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The Covid-19 crisis is expected to have a far-reaching and long-term humanitarian and socio-economic impact. Nevertheless, we are also faced with the opportunity to rethink and redefine norms and policies for a social and economic recovery with a human rights-based approach to build a greener, healthier and more equitable world where no one is left behind.

Se prevé que la crisis actual tendrá un impacto humanitario y socioeconómico de gran alcance y a largo plazo. Nos encontramos ante una oportunidad de repensar y reformular las normas y las políticas para una recuperación social y económica con un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos, que no deje a nadie atrás.

More than 40 years after the entry into force of CEDAW and 26 years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, progress around women’s full and equal political participation has stalled and gender balance remains a long way off. Women only make up 25% of all national parliamentarians, 36% of local government members, and 21% of ministers. Only 23 countries are headed by a woman Head of State or Government, and States have yet to have a woman leader.

Más de 40 años después de la entrada en vigor de la CEDAW y 26 años después de la Cuarta Conferencia Mundial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Mujer en Beijing, los progresos en torno a la participación plena e igualitaria de las mujeres en política se han estancado y la igualdad de género sigue estando muy lejos. Las mujeres sólo representan el 25% de todos los parlamentarios nacionales, el 36% de los miembros del gobierno local y el 21% de los ministerios.

International IDEA will co-organize two sessions during the seventh edition of Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF21), hosted by The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on 10-12 May 2021.

The proliferation of disinformation and ease with which malign forces can manipulate information is greatly undermining democratic institutions. Political disinformation creates chaos, division, and distrust. It has resulted in parallel universes in which individuals operate with a different set of facts and live in different realities. 

The 2021 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will be held on the theme ‘Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk.

Register here.

The University of Groningen is holding a webinar on 'Holding elections and voting in times of Covid-19'. 

The seminar will start with a global overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on electoral processes presented by Erik Asplund, Programme Officer, International IDEA. His intervention will be followed by the analysis of different case studies by:

In light of the current political, economic, and socio-cultural crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UP CIDS Programs in 2020 revised its activities to examine the negative impact of the pandemic and to propose possible solutions to this.

U.S. President Joe Biden pledged in his election campaign to rebuild global alliances, exemplified in a Summit for Democracy, which he said would “renew the spirit and shared purpose of the nations of the free world”. 

Women play major roles as decision-makers and leaders advancing peace and prosperity around the world. Yet progress on women’s political representation has been slow and uneven.

Only 22 countries have women in the highest position of political power and only 25 per cent of national parliamentarians are women. Barriers to women’s meaningful participation abound, including traditional gender roles, biases, and norms about who holds positions of power.

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.

El Órgano Electoral Plurinacional (OEP) de Bolivia presentará el libro Elecciones en América Latina de Salvador Romero Ballivián.

La Fundación Colombia 2050 dentro de su espacio FOROS 2050, invitan a una serie de encuentros con personalidades de la academia, la política y la sociedad civil, para discutir sobre diferentes temáticas de relevancia nacional.

El próximo foro tratará sobre el impacto que la desinformación y las fake news generan en los procesos democráticos y sus preocupantes consecuencias en la credibilidad y confianza que la ciudadanía asigna a las instituciones.

Con una ponencia titulada “Sin mujeres, no hay democracia: Participación política y elecciones en tiempos de pandemia”, la ex Presidenta de la República de Costa Rica y actual vicepresidenta de la Junta de Asesores de IDEA Internacional, Laura Chinchilla, protagonizará el próximo lunes 12 de abril la apertura de la segunda fase del Programa de Capacitación de Precandidatas de la Escuela de Formación Política para Mujeres Líderes del Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral.

Join the high-level panel discussion on one of today’s most pressing global issues with some of the world’s leading experts on democracy.

El Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI) invita a la sesión académica sobre El Súper Ciclo Electoral de América Latina 2021/2024. El evento coordinado por el Comité de Estudios de Asuntos Latinoamericanos, contará con la presencia de Daniel Zovatto, Director Regional de IDEA Internacional para América Latina y el Caribe.

The 2013 Constitution and related electoral legal framework, introduced substantial changes to Fiji’s electoral system and processes, marking departure from previous constitutions since gaining independence in 1970. These changes also brought about new expectations, anxieties and at times also suspicions. This Webinar is intended to help iron out misunderstandings and misgivings about the current electoral system in Fiji.

Join us, for a high-level event on democratic renewal with opening keynotes by European Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen and US Assistant Secretary for Democracy Lisa Peterson. 

The sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place from 15 to 26 March 2021. The priority theme of the session is 'Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls'.