In June 2017, the World Movement hosted an event on human rights in Crimea with Tetiana Pechonchyk, Head of the Board of the Human Rights Information Centre (HRIC); Olga Skrypnyk, Head of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG); and members the international affairs community in Washington, DC. The event provided a firsthand update on the human rights…
The World Movement, in partnership with the Georgian Foundation for Strategic International Studies (GFSIS), will facilitate a meeting in October 2017 to help civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Eurasia region defend themselves from charges that their work undermines social cohesion and moral order. It will reflect on cultural and historic contexts within the countries…
UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Prof. Annalisa Ciampi, to speak at side event on expanding civic space within the United Nations during the United Nations Generally Assembly in New York in October 2017. As national governments across the world impose greater restrictions on the rights…
EIGHTH ASSEMBLY – SESSION REPORTS The Eighth Assembly attendees participated in more than 50 sessions throughout the conference whose topics were built on the foundation of the World Movement for Democracy’s Steering Committee statement, “A Call for Democratic Renewal.” In the statement, the Steering Committee highlights four core dimensions under which the international democratic community…