Read the full issue here: "Resilience Watch | Monthly Brief on Countries Under Restrictive Environments (Series 03, Issue 03)" 🇧🇩 In Bangladesh, the political discourse was shaped primarily by disagreements over the implementation of the July National Charter and what this means for the country’s post-uprising institutional transition. The dispute over whether
In Bangladesh, two years after the July Uprising, Bangladesh's democratic transition has entered a decisive implementation phase. While the July National Charter continues to provide a shared framework for constitutional and institutional reform, political consensus on how those reforms should be implemented has begun to erode. Constitutional disagreements, the evolving role of
In June 2026, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar, and South Korea presented divergent but interlinked pictures of democratic governance under stress. In Bangladesh, the central democratic challenge during the post election period spread to be the growing gap between ambitious post-July reform commitments and their practical implementation. Nearly two years after the 2024 July
https://www.youtube.com/live/jvtOd4lTMAc?feature=shared South Korea held a snap presidential election on 3 June 2025 after months of political instability, sparked by the controversial martial law declaration of former President Yoon Suk-yeol. The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) and the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) are hosting an online discussion to talk about the recently
Overview This issue of Data Dive is a continuation of Issue 16, which examined the dramatic political collapse triggered by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief but controversial martial law decree in December 2024. In this sequel, we turn our attention to the June 3, 2025 snap presidential election, which emerged as a
Overview The April 4 ruling by South Korea’s Constitutional Court, which unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, marks a pivotal moment in the country’s democratic trajectory. Yoon’s removal—only the second presidential ouster in eight years—comes after his controversial declaration of martial law in December 2024. As mandated by the
First published on the website of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy on 9 March 2021. "Everything will be okay.” The phrase on the T-shirt of 19-year-old Kyal Sin, who was killed by a shot to the head on the streets of Mandalay as she joined anti-coup protests in Myanmar rings in our
The world is looking at the successful conduct of the parliamentary election in South Korea as a case study in organizing elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), with the Asia Democracy Network (ADN), Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB), and the Korea Democracy Foundation co-organized on
South Korean health authorities said there were no recorded local transmission from the conduct of the parliamentary election. Here are the safety measures South Korea implemented to make the 15 April 2020 election possible despite the threat of COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the election cycle in many countries as much
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the everyday life of people around the world affecting their livelihood and restricting freedoms they enjoy. Several countries have also postponed their scheduled elections in light of the current situation but on 15 April 2020, South Korea proceeded with its legislative election in what the world now
27 March 2020 As the world continues to face the severe outbreak of COVID-19, states across Asia are taking measures to tackle the epidemic and protect the health of their population, which is obviously the foremost concern. At the same time, while everyday life is disrupted, elections and democratic processes are also
For Immediate Release 28 June 2016 Bangkok ANFREL Condemns Police Action against South Korean electoral reform group, Change 2016 The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) expresses solidarity with South Korea’s Citizen’s Network for General Election of 2016 (Change 2016) and supports its appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on the
BANGKOK, 18 December 2013 – The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), a regional NGO that promotes and supports democratization in Asia, wishes to express its concern about the illegal intervention by state agencies in the South Korean Presidential Election in December of 2012. Those facts which have come out about the