National Endowment for Democracy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy


00:00:47 1 History
00:00:56 1.1 Founding
00:03:50 1.2 Later history
00:04:31 2 Overview
00:05:57 2.1 Source of funding
00:07:21 2.2 Board
00:09:31 3 Activities
00:09:46 3.1 Funding of election monitors and democratic advocacy
00:10:50 3.2 Central America
00:11:19 3.3 China
00:11:28 3.3.1 Democracy and human rights advocacy
00:12:51 3.3.2 Xinjiang
00:14:38 3.4 Iran
00:16:17 3.5 Latin America and the Caribbean
00:16:27 3.5.1 Ecuador
00:16:59 3.5.2 Venezuela
00:18:02 3.6 Western Europe
00:18:33 3.7 Eastern Europe
00:18:48 3.7.1 Ukraine
00:19:23 3.7.2 Russia
00:19:53 3.7.3 Others
00:20:24 4 Democracy Award
00:21:19 4.1 Recipients
00:21:27 5 Criticisms
00:23:21 6 Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
00:24:13 6.1 Reports
00:24:45 7 See also



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The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 with the stated goal of promoting democracy abroad. It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress in the form of a grant awarded through the United States Information Agency (USIA). It was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation, and in turn acts as a grant-making foundation. In addition to its grants program, NED also supports and houses the Journal of Democracy, the World Movement for Democracy, the International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Reagan–Fascell Fellowship Program, the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and the Center for International Media Assistance.