Liberal International Isaiah Berlin Lecture 2015 - Cecilia Malmström

Liberal International Isaiah Berlin Lecture 2015 – Cecilia Malmström

24/09/2015

The European Union’s Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, delivered Liberal International’s 2015 Isaiah Berlin Lecture on the subject of global free trade at the Yale Club of New York, 24th September 2015.

The lecture is introduced by LI President, Dr. Juli Minoves, with welcoming remarks from the president of the European Liberal Forum, Felicita Medved.

LI bureau celebrates Democrats’ victory in the US senate over Trump’s authoritarian politics

04/11/2026

The Liberal International bureau applauds the victory of the Democratic Party of the United States in securing majority control of both houses of the United States Congress as the results of the 2026 mid-term election results become clear.

U.S. Midterm Elections

Joint Statement for the International Day of Political Prisoners

30/10/2026

On this International Day of Political Prisoners, Liberal International joins other human rights and political organisations in standing together to affirm a simple truth: no one should be imprisoned for speaking freely, standing up for their beliefs, or exercising their fundamental rights.

International Day of Political Prisoners

Human Rights groups raise alarm over ethnically motivated abuses in Sudan

22/10/2026

In a joint submission ahead of Sudan's fourth Universal Periodic Review (Session 54, January 2027), Liberal International (LI), along with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR), exposes a pattern of ethnically motivated attacks against the Fur, Zaghawa, Massalit and other non-Arab groups in Darfur and Kordofan.

Sudan