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Across all the regions of the world, women remain underrepresented in politics. There are several barriers that women encounter when aspiring for elective positions of power and decision-making. Though there has been a notable increase in women’s representation in decision-making, especially at the parliamentary level, there has simultaneously been an increase in violence against women in politics.

On 30 November 2022, International IDEA launched two new knowledge products under the Global State of Democracy Initiative:

International IDEA’s Council of Member States, chaired by Canada, unanimously approved the United States of America to become an Observer to International IDEA on 1 December 2022.

Half of democratic governments around the world are in decline while authoritarian regimes are deepening their repression.

Esta nota de prensa está disponible en español.

La mitad de los gobiernos democráticos del mundo están en declive mientras que los regímenes autoritarios profundizan su represión.

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This year's SDG16 Data Initiative Report , jointly produced by the SDG16 Data Initiative consortium, aims to evaluate global progress towards realizing Sustainable Development Goal 16—Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.

International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy 2022 Report has been published. Report editor and International IDEA's Head of Democracy Assessment, Seema Shah, provides an overview of the findings. Democracy is in decline around the world, undermined by problems ranging from restrictions on freedom of expression to distrust in the legitimacy of elections.

سلطت تقارير وسائل الإعلام الأخيرة [1] [2] الضوء على المستوى المقلق للمضايقات عبر الإنترنت ضد العاملين في مجال الاقتراع حول انتخابات التجديد النصفي في الولايات المتحدة لعام ٢٠٢٢. ويؤكد العمل الجاري الذي تقوم به المؤسسة الدولية للديمقراطية والانتخابات أن هذه الظاهرة لا تقتصر على الولايات المتحدة.

Informes recientes de los medios de comunicación [1 ]

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Recent media reports[1] [2] highlighted the worrying level of online harassment against poll workers around the 2022 United States mid-term elections. Ongoing work by International IDEA confirms that this phenomenon is not limited to the US.

In our first episode of the new season of Peer-to-Peer, we speak with Sarah Birch and Jeff Fischer to learn more about the effect of wildfires on elections in California. The conversation is based on an International IDEA case study that focuses on the impact of wildfires on the 2016 and 2018 electoral cycles but also on the steps taken by election administrators to protecting elections.

Excellencies,

This season, International IDEA will explore the effects of climate change in the form of extreme weather events, as well as other natural hazards, that cause both slow and rapid onset disasters, on the implementation of elections. Natural hazards can cause elections to be postponed, impact electoral operations, affect campaigns, and voter turnout.

The election of Doreen Bogdan-Martin as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union on 29 September was not just about selecting a top international bureaucrat. This election was effectively a referendum on how to rule the Republic of the Internet, an entity in which democracy has been backsliding for years. 

Russia’s war of choice has wrought enormous infrastructural and human damage across Ukraine. The international community broadly accepts the necessity of providing significant financial and technical assistance for reconstruction in Ukraine, but equally vital is the provision of concomitant support for Ukraine’s work to preserve and reconstruct its democracy and democratic institutions on its own terms.

International IDEA’s Annual Review of Constitution-Building series provides a retrospective account of constitutional transitions around the world, the issues that drive them, and their implications for national and international politics.

El reciente aplazamiento de los comicios locales en Karachi (Pakistán), debido a un fenómeno meteorológico extremo (Khan, 2022) es un ejemplo del impacto que pueden tener los peligros naturales en los procesos electorales. Hasta la fecha, las inundaciones han dejado a un tercio del país cubiertas de agua, han destruido infraestructuras esenciales y han cobrado más de 1.000 víctimas mortales.

Parliaments have an important and potentially transformative role to play in creating societies in which the human rights of everyone in the country are respected.