For FAQs, check out MoroccoOnTheMove.com WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On November 25, Moroccans will go to the polls to cast their vote in historic parliamentary elections following the adoption of broad Constitutional reforms in July. This will be the first Parliamentary election in the region since the Arab Spring began. Nearly 4,000 Moroccan, US, and international observers, including the National Democratic Institute and Morocco's National Human Rights Council, are currently working with Moroccan civil society leaders to train and assist in carrying out the elections as well as ensure against irregularities on election day. To date, more than 13.6 million Moroccans have registered to vote.
Democracy-promoting organizations such as the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the Eurasia Foundation, and Freedom House are listening carefuHy- "Kremlin style," as one expert puts it- to the statements of Obama and his Cabinet members for signs that the administration considers democracy a priority. There is no empirical data that shows that authoritarian regimes respond to U.S. pro-democracy programs by scaling back repressive policies or that humanitarian missions are less effec- tive at helping a country make progress toward democracy.
Margaret Christie Keohan, a vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., has been appointed a member of the Maine Community Foundation's Investment Committee. For the last nine years, Keohan has been advising families, foundations and institutions on their investment management. Her responsibilities include assisting with trust and estate and philanthropic planning; advising on asset allocation; selecting managers and investment vehicles; and monitoring investment portfolios. Within Goldman Sachs, Keohan serves on her division's Philanthropy Committee. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Keohan worked in the nonprofit and government sectors overseas. She held positions with the International Financial Corp., U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Democratic Institute for Intern...
[Jean Bertrand Aristide] "left the country with our assistance, which he requested," Mari ToIliver, spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, told In These Times in August. (Karl Duckworth, spokesperson for the State Department, said that he could not comment on the U.S. role in Aristide's departure, as the Obama State Department is doing a "complete evaluation of all the areas to see where we will be on issues.") Nicole Lee, executive director of Washington, D.C.-based TransAfrica Forum, an advocacy group, is an attorney who, before the coup, lived in Haiti. Lee (no relation to the congresswoman) says one of the key functions of the commission would be to document the role of the International Republican Institute (IRI) in destabilizing the Haitian government. The nonprofit IRI is af...
... partially funds "to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmen...
..., through the Free Trade Union Institute and the Center for International Private Enterprisse. (2) Democratic governance and political processes. NED seeks to p...
With Iraq's first democratic election upon us, this Central Illinois native (and former Pantagraph carrier) is busy helping with preparations. I work for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a U.S.-based nongovernmental organization that provides nonpartisan democracy assistance around the globe.
ACYPL's staffmembers Kristin Rhebergen and Mike Garretson took students on a whirlwind tour of Old Town Alexandria, and Mount Vernon, VA; Annapolis, MD, including the U.S. Naval Academy; and Washington, DC, including the Egyptian Embassy, the Arab American Institute (AAI), the U.S. Department of State, Congressional Quarterly, C-SPAN, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Middle East Institute (MEI), the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), and Georgetown University.
Maryland Municipal League (MML) Executive Director Scott Hancock joined facilitators from Canada and Kosovo in a democracy workshop organized by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, December 9-13, 2006, in Kuwait.
Under the auspices of the United Nations and the Washington- based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, representatives from 14 Muslim countries gathered in Istanbul on April 12-14 to discuss implementing democratic reforms in the Middle East. While it came as no shock that Syria and Iran boycotted the event, Saudi Arabia - cited often by the Bush administration as one of America's closest allies in the region and serious about reform - was conspicuous by its absence.
THE NATIONAL Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, DC hosted a Sept. 27 panel discussion to examine the political debate currently taking place in Libya and the prospect of further political reform in the country. A four-member NDI delegation visited Libya from April 17 to 25, including the three panelists: NDI's Robert Peri and Gérard Latulippe, and Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. They conducted an assessment of the country's political system and gathered impressions of the state of Libyan civil society, as well as its media, judiciary system and economy.
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