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🚀 Call for Ideas: Help Shape ICSW 2025 in Bangkok! The main focus of ICSW 2025 will be democracy, innovation, and human rights — and we want your voice to be part of it. Whether you’d like to host a session, co-develop an activity, share your expertise, or support the event in another way, we’re inviting ideas from individuals and organizations around the world. […]

The Hong Kong 47 case marks one of the most significant political prosecutions under the National Security Law (NSL). In January 2021, 47 pro-democracy figures were arrested for organizing an unofficial primary election, which authorities claimed was a plot to subvert state power. Since the 2019 protests, Hong Kong’s legal autonomy under “one country, two […]

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Seoul | April 4, 2025 The Asia Democracy Network acknowledges today’s historic ruling by South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol. The decision reaffirms the strength of South Korea’s democratic framework, upheld not only through institutional checks and balances but also through the active engagement of its people in […]

Briefing Paper on the recent Election Timing & Institutional Reforms: A Constitutional Debate Webinar

Join our webinar, co-organized by the Asia Democracy Network and Lady Liberty Hong Kong, on the evolving legal and political landscape in Hong Kong following the sentencing of the 47 pro-democracy activists under the National Security Law. We’ll explore the impact on judicial independence, civil liberties, and regional implications, while examining whether legal challenges still offer hope for […]