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Elections in Poland: 2023 Parliamentary Elections
The 2023 Parliamentary Elections will take place in Poland On Sunday, Oct. 15
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Political and Electoral Participation of Dalits in South Asia
ICDR and IFES partnered to produce Political and Electoral Participation of Dalits in South Asia: a Survey Report
May 11, 2023
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IFES Q&A: Vasu Mohan
A conversation with Vasu Mohan, Senior Global Advisor for Conflict, Displacement, and Minority Rights. Mohan serves as IFES's representative for the Summit for Democracy Election Integrity Cohort.
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IFES President Travels to Asia
Anthony Banbury, IFES president & CEO, travels to Asia-Pacific.
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Elections in Poland: 2020 Presidential Election
On June 28, Poland will hold a presidential election that was originally to be held on May 10 but delayed due to COVID-19. Learn more about the COVID-19 mitigation measures and what is at stake.
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IFES Speaks at Europe’s Largest Human Rights and Democracy Conference
IFES presented on disability-inclusive political participation as a human right in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, a regional meeting on human rights and democracy.
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IFES Signs Global Disability Summit Charter for Change
On July 24, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the International Disability Alliance and the Government of Kenya will host the first-ever Global Disability Summit. IFES, represented by IFES President Bill Sweeney, will participate and has signed the Charter for Change, the summit’s principal legacy document outlining actions that must be taken to ensure the rights, freedoms, dignity and inclusion for all persons with disabilities.
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India’s 37 Million “Missing Women”
As part of its U.S. Agency for International Development-funded Women’s Legal Rights Initiative in India, IFES launched the “Dignity of the Girl Child” campaign to address sex selection, infanticide and neglect of the girl-child. IFES’ campaign combined research and advocacy with targeted community-based interventions to sensitize and mobilize district and local administrators, the legal community, civil society, and the public on the need to value the life of the girl-child. It also engaged men as program allies and key decision makers.
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New Version of Moroccan Sign Language Mobile App Released
On September 22, IFES Morocco released an updated version of its electoral lexicon mobile phone app. The app, named صوتي حقي , or “My Vote, My Right,” is an accessible civic education tool created for Moroccan citizens, particularly for those in the Deaf community. The app features live-person videos of all terms of the Moroccan sign language electoral lexicon in French, Arabic, and Moroccan sign language, as well as definitions of the terms in all three languages.
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IFES CEO Presents Youth Engagement Strategies at Indian Election Commission Conference
On January 24, the Election Commission of India hosted an international conference in New Delhi focused on sharing successful strategies to empower young and future voters throughout the country. During the conference, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) President and CEO William R. Sweeney, Jr. presented IFES’ approach to engaging young people, as well as some of the organization’s programmatic methods.