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At the end of 2022, the world finds itself trapped beneath the weight of a multitude of old and new problems. Long-held assumptions have been shaken. Post-truth narratives have impacted the legitimacy of credibly elected leaders, interstate war has resurfaced, and the number of people who believe that democracy is still the answer to these problems is shrinking.

In celebration of International Democracy Day 2022, the Global Democracy Coalition, currently coordinated by International IDEA, will hold an event to celebrate democracy defenders across diverse contexts, and to discuss the most effective ways to support them, to advance and protect democracy worldwide, showcasing stories and examples from partner organizations in the Global Democracy Coalition and their activist grantees/partne

"To Find Us: Dialogues and Alterities" is a cycle of plays produced by International IDEA, USAID and the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (LUM), with the aim of making visible the problems faced by historically excluded populations that need to be taken into account in the political agenda of the 2022 Regional and Municipal Elections.

After 40 years of uneven experience, democracy is facing acute challenges in Latin America. The region’s undeniable success in establishing credible electoral processes and in advancing human development levels, has not been replicated in other crucial aspects of the democratic project, such as the rule of law, the workings of representative institutions, and the emergence of peaceful and cohesive societies.

As the Chair of the Council of Member States of International IDEA, Canada and International IDEA will host an in-person panel discussion on “Youth civic and political participation: shaping our democracies and our fight on climate change” on 2 June 2022, from 09:30 to 11:00. The event will take place at International IDEA’s Headquarters at Strömsborg 1 in Stockholm.

The Secretary-General of International IDEA, Kevin Casas-Zamora, will address a message to all participants in the Summit for Electoral Democracy, during the launch ceremony on May 18, at 13:30 GMT, which will be transmitted on YouTube.

International IDEA is convening a global multistakeholder coalition for democracy in a virtual forum to be held for 24 hours on 7 December 2021. The purpose of the Global Democracy Coalition Forum is to facilitate a global conversation on democracy, as inputs to the Summit for Democracy, convened by the United States Government and to be held on 9 and 10 December 2021.

International IDEA’s “The Global State of Democracy: Building resilience in a pandemic era” report aims to influence the global debate and analyses current trends and challenges to democracy, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers specific policy recommendations to spark new and innovative thinking for policymakers, governments and civil society organizations supporting democracy. 

Stockholm International Democracy Talks will take place in a digital format on 28-29 October. It is arranged as part of Sweden’s Drive for Democracy, launched in 2019 in an effort to provide a counter-narrative to the democratic backsliding we see in many parts of the world.

In the run-up to the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, International IDEA is hosting a webinar to launch its discussion paper on Democracy and the Challenges of Climate Change to zoom in on what innovations, policies and actions are available to democracies to successfully tackle climate change.

In light of the challenges that the region faces in terms of democratic governance, equality, inclusion, and in view of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the ATENEA initiative: Mechanism to Accelerate Women's Political Participation in Latin America, an inter-agency initiative led by UNDP, UN Women and International IDEA, is organizing this regional seminar with the objective of carrying out an in-depth re

Join us from 23 September to 24 September 2021 online or in-person for the 2021 Global Forum, Latin America and the Caribbean organized by FUNGLODE and International IDEA.

A historic first, the Chilean Constitutional Convention embeds gender parity by design. The resulting body, comprised of 78 men and 77 women, will write Chile’s new constitution. 

International IDEA invites you to a new Debating Democracy webinar entitled: What’s happening to democracy in Latin America? on Wednesday 16 June 2021, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.

REGISTER HERE

Following mass protests in October 2019, Chile embarked on a reform process to address longstanding grievances, including inequality, the lack of economic opportunity, high student debt, and gender inequities.  Calls for institutional change centered on reforming the Chilean Constitution, seen as a relic of the Pinochet dictatorship despite multiple partial reforms under democratic governments.

Amidst surging rates of Covid-19 infections and sharp economic contractions, citizens in Peru and Ecuador went to the polls on 11 April 2021 in presidential and legislative elections. Please join the Wilson Center’s Latin American Program and International IDEA on Monday, 19 April 2021, from 15:00 – 16:30 EST to discuss the latest electoral results in Ecuador and Peru and what they may signal about democratic governance in the region more broadly.

Our 25th anniversary virtual conference will offer a tour of democracy around the world consisting of sequenced regional sessions. Hear from experts including Thomas Carothers, Ann Linde, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Tania Pariona.

Each session will be live streamed and no registration is required to watch.

25 HOURS
12 SESSIONS
63 SPEAKERS

Please join International IDEA and the Wilson Center's Latin American Program on Friday, October 16, 2020, 09:00 – 10:15, EST to discuss the upcoming plebiscite and its meaning for both Chile and Latin America.

Since 1996 the Annual CAF Conference has brought together more than 1,000 world leaders to converse about the most important developments facing the Americas.