Full Coverage: Democracy

30.04.2004 En avril 1994, l'ensemble de la communauté internationale avait les yeux rivés sur les premières élections multiraciales de l'histoire de l'Afrique du Sud. Deux défis attendaient Nelson Mandela et son nouveau gouvernement : en plus d'avoir à garantir une réconciliation nationale essentielle, il devait rapidement s'attaquer à restructurer un système économique où la richesse des Blancs n'avait été « gagnée » que par l'exclusion et l'exploitation directe des travailleurs africains, métis et asiatiques. Dix ans plus tard, les inégalités s'aggravent.

28.04.2004 PRISTINA, 27 April 2004 - The Bosniac Party of Kosovo (BSK) and the Democratic Party Vatan (DSV) have today completed their registration requirements with the Political Party Registration Office of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.

27.04.2004 The National Firearms Association believes that the Government’s proposed draft-Law on Possession of Firearms should be revoked from the Parliamentary procedure, because it was prepared in an non-transparent procedure and does not correspond to the European Legislation in the field.

27.04.2004 As South Africa celebrates 10 years of democracy with grand festivities and speeches by everyone from Nelson Mandela to Tony Blair - it also marks the continent's progress on the path toward political freedom.

23.04.2004 At the press conference held today, the NGO Parliament informed the public about the raising of the intensity of the Citizens Motivation Campaign for Mass, Fair and Democratic Presidential Elections.

23.04.2004 Political parties in Sri Lanka are wary of a civil society initiative to end their practice of sending outsiders to Parliament after election victories.

23.04.2004 View the list of events being organized by Pakistani development and advocacy organisation, PILDAT.

22.04.2004 For the first time ever, Indians will vote in an all-electronic election, with nearly 7,25,000 electronic voting machines doting each voting station in the country.

21.04.2004 Au Québec comme ailleurs, le mouvement social est confronté à un même débat.On a une impression d'urgence, surtout depuis que la droite est au pouvoir au Québec, et au moment où s'annoncent également des virages accentués vers le néolibéralisme « pur et dur » au niveau canadien. Il importe donc de réfléchir à cette situation et de contribuer à identifier des pistes de solution.

21.04.2004 The Nepal media's involvement in pro-democracy agitations by political parties and subsequent police arrests has stirred a controversy in the volatile Himalayan kingdom, where the fine line between politics and the Fourth Estate seems to have blurred.

20.04.2004 The Inkatha Freedom Party will contest the results of the election after the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) failed to investigate 42 complaints of violence and intimidation lodged by the party, and declared the poll free and fair. The party claims that irregularities occurred in both national and provincial elections, but mainly in its stronghold of KwaZulu-Natal.

16.04.2004 Friedrich Ebert Schtiftung (Friedrich Ebert Foundation-FES), ja organizira virtuelnata konferencija za Evropolitika naslivona kako "Menuvanje na partiskite sistemi vo prodlabocena i prosirena Evropa". Konferencijata e vo tek, on-line, i ke trae do 30 april 2004 godina.

16.04.2004 European Commission Office in Albania and the OSCE Presence in Albania announced that, as a part of the general operation of monitoring the compliance with the obligations Albania accepted with the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement(SAA), it will engage in monitoring of electoral processes in Albania. Before any actual activities, the European Commission and the OSCE will await for the formal request to be submitted by the Albanian Parliament and Government.

16.04.2004 Journalists in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal have joined street protests along with the common man.

15.04.2004 Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress (ANC) is poised to win the National and provincial general elections in South Africa with over 68% of the total votes counted so far.

15.04.2004 Did the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), whose work followed the 1994 election, successfully heal the wounds of earlier decades in South Africa? Helena Cobban analyses South Africa's progress over the last ten years.

15.04.2004 Victoria Brittain a research associate at the London School of Economics reflects on the progress made by Rwanda to reconcile and reintegrate all Rwandans into one society.

15.04.2004 Skopje, April 14, 2004-According to the unofficial information from the MOST civic association, some 30,5% of the registered voters cast their votes at the polling stations throughout Macedonia in yesterday’s Presidential Elections.

15.04.2004 Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress (ANC) has won the national and provincial elections by scooping more than 69 % of the April 14, vote. The Democratic Alliance (DA) is second with just over 12% and the Inkhata Freedom Party (IFP) third with almost 7%. The ANC's performance is better this year compared to their 1999 victory of 66.35%.

From Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)

14.04.2004 Amnesty International says the EU's Code of Conduct on Arms Exports is not a credible alternative to the arms embargo imposed on China after the Tiananmen shootings, more so since the government is still repressing human rights activsts.