On August 30, 2016, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a prodemocracy coalition of 31 non-governmental organizations, facilitated a public seminar in Harare, Zimbabwe. Members of the network presented their observations of Zambia’s recent elections which described a government clamp down on independent media coverage and polling stations that experienced late openings, missing materials, and delayed…
On August 7, 2016, the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) monitored Thailand’s local polling stations for the 2016 Thailand constitutional referendum, despite being refused accreditation by the country’s government. The referendum passed with 61% voting in favor of the new constitutional provisions. ANFREL issued a statement after the vote voicing their concerns about the…
The Association for Women in International Development’s (AWID) 13th International Forum, “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” will be held on September 8-11, 2016 in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia, Brazil. More than 2,000 participants from a broad diversity of movements and sectors are slated to come together to strategize on issues pertaining…
Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani, the President of the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization in Malaysia (MERHROM), has released a press statement decrying the new government’s failure to cease the mistreatment of Burma’s ethnic Rohingya population. He accused the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party of failing to curb human rights abuses against the…