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Women and Technology: Enhancing Political Participation
Join Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) and IFES for the sixth event of a briefing series exploring each element of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5, “Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.” Join us as we hear from practitioners, organizers and researchers on how technology can engage and connect women; can help us gather data and act on violence against women; and should be considered by U.S. policymakers.
September 19, 2018
2:00 PM EDT
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Building Inclusive Democracies: Empowering Women in Economic Life
Join Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) and IFES for the seventh event of a briefing series exploring each element of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5, “Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.” We will hear from practitioners and researchers on how economic empowerment can engage and connect women worldwide, increase political participation, ensure elections and democracies are inclusive, and why these issues should be considered by U.S. policymakers.
November 14, 2018
2:00 PM EST
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Promoting American Interests Through International Disability Rights: Recommendations for the New Congress
Join IFES and the United States (U.S.) International Council on Disabilities on January 9 for an event on “Promoting American Interests Through International Disability Rights: Recommendations for the New Congress.” We will hear from practitioners and advocates on how to promote international disability rights, ensure democracies are inclusive, and why these issues should be considered by U.S. policymakers.
January 9, 2019
1:30 PM EST
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Recognizing Women's Unpaid Care Work: How Equality at Home Can Lead to Equality in the Public Sphere
Join Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) for the eighth event of a briefing series exploring each element of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5, “Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.”
January 16, 2019
9:30 AM EST
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Disinformation and Social Media in Elections: A Conversation with Justice José Luis Vargas Valdez
Join IFES and Justice José Luis Vargas Valdez for a conversation on emerging approaches to disinformation and social media in elections, both in Mexico and worldwide.
February 28, 2019
3:00 PM EST
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Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: Toward an Integrated Approach
Designing and implementing inclusive monitoring, evaluation, and learning (IMEL) processes is critical to ensuring that all individuals, regardless of identity, are meaningfully represented in democracy and governance programming and able to fully exercise their rights as citizens. Join IFES on November 20 to learn more about this integrated approach and promising practices in conducting IMEL.
November 20, 2019
9:30 AM EST
Past
Assessing Nigeria’s 2019 Elections Through a National Post-Election Survey
IFES is pleased to invite you to an event on December 10 at IFES headquarters, where the results of the post-2019 nationwide public opinion survey will be presented alongside discussions of developments in the Nigerian electoral process.
December 10, 2019
9:30 AM EST
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#InclusiveDemTalk, #DemocracyIs and #COVIDxDemocracy
Join IFES this Friday, April 24 for a Twitter chat on inclusive political and electoral participation. The chat will provide an opportunity to share experiences, best practices and lessons learned on empowering marginalized groups such as youth, women, persons with disabilities, indigenous people and displaced persons in political life.
April 24, 2020
10:00 AM EDT
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A Recovery for Everyone: Putting Gender at the Center of Democracy & Governance Responses to COVID-19
Join CEPPS in a virtual conversation to discuss how to better ensure that democracy, human rights, and governance responses to COVID-19 are gender responsive.
May 6, 2020
2:00 PM EDT
Past
Online Launch Meeting: Europe and Eurasia Regional Election Management Body Working Group on Social Media, Disinformation and Electoral Integrity
IFES looks forward to the virtual launch of a working group that will focus on tackling the challenges presented by social media and disinformation to electoral processes across Europe and Eurasia.
May 27, 2020
2:00 PM EDT