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US, allies concerned over Myanmar disbanding Suu Kyi party

The United States, Britain, Japan and Australia on Wednesday expressed their concern over the dissolution of Myanmar's former ruling party and urged a more inclusive process to return the country to democracy.

Reuters

Israel's Netanyahu says broad national consensus on judicial overhaul is possible

Israel's Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu said in an address to the U.S.-led Summit for Democracy on Wednesday that he believes it is possible to achieve a broad national consensus over his proposed judicial overhaul.

Reuters

Thailand shut out of US democracy summit again

WASHINGTON: Thailand has once more been excluded from US President Joe Biden’s second “Summit for Democracy”, where he is expected to pledge $700 million in funds and a joint alliance against surveillance technology as US concern mounts over China and Russia.

Bangkok Post

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South Korea to host third 'Summit for Democracy' -joint statement

South Korea will host a third "Summit for Democracy", President Yoon Suk Yeol said in a statement with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

Reuters

Biden starts summit with $690M pledge for democracy programs

President Joe Biden is kicking off his second Summit for Democracy with a pledge for the U.S. to spend $690 million bolstering democracy programs around the globe

The Independent UK

China threatens retaliation if Tsai and McCarthy meet

China has threatened “resolute countermeasures" over a planned meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming transit visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy China claims as its own territory

The Independent UK

The Israeli Fight Over Judicial Review Highlights the Dangers of Unconstrained Democracy

Opponents of the proposed reforms are right that unlimited majority rule is a recipe for tyranny.

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Editorial: Unrest sweeps across Israel, and Netanyahu has only himself to blame

Israelis embrace the ideal of democracy with the same fervor that Americans do. It’s why, on Monday, the people of Israel effectively shut down their country’s economy in a defiant, urgent statement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dangerous bid to overhaul — and in doing so weaken — the country’s…

Chicago Tribune

Save the Texas Observer!

UPDATE March 29, 5:15pm: We did it, y’all! Thanks to your incredible generosity and outpouring of support, the board of directors voted to reverse the closure and layoffs. The Texas Democracy Foundation, the nonprofit parent of the Texas Observer, told its staff Monday that it is laying off employees—including journalists and…

Texas Observer

Paul Mashatile, South Africa's new deputy president, has a critical task: to bring back a sense of stability

In a recent cabinet reshuffle President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Paul Mashatile, the deputy president of South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), as the country’s deputy president. The tradition in the ANC since democracy in 1994 has been for its elected deputy president to ascend first to the…

The Conversation

Suu Kyi's party dissolved

Myanmar’s election commission announced on Tuesday that the National League for Democracy (NLD) party would be dissolved for failing to re-register under a tough new military-drafted electoral law.

Bangkok Post

Nottingham MP says banning Jeremy Corbyn from standing for Labour is 'attack on democracy'

Mr Corbyn has officially been blocked from standing as a Labour MP at the next election

Nottingham Post

US makes corporate transparency commitment with 20 nations

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will announce America’s commitment to enhancing corporate transparency along with some 20 other countries at the Summit for Democracy

The Independent UK

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party dissolved

Party refuses to comply with tough new registration law proposed by military junta

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The Conversation

What's at stake as protests rock Israel: 3 essential reads on democracy, security and human rights

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, after 12 weeks of growing protest against his proposed judicial reforms, said he will order a temporary halt to the changes that aimed to rein in the power of Israel’s judiciary and grant virtually unaccountable power to politicians.

Reuters

Czech parliament speaker, in Taiwan, says we'll always stand with you

The speaker of the lower chamber of the Czech parliament told Taiwanese lawmakers on Tuesday that her country and Taiwan are bound together by freedom and democracy, pledging to always stand with the island's people.

Los Angeles Times

Analysis: Israel’s protests, Netanyahu and the crisis his government unleashed

WASHINGTON — Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is a legendary master of political survival. For once, he may have overplayed his hand.

Reason

Jason Brennan's "Democracy: A Guided Tour"

The noted Georgetown political philosopher offers a valuable overview of the political theory of the strengths and weaknesses of democracy.

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France 24

Defining moment: What next for Israel's democracy?

It's a moment of truth for Israel and its democracy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced he will pause the second and third readings of a contentious judicial reform bill that has seen hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets for months. So what happens next?

The Guardian - UK

Netanyahu halts judicial overhaul but fight is far from over

The biggest protest movement in Israeli history has achieved its goal but the country may soon face new elections

Bangkok Post

Pheu Thai targets social costs of 2006 military coup

A top Pheu Thai Party official said his party's so-called democracy, judicial procedure, parities and equalities committee will work to rid Thai society of inequalities brought on by the 2006 military coup.

Reuters

Myanmar junta leader urges foreign powers to back its return to democracy

Myanmar's military ruler on Monday urged his foreign critics to get behind his junta's planned return to democracy, instead of siding with a resistance movement he called "terrorists" bent on destroying the country.

Reuters

Biden holds second democracy summit amid doubts over progress

World leaders will gather virtually this week for the second U.S.-organized Summit for Democracy, an event critics say illustrates the halting progress the Biden administration has made in advancing human rights and democracy as a focus of its foreign policy.

The Guardian - AU

ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle faces trial after immunity defence fails

Human rights advocate says decision is a ‘major blow for Australian democracy’ and shows whistleblower protections are ‘utterly broken’

WEKU

Randall Robinson, human rights activist and lawyer, has died at 81

He died in St. Kitts of aspiration pneumonia. He was known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy.

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