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 ...

For the last week Bart and I have been in Armenia for a joint seminar with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty and the VVD, but also to witness the presidential elections. Together with participants from the Armenian National Movement, the Georgian Young Republicans and representatives from Abkhazia we discussed different aspects of election ...

Yesterday I wrote a statement for IFLRY on the current situation in Burma. I know that there is some controversy over whether to refer to Burma or Myanmar, but as I know that many pro-democracy NGOs in the West are still using Burma (for example the Burma centers), I'm just following their precedent. Now that the situation is getting ...

While the IFLRY seminar is Budapest is about to end, and while Jacob and Paola are in Cancun to attend the Liberal International congress, I am myself in Baku, Azerbaijan. Perhaps less illustrous than Budapest, and definitely less touristy than Cancun, a 100+ representatives of youth organizations have gathered here to attend the Council of ...