Ambassador Aponte has also been a strong voice for democratic governance throughout the region.
The US state department said that the changes threaten to undermine democratic governance in the country.
Vietnam's party elite is best advised to put democratic governance on its future agenda.
They are not and should not be treated like aristocrats with special legal privileges, exempt from democratic governance.
It seems to me that you can make a fairly direct link between democratic governance and improved health care.
World Radio day recognizes the critical role of radio in development, through its contribution to media pluralism and democratic governance.
Democratic governance should be restored from the bottom up, as it has evolved everywhere, not imposed from the top down.
It will highlight the importance of freedom of information as an integral part of freedom of expression and its contribution to democratic governance.
Friday's agreement and the end of the ECOWAS sanctions brought fresh hope this weekend that Mali would return to democratic governance.
These actions show that the Government of Belarus has taken additional steps backward in the development of democratic governance and respect for human rights.
It has stymied democratic governance in the Middle East and has trapped the economies of the region in a negative cycle of low growth and under development.
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During the 300 years between the Renaissance and the Industrial Age--years of astounding advances in science, art, literature and democratic governance--the GWP per capita grew only 20%.
More than a decade later they have no idea why Americans are still dying, apparently in a dubious attempt to promote honest, competent, democratic governance in Kabul.
The report recommends that organizations working on justice and democratic governance work more directly with development organizations, for example advising them on the political implications of their work.
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Our individual rights-centered democratic governance structure is an untidy system.
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On the one hand, Chavez is trying to turn Venezuela into a proletarian dictatorshipusing Cuba as his modelwhile Uribe has done everything to strengthen the institutions of democratic governance.
In short, our overarching objective is to sustain a stable security environment and a regional order rooted in economic openness, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic governance, and political freedom.
On the one hand, Chavez is trying to turn Venezuela into a proletarian dictatorship using Cuba as his model while Uribe has done everything to strengthen the institutions of democratic governance.
Uribe also stands in the way of Chavez's aspirations of making the FARC into a legitimate political party and increasing their power inside Colombia as a way of weakening democratic governance.
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Konji Sebati (Permanent Delegate of South Africa to UNESCO) strongly supported the view of freedom of information as a fundamental right central to democratic governance, empowerment, socio-economic development, geo-political understanding and tolerance.
Pressure from Russia has only reinforced Georgia's desire to join NATO, and it has reminded the West that stability in the southern Caucasus depends on democratic governance and maintaining a country's right to choose its own alliances.
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As the UN administration works on establishing standards of locally-run democratic governance and the rule of law, the last thing it wants is a return to the instability that was a hallmark of its first few years in Kosovo.
It is also important to keep in mind that the Castro brothers remain hostile to American values and principles, especially democratic governance, capitalism and free markets and that they have spent their entire adult lives fighting against our way of life.
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Indeed, it should be noted that in the course of the current biennium (2012-13), UNESCO has provided (and will continue to do so in 2013) similar support to civil society organizations in Africa, working to promote peaceful and constructive participation in electoral politics and democratic governance - especially of youth.
The High Level Meeting with the 2012 Presidential Candidates under the theme, Promoting Peaceful Elections and Justice: Taking a Stand against Electoral Violence, Impunity and Injustice, was jointly convened by the Manhyia Palace, home of the Asantehene, and the National Peace Council, and facilitated by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG).
"Use of a voter initiative to promote democratic self-governance cannot save a law like Proposition 8 that would otherwise violate equal protection, " said the brief.
Perhaps international institutions should start closer to home by applying democratic principles in their own governance structures.
Media and information literacy (MIL) empowers citizens with skills to become the centre of the knowledge society and the democratic, development and good governance processes.
An autocratic decade and a half on, none of the Stans has managed to acquire either the democratic freedoms and relatively good governance of the European parts of the old empire, or the get-ahead economic dynamism of Asia: they have, in a literal sense, the worst of both worlds.
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