Sustaining Burma’s Hopes for Freedom

Elections alone will not answer the question of how to build a lasting democracy. Minority rights also must be protected.

With the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in a 26-year civil war, Sri Lanka had a chance for genuine reconciliation, but that chance is being  squandered by the government of…

When the authors of India’s Constitution took the extraordinarily bold step of establishing universal suffrage, thus giving the right to vote to all adult citizens, India became the world’s first…