Representatives from governments, academia, civil society and international organizations will gather at the annual Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2016 which will take place in Paris, France on December 7-9. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative, which currently brings together 69 member states, non-governmental organizations, and representatives from civil society in a…
The World Movement For Democracy (WMD) is pleased to be celebrating the release of an Azeri investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, and prominent Bahraini activist, Zainab Al-Khawaja. Ismayilova served as head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azerbaijan service and published extremely detailed accounts of rampant corruption by President Aliyev and his family, making her a target…