For nearly two decades, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has had official standing with Liberal International (LI), the global association of like-minded political parties. Now, LI is working on the ground in Washington DC to deliver a project that will give women a more prominent voice in the structure of political parties.

The Andorra Liberal Manifesto – LI’s blueprint for liberalism in the twenty-first century – has reached India and Sri Lanka as LI secretary general, Gordon Mackay, holds meetings with liberals in the South Asian countries.

Chair of LI LGBTI Rights Working Group Frank Van Dalen has slammed Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales' latest move to curb the rights of women and the LGBTI minority in the country by pushing for the adoption of the Life and Family Protection Bill.

LI President of Honour and ALDE Party President Hans Van Baalen MEP has endorsed the new LGBTI Liberals of Europe Network which was founded on the fringes of EuroPride in Stockholm, Sweden at a gala dinner event hosted by the Swedish International Liberal Center (SILC, LI cooperating organisation). The LGBTI Liberals of Europe is a European organisation formed of liberal LGBTI networks from across Europe and it was established by HBT Liberalerna (Sweden), Certi Diritti (Italy), Gaylib (France) and LiSL (Germany).

“We live your history!” That is what a visitor said after touring the Stasi Records Archive a few weeks ago. The visitor was Chinese, exiled from his homeland as a critical journalist fearing detention. “We live your history” – meant that what he had learned about the content of the archive and the way secret police had persecuted people 30 and 40 years ago sounded to him like a report from his home country he was forced to leave in the world of today.

Chair of Liberal International Human Rights Committee Markus Loening has reacted strongly to the news of the politically motivated arrest of the prominent Bangladeshi journalist Shahidul Alam. Alam was detained on 5 August 2018 for criticizing the government and its supporters for targeting students peacefully protesting for road safety in Bangladesh in an Al-Jazeera interview.

As part of a Liberal International (LI) campaign to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights parliamentarians from LI member parties are being invited to write short opinion articles pertaining to some of the UDHR’s primary articles.

After meeting with the executive management of Thai Airways International (the national carrier of Thailand), Kiat Sittheeamorn - a member of LI’s human rights committee and deputy leader of the Democrat Party (LI full-member) – has won an important victory for the advancement of women’s rights in Thailand.

The President of Liberal International, Dr. Juli Minoves, former Ambassador to the UN and Foreign Minister of Andorra, has expressed his condolences to the family of former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.

Having secured the support for a resolution on assisted dying at LI’s 200th executive committee meeting in Berlin last June, Tuesday 7th August marked a historic moment for Chile and a milestone for Chilean Liberals, as the Parliamentary Committee on Healthcare approved legislation of a bill on Euthanasia, presented by Liberal International Partido Liberal de Chile (LI full member). Leader of the PLC, Vlado Mirosevic MP, described the result as a “huge step forward for freedom in Chile.”

Liberal International has followed with great concern at the dismantlement of any semblance of democracy in Cambodia over the last 12 months which culminated yesterday with sham elections.