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ActivitiesPublicationHRW Publishes Report on the 2011 Review of the UN Human Rights Council On June 24, 2010 Human Rights Watch released a report urging the UN Human Rights Council to use its upcoming review as an opportunity to develop approaches that effectively address human rights violations wherever they occur. Curing the Selectivity Syndrome examines the successes and failures of the Human Rights Council to date, and finds significant gaps in the performance of its mandate. Human Rights Watch also calls on the Council to engage on all human rights situations that need its attention and to overcome selectivity in its work. | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
DCP Board Member Publishes Article on Work of NGOs at Human Rights Council DCP Board Member, Theodore
Piccone, has written an op-ed titled "Score One for the NGOs" that is published in the July 5, 2008 edition of the Washington Post. This article
highlights the work of nongovernmental organizations in strengthening the UN Human Rights Council. | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
DCP Releases New Publication: Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response The Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) and Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) have published a book that examines how the international community has responded to recent threats to democracy in seven countries. Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response, provides an in-depth analysis of how EU states, the United States and other international actors can better fulfil their commitments to support democracy by coordinating common strategies. The book examines what the international community has done recently to advance democratic transition and consolidation in Myanmar, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and how it could do better. Strategies for Democratic Change is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate on democracy promotion, in a context in which recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan and the "colour revolutions" have brought this issue to the top of the international agenda. The joint publication, edited by DCP's Executive Director, Ted Piccone, and by FRIDE's Co-director and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme Richard Youngs, was presented at a policy forum in Brussels, on June 20, 2006. You can download the book by parts here: Download a copy of the press release on the book *Myanmar is the term for the country used officially by the United Nations. | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
DCP Publishes Chapter in Restoring American Leadership: 13 Cooperative Steps to Advance Global Progress DCP's Executive Director, Theodore J. Piccone, has written an article that is published as a chapter in Restoring American Leadership: 13 Cooperative Steps to Advance Global Progress (ed. Chuck Sudetic, 2005, Open Society Institute and The Century Foundation). This paper explores what the United States should do to improve coordination with allies to promote democracy. Improve
Coordination with Allies to Promote Democracy | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
DCP Publishes Chapter in Protecting Democracy: International Responses DCP's Executive Director, Theodore J. Piccone, has written a paper that will be published as a chapter in Protecting Democracy: International Responses (eds. Morton H. Halperin and Mirna Galic, forthcoming, Lexington Books). This paper compares the key elements of democracy clauses that currently exist and, based on that analysis, presents a model democracy clause that tries to reflect and integrate best practices in the field of international relations. International
Mechanisms for Protecting Democracy | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
International Status of
the Right to Vote | Back to Top | Back to Activities | Home |
DCP publishes Regime Change by the Book The Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) has released a new publication, Regime Change by the Book, examining how democracies should manage a crisis of leadership without provoking a crisis of regime. Building on the landmark report “Threats to Democracy: Prevention and Response,” issued by the Council on Foreign Relations, DCP examines four categories of legal regime change outside of national elections—recall and votes of no confidence, impeachment, succession, and criminalization of unconstitutional seizures of power. The report’s premise is that, in order to avoid sliding backwards to authoritarian rule, democratic governments should take steps to ensure continuity of democratic government when political leaders face pressures, sometimes violent, to step down from power. The report offers a set of practical recommendations to politicians, their lawyers and advisors for constitutional reforms which would safeguard democracy during emergencies and further consolidate the rule of law. Read the One
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Defending Democracy: Survey Rates 40 Countries on Pro-Democracy Policies
The first-ever survey assessing how democratic governments pursue a democratic foreign policy concludes that governments are doing a better job of promoting democracy beyond their borders, but still put other interests first when dealing with dictatorships or responding to violations of democratic rights. Defending Democracy: A Global Survey of Foreign Policy Trends 1992–2002, released in October, 2002, grades 40 countries on implementation of their pledges to protect and promote democracy, based on their response to such events as General Musharaff's coup in Pakistan, flawed elections in Zimbabwe earlier this year, and the attempted ouster of Venezuelan President Chavez in April. Each surveyed state is given a "defending democracy" rating ranging from very good to poor. For a full copy of the press release, click here. The survey is being released in conjunction with the November 2002 meeting of the Community of Democracies in Seoul. It was conducted by the Democracy Coalition Project and funded by the Open Society Institute. • Executive
Summary If you would like to read the report in its entirety, including 40 country specific reports, you may download it here (PDF, 16 MB). To receive a hard copy of this report, please contact our office: info@demcoalition.org | Back to Top | Back to About Us | Home |
Democracy Update December 2003 The third edition of Democracy Update, the DCP newsletter covering advances in democracy at the national and international levels, is now available. DCP will continue to keep you informed of activities and news related to the Community of Democracies and other issues through this newsletter. You can also find more information in the Democratization of International Institutions and Resources section of our website. Please distribute this newsletter freely, and should you have questions, comments or would like to submit material for inclusion in future newsletters, you may contact us at: info@demcoalition.org Democracy
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