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Join us for a discussion on constitutional innovations regarding institutions designed to advance freedom of expression and media freedom (media or communication commissions) and their role in addressing contemporary challenges of dis/misinformation and advancing fair, balanced, and diversified media coverage, particularly in publicly owned or state-subsidized media. 

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. 

El informe "El estado de la democracia en el mundo: Fomentando la resiliencia en una era pandémica" de International IDEA tiene como objetivo influir en el debate global y analizar las tendencias y desafíos actuales a la democracia, exacerbados por la pandemia Covid-19.

International IDEA will participate in the event "Democratic Backsliding: What it means for America and the world," hosted by Georgetown University on 18 November 2021.

The event will include the following speakers:

The Second Digital Democracy Dialogue (3D2) will be held on 16-17 November 2021 at the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic in Montreux. It will be avowedly multi-stakeholder, based on an understanding that to truly place digital technology at the service of democracy requires an inclusive and cooperative approach, with the involvement and collaboration of states, technology companies, civil society, election officials, academics and independent experts.

The Election Commission of India (ECI), the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), in association with IFES and International IDEA organized an online technical workshop on "Electoral Training: Content Development, Andragody and Training Methods". The workshop will be held on 16th-17th November 2021, from 5:30-08:00 PM [Indian Standard Time] (Indian Standard Time).

The World Forum for Democracy will bring together intellectuals, politicians, activists, experts and young people from all over the world from 8 to 10 November to answer the question “Can democracy save the environment” after a year-long, worldwide, online debate about democracy and the environment. The Forum, which will be entirely live-streamed, is organised

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to take a devastating toll on public health, economies, and livelihoods globally since December 2019, it also affects the maintenance and preservation of democracy. Africa as a continent has also been severely affected. The need to contain the spreading of the pandemic has led to the countries adopting various forms emergency measures depending on their context.

Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary-General of International IDEA, has been invited to the 23rd KPI Congress 2021: Democracy in a new landscape. The Congress will be held online and coordinated from Thailand, 5-7 November 2021, and it will have the participation of prestigious leaders and regional experts.

International IDEA and the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School will jointly organize The Melbourne Forum on Constitution-Building in Asia and the Pacific—an annual event that brings together practitioners and scholars from to explore constitution-building themes of global importance from a regional perspective.

The seventh webinar under the Democratic Development in Melanesia Webinar series 2021 will be launching the Report on Political Finance Assessment of Fiji.  

The 2021 #Tech4Rights Expo will be held virtually from 26 October to 29 October 2021. Join academics, civil society, human rights defenders, state and private sector representatives, artists and many more in exploring how technology influences human rights.

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.

La Cuarta Asamblea Plenaria se celebrará virtualmente los días 21 y 22 de octubre de 2021. Después de un año atípico y nuevos retos que han enfrentado las autoridades jurisdiccionales-electorales alrededor del mundo, regresa esta conferencia de alto nivel a cargo del Tribunal Superior Electoral de la República Dominicana, Presidencia de la RMJE, con el apoyo de la Secretaría Técnica del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación de México.

The Fourth Plenary Assembly will be held virtually on October 21 and 22, 2021! After an atypical year and new challenges faced by the jurisdictional-electoral authorities of the world, this high-level conference is back in charge of the Superior Electoral Court of the Dominican Republic, Presidency of the RMJE, with the support of the Technical Secretariat.

El rector de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Dr. José Antonio Chang Escobedo y los directores de Cátedra Perú, Dr. David Cunza Delgado y Dr. Hugo Guerra Arteaga, invitan a la sesión 100 de la Cátedra Perú, que desarrollará el tema: "Repensando la democracia en Las Américas, retos y perspectivas a los 20 años de la Carta Democrática".

El Instituto de Estudios Democráticos (INED) del Tribunal Electoral en conjunto con IDEA Internacional se complacen en invitarle a la Serie de mesas redondas “Perspectivas y análisis del Superciclo Electoral 2021-2024”.  El webinar titulado Análisis de los procesos electorales de Paraguay y Argentina se realizará el miércoles 20 de octubre del presente año a las 2:00 p.m. (hora de Panamá). 

A la luz de los desafíos que la región enfrenta en materia de gobernabilidad democrática, igualdad, inclusión, y de cara al logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de aquí al 2030, la iniciativa ATENEA: Mecanismo para acelerar la participación política de las mujeres en América Latina una iniciativa inter-agencial liderada por el PNUD, ONU Mujeres e IDEA Internacional organiza el seminario regional "D

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