitate their vote. While mobile voting can help increase the accessibility of the vote for groups that would otherwise be unable to vote, maintaining secrecy of the vote and ensuring that votes are cast without coercion are of greater concern with this method.
The USAID's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) is organizing a virtual discussion on 'Promoting Voter Education and Outreach Amid COVID-19'. This online panel discussion will explore how developing countries are adapting voter education and outreach efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure inclusive and fair access to electoral information. |
Opportunities for early voting have increasingly been adopted by countries in Europe. Early voting allows a voter to cast her/his ballot in-person ahead of the main and the last voting day. Thus, unlike in other Special Voting Arrangements (SVAs), voting is still conducted in a controlled environment. While the method broadens the opportunity to vote, it adds complexity to the tasks of electoral management bodies (EMBs) who need to ensure that votes are cast and counted properly.
Posting voting is a well-established special voting arrangement (SVA) in many countries. It is generally facilitated by sending a voter a blank ballot paper through the national postal service.
The COVID-19 pandemic is an international public health crisis that continues to challenge our democracies in ways that are unprecedented.
The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) in Tbilisi, Georgia, will organize the Good Governance Forum 2020, tomorrow, 2 October 2020, under the theme: Political Integrity and Elections: Challenges and Innovative Solutions.
Athens Democracy Forum 2020, “The New Abnormal: Reimagining Democracy”, will be held from 30 September to 3 October 2020.
Panel discussion on 'Democracy in a time of crisis '