Tag: democracies

Trump warned the Americans of the ostensible threat to democracy by insisting, “I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country, if we don’t win this election … certainly not an election that’s meaningful”. If anyone were to question Trump’s credentials on democracy, they would be ...

LONDON, Jan 10 : More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news. The year looks set to test even the most robust ...

On August 16, mobs armed with sticks and batons attacked and set ablaze the Salvation Army Church and the Saint Paul Catholic Church in Jaranwala town in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The mob also ransacked and torched homes, leaving around 3,000 residents displaced. The discovery of torn pages of the ...

The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump on federal criminal charges is a first for the United States, but such cases have become fairly common globally. In the past two decades, several dozen nations have prosecuted a former head of government or head of state.And while Mr. Trump’s ...

It was an international summit of democracies, but several democratic countries in Asia and Africa were absent; some were not invited and some turned down the invitation. Pakistan declined to attend, giving no excuse except that Islamabad will engage Washington, a close ally, bilaterally. The real reason for Pakistan's ...

It was supposed to be in person, but the long tail of the COVID-19 pandemic meant Joe Biden’s first gathering of the world’s democracies would have to be held virtually. Opening the first day of meetings with heads of states of more than 100 countries that joined the Summit ...

WASHINGTON — A few days before President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, a virtual meeting of more than 100 countries that opens on Thursday, the Chinese foreign ministry released a stinging report about the American democratic system.The “gunshots and farce on Capitol Hill have completely revealed what is underneath the ...

US President Joe Biden is reportedly looking to host a virtual “Summit for Democracy” in December. The summit will include both political leaders and apparently people from the private sector and civil society. The summit “will galvanize commitments and initiatives across three principal themes: defending against authoritarianism, fighting corruption, ...

By Hillel C. Neuer June 21, 2021 6:09 pm ET The Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Feb. 27, 2020. Photo: denis balibouse/Reuters Geneva The U.S. plans to seek a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council and work to reform it. “Those with the ...

B L Saraf Now that Chairpersons of the newly constituted District Development Councils (DDCs) are in the process of being elected/ selected, we believe ,these councils will soon get under way to discharge their prescribed duties. We hope, once that happens a democratic atmosphere of sorts will somehow set ...