Carl Gershman, President of the NEDTranscript of Opening Remarks IRI Democracy Backlash SeminarBelgrade, SerbiaThank you, Liz and thank you to IRI for putting this meeting together. It's an important discussion. I am also very pleased to...

Successful NED grantees share their experiences, replicate programsRecent NED-supported programs played an important role in helping to initiate two democratic transitions in Central Europe. In September 1998, a coalition of democratic parties in Slovakia won a dramatic victory over the authoritarian...

Helping democrats in closed societies Early investment by NED in the democratic struggles in the 1980s in Central Europe and the Soviet Union –  and many countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa – contributed to significant democratic breakthroughs.

The Endowment presented its annual Democracy Award to Veton Surroi, the editor and publisher of Koha Ditore, the most widely read Albanian language daily in Kosovo, and Natasa Kandic, head of the Belgrade-based human rights organization, the Humanitarian Law Center,...