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Democracy Day 2017: what matters for African governance?
Democracy: a world-wide work in progress for millennia Some 2,500 years ago the Athenian democracy originated; the first known model of democracy. Many years and many leaders later, democracy is still a work in progress globally. Today’s world looks far more complex than the Greek polis – and so does modern democracy. However, those initial… Read more
Youth Radicalisation and Distrust
7,000 young Tunisians have joined Daesh in Syria, constituting the largest foreign fighters’ group to date. My 22-year-old cousin could have been among them. He explained that while others have taken advantage of the political vacuum of the revolution, “I felt more marginalised”. Since 2012, Tunisia has projected into the public imagination a… Read more
Re-imagining Democracy and Life
The democratic governance system that dominated politics for the past seven decades is in a deep-seated crisis. The global experience now is of a broken political and economic system driven by insatiable self-indulgence and individualism. It has created an unprecedented ecological crisis – one that threatens not only the human race, but all life… Read more
Measuring Free and Fair Executive Elections in the 2017 IIAG
As Kenya’s Supreme Court set a new precedent by annulling the presidential vote held last August citing irregularities, a recurrent debate on democratic elections as essential ingredients for governance is accentuated. In the past decade Africa witnessed several elections, with peaks of 15 a year in 2011 and 2016. However, as the regularity of… Read more
Measuring international human rights instruments in the 2017 IIAG
The 2017 IIAG data will be released on 20 November. You will be able to download the Foundation’s report on our homepage and explore all the data for yourself with our interactive Data Portal. Human Rights Conventions: an indicator assessing the status of de jure respect for human rights The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human… Read more
