democracia participativa y derechos humanos / participatory democracy & human rights

Jul.8 (WMD).─ The Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD) posted its report “The Pretoria Roundtable on Democracy in Africa,” [←click here] online. The report is the result of a roundtable discussion with over 40 civil society democracy proponents from 15 African countries, held on February 24. The roundtable was organized with the support of IDASA, the World Movement for Democracy, and the African Democracy Forum (ADF), the African regional network of the World Movement.  Discussants focused on the rights of women and minorities, elections, the free press, democracy and development, democracy education, and threats to civil society.

This Pretoria roundtable is the first of a series of consultations with civil society leaders designed to assess democracy in each region of the world. The reports on each roundtable will be provided to the Chair of the Community of Democracies (CD), Lithuania, members of the CD Convening Group and other governments invited to the CD Ministerial in Vilnius in 2011.