30 April, London (UK) - IFLRY, the global umbrella of liberal youth and student organizations, strongly condemns today's actions by the Azerbaijani authorities against two of its Member Organizations in relation to the mourning of last year's massacre at the Baku State Oil Academy. The Azerbaijani regime today detained more than 30 mostly ...

The IFLRY Bureau is calling upon its Member Organizations to participate in the first ever Liberal Solidarity Week (LSW), to take place between the 20th and the 26th of September 2010. The LSW is an annual event in which young liberals from around the world show solidarity with people in authoritarian countries which are deprived of their ...

18 March 2010 The International Federation of Liberal Youth commemorates today the 7th anniversary of the Cuban Black Spring. Beginning on March 18th 2003, the Cuban government arrested and sentenced 75 dissidents all over Cuba – of which 54 of these are still in jail. Together with around 150 other political prisoners, they are confined in ...

The Bureau is calling for a Cuba Programme Team to provide the brains and hands in order to make full use of IFLRY's lobbying, advocacy and awareness potential in promoting human rights and democracy in Cuba. The Team will be headed by a Programme Manager who will be appointed from among the Team Members. Among other issues, the team ...

Cyberspace has from its beginning generated an intense discussion on its implications for democracy and freedom around the world. Essentially a new medium for free expression by individuals, largely unhampered by the censor of editors or governments, it promised to be the stab in the back of authoritarian governments and closed societies. A ...

The International Federation of Liberal Youth, as part of a multinational coalition of 25 human rights organizations, will gather leading human rights, democracy and anti-racism activists from around the world for a summit in Geneva on April 19, 2009, on the eve of the U.N. Durban Review Conference. Entitled the Geneva Summit for Democracy, Human ...

Adopted resolutions: 1. Resolution Expressing Concern to the State of Democracy and Rule of Law in Thailand 2. Resolution Condemning the Acts of Terrorism in Mumbai, India 3. Resolution on the Financial Crisis 4a. Resolution sur la Crise en Republique Democratique du Congo 4b. Resolution on the Crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo

On September 28th, the Belarussian citizens are going to cast their ballots for the parliamentary elections. Whether this will have any effect on the outcome of the vote is of course always doubtful in the 'last dictatorship of Europe'. At previous elections, hopes for some democratic progress have always been shattered by obvious and ...

Last week I was in Strasbourg, on a trip with lot of my connections from all over Germany so it was totally a "Tim style trip".  I was in Strasbourg for the Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group meeting on Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Summer session. There were a lot of ...

The Young Liberals for Belarus Network has launched its own web page; find it here: http://www.liberalsforbelarus.com . The Young Liberals for Belarus is a network that brings together various liberal youth organizations which are committed to - and engaged in - supporting liberalism and democracy in Belarus. This Network was established in ...