Who’s excluded from 2024’s bumper crop of elections?
In 2024 the world will see an unprecedented election year. For the first time, countries home to more than half…
Theme: Gender Equality & Inclusion
How the BJP Wins Over Women
By offering women norm-compliant ways to engage with politics, the ruling BJP has reversed its historic disadvantage with women. India…
Demo Finland brings the voice of young people to the Summit for Democracy
In March, the third international Summit for Democracy will bring together heads of state as well as representatives of civil…
Saudi Arabia: NGOs renew call for lifting of the illegal travel ban on women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul
The undersigned organisations call on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights…
Call for nominations: 2024 disability inclusion award
InterAction established the Disability Inclusion Award in collaboration with Mobility International USA (MIUSA) in 2009 in honor of the U.N. Convention on the…
Nigerian Women in Politics: 24 Years After the Return to Electoral Democracy
This paper discusses the underrepresentation of women in Nigerian politics since the country’s transition to democracy in 1999. It highlights…
Statement by principals of the inter-agency standing committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement and hunger in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic…
Welcome to our first South African Youth Conference!
People, communities, and businesses flourish when there is peace, openness, and democracy. We live in times when these values are…
The Role of Civil Society in National Education Policy in the Global South
Despite the prominence of civil society advocacy on education since the 1990s, there is limited consensus about the nature of…
Project Oasis: Sustainability in practice
In 2014, a group of journalists made the bold move to leave the Slovakian newspaper SME after it was partially…