The Digital Silk Road: China and The Rise of Digital Repression in the Indo-Pacific
In October 2023, at the third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China’s leader Xi Jinping signalled his intention to…
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AD797: The Togolese deplore the economic situation of the country as well as their living conditions
Togo’s economy remains dependent on the rest of the world, which makes it vulnerable to current crises. The decline in…
The Mounting Damage of Flawed Elections and Armed Conflict
Flawed elections and armed conflict contributed to the 18th year of democratic decline. But by drawing strength from diversity, protecting dissent, and…
The Role of Search Engines in Contesting or Reinforcing Election Fraud Narratives
This commentary from the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy is a continuation of a limited number of previous studies that…
Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Elections
About 5 percent of the world’s population identify as Indigenous, including more than 5,000 cultures that speak over 4,000 languages.…
Toolkit: Like, Share, Change: Youth, politics & the digital sphere
This toolkit results from the experience and learning gathered by DRI Tunisia and its partners Al Qatiba and Yaluna Magazine during the implementation of…
Democracy and Geopolitics Are on the Ballot in 2024
The Pandora Papers provide the most comprehensive look yet into the sprawling transnational networks that allow corrupt public officials and economic elite to launder and hide their illicit assets everywhere from the British Virgin Islands to Washington, D.C. The investigation shows that wealthy countries need to do far more to clean up the fiscal paradises they provide for kleptocrats, including by regulating professional enablers such as trust companies in South Dakota in the United States and real estate agents in London. U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week to do just that on the national-level. The global scale of the problem that the 11.9 million leaked confidential files from 14 financial service providers implicating public figures from over 90 countries demonstrates there is also the urgent need for a new international institution to hold kleptocrats and their professional enablers accountable.
Visible and Invisible Bars: Political Imprisonment, Civil Death, and the Consequences of Democratic Erosion
The Pandora Papers provide the most comprehensive look yet into the sprawling transnational networks that allow corrupt public officials and economic elite to launder and hide their illicit assets everywhere from the British Virgin Islands to Washington, D.C. The investigation shows that wealthy countries need to do far more to clean up the fiscal paradises they provide for kleptocrats, including by regulating professional enablers such as trust companies in South Dakota in the United States and real estate agents in London. U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week to do just that on the national-level. The global scale of the problem that the 11.9 million leaked confidential files from 14 financial service providers implicating public figures from over 90 countries demonstrates there is also the urgent need for a new international institution to hold kleptocrats and their professional enablers accountable.
Inclusion of persons with disabilities in political parties
The Pandora Papers provide the most comprehensive look yet into the sprawling transnational networks that allow corrupt public officials and economic elite to launder and hide their illicit assets everywhere from the British Virgin Islands to Washington, D.C. The investigation shows that wealthy countries need to do far more to clean up the fiscal paradises they provide for kleptocrats, including by regulating professional enablers such as trust companies in South Dakota in the United States and real estate agents in London. U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week to do just that on the national-level. The global scale of the problem that the 11.9 million leaked confidential files from 14 financial service providers implicating public figures from over 90 countries demonstrates there is also the urgent need for a new international institution to hold kleptocrats and their professional enablers accountable.
When a dictator holds elections, it is for their own gain
The Pandora Papers provide the most comprehensive look yet into the sprawling transnational networks that allow corrupt public officials and economic elite to launder and hide their illicit assets everywhere from the British Virgin Islands to Washington, D.C. The investigation shows that wealthy countries need to do far more to clean up the fiscal paradises they provide for kleptocrats, including by regulating professional enablers such as trust companies in South Dakota in the United States and real estate agents in London. U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation this week to do just that on the national-level. The global scale of the problem that the 11.9 million leaked confidential files from 14 financial service providers implicating public figures from over 90 countries demonstrates there is also the urgent need for a new international institution to hold kleptocrats and their professional enablers accountable.