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ALEPPO
COLUMN World War 3 Has Come to Your Hometown
Attacks by authoritarian national governments on their own cities aren't just local conflicts. They constitute a global war.
WHITEHORSE
FIDE-NORTH AMERICA Citizens Assembly Insights from Yukon
The Importance of a Chair and an Insight Committee
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Global
Make Your Council Bigger
Better cities have bigger city parliaments.
Photo courtesy of Democracy International team, ECI Day 2024
European Union
The European Citizens' Initiative has an Opportunity to Take a Step...
The cornerstone of a well-functioning democracy lies in the extensive and robust participation of its...
Photo courtesy of Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality Publishes Final Report press release, December 2022. Creative Commons License 2.0. Via Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/oireachtas/
Global
The Meaning of Irish Defeat
A Roundup from Barcelona to Nelson Mandela Bay
CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015
Switzerland
Make Voting Rights Universal
Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.
Photo Credit Photographer: Florent MECHAIN/TravelMag.com travelmag.com, via Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0.
Bangladesh
Waiting in Pain
In Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, Indigenous people tell Asia Democracy Chronicles that they are at...
Lead photo by Anders Henrikson, 2014 (Creative Commons license)
Global
Please Don't Save Democracy
It's not a penalty shot. Or a dollar in the bank.
Registration for the Democracy Camp 2024
Illustration Courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles
The Hong Kong Diaspora's Power
How Hong Kongers continue to fight for democracy from abroad.
Seoul of Seoul photo by Bruno Kaufmann
Global
March to Democracy Events
A busy March for democracy.
Photo courtesy of chekyfoto from Getty Images from Canva Pro https://www.canva.com/
Hungary
Direct democracy in Hungary is colonised: interview with Zoltán Tibor...
In Country in Focus, Democracy International takes a closer look at advances in modern direct democracy and...