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Institute for New Democracies : ウィキペディア英語版 | Institute for New Democracies The Institute for New Democracies is a United States-based nonprofit organization established to promote good governance, human rights and the rule of law in countries undergoing political transformation.〔(Mission Statement ), Institute for New Democracies website, accessed February 5, 2010〕 The organization's founders included former U.S. Ambassador Victor Jackovich, historian Walter Laqueur, U.S. foreign policy expert Martha Brill Olcott, philosopher/journalist/diplomat Michael Novak, Margarita Assenova, Mjusa Sever, journalist Mike Stone, Ilona Teleki of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Aimee Breslow, Marek Michalewski, Ruth Greenspan Bell, and Polish politician and journalist Radosław Sikorski. Lawrence DeNardis, a former U.S. Congressman and university president, is currently chairman of its governing board; Margarita Assenova is its executive director.〔(Board Members ), Institute for New Democracies website, accessed February 5, 2010〕 ==Projects== The Institute is partnered with the CSIS New European Democracies Project in the "U.S.-Kazakhstan Task Force: Shaping and Supporting Kazakhstan’s OSCE Chairmanship Agenda," an initiative aimed at strengthening U.S.-Kazakh relations and assisting Kazakhstan in efforts related to its one-year chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010. The project is funded by the government of Kazakhstan.〔(U.S.-Kazakhstan OSCE Task Force ), Center for Strategic and International Studies website, and (Kazakhstan Project ), Institute for New Democracies website, both accessed February 5, 2010〕 The Institute has worked in Uzbekistan since 2005 and was officially registered in the country in 2008.〔(Institute for New Democracies formally registered in Uzbekistan ), Embassy of Uzbekistan to the United States, news release, July 9, 2008〕 Currently, the Institute is engaged in a project to strengthen human rights protection in the country. With funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Institute is working on implementation of Uzbekistan's new ''habeas corpus'' law (which requires that a judge review nearly all arrests within 72 hours〔(Human Rights Legislation in Uzbekistan ), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 16, 2009〕), consulting on prison reform and supporting local human rights activists engaged in independent prison monitoring, and organizing roundtable discussions to promote religious freedom.〔(Uzbekistan Project ), Institute for New Democracies website, accessed February 5, 2010〕 A report released by the Institute in 2009 noted that since 2000 Uzbekistan had reduced its rate of incarceration to less than half of its previous level and had eliminated the death penalty.〔
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