Over the past year, Azerbaijan has experienced 57 politically motivated court trials, an increase over the previous annual reporting period, according to a report released on September 14, 2019, by the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS). Civil society organizations in Azerbaijan have long urgently called for reform of the judiciary, but this report…
The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) has released a set of recommendations for preventing violent extremism (PVE) in Lebanon, which “draws on the country’s history, as well as its social and political characteristics and trends.” The research project comes in response to a government announcement that it will draft a national strategy for PVE.…
Post submitted by Steering Committee member Lee Cheuk Yan. This year is the 20th anniversary of the World Movement. It is both time for celebration and reflection. I was in New Delhi twenty years ago representing the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the independent Union in Hong Kong. I was also then an elected Legislative…
REDLAD is a plural platform for the promotion of democracy and for the dissemination and defense of human rights and the inclusion of populations in conditions of vulnerability, dispossession, invisibilization. It has 300 members and allies. REDLAD’s current and previous Director has been part of WMD’s Steering Committee. REDLAD members have participated in WMD’s General…