PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Congress recognizes a private, nonprofit group in Washington, D.C. called the National Endowment for Democracy. It says the Endowment is not a U.S. government agency. The Endowment’s job is to help build and support democratic systems around the world through private efforts. Its main goals include promoting individual and human rights, arranging exchanges between U.S. private groups (especially the two major U.S. political parties, labor, and business) and democrats abroad, taking part in training and institution-building, strengthening elections with local democratic forces, encouraging cooperation on democratic pluralism, and helping democratic development in ways that fit U.S. national interests and the needs of the groups it assists.

Title 22, §4411

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(a)The Congress finds that there has been established in the District of Columbia a private, nonprofit corporation known as the National Endowment for Democracy (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Endowment”) which is not an agency or establishment of the United States Government.

(b)The purposes of the Endowment, as set forth in its articles of incorporation, are—

(1)to encourage free and democratic institutions throughout the world through private sector initiatives, including activities which promote the individual rights and freedoms (including internationally recognized human rights) which are essential to the functioning of democratic institutions;

(2)to facilitate exchanges between United States private sector groups (especially the two major American political parties, labor, and business) and democratic groups abroad;

(3)to promote United States nongovernmental participation (especially through the two major American political parties, labor, business, and other private sector groups) in democratic training programs and democratic institution-building abroad;

(4)to strengthen democratic electoral processes abroad through timely measures in cooperation with indigenous democratic forces;

(5)to support the participation of the two major American political parties, labor, business, and other United States private sector groups in fostering cooperation with those abroad dedicated to the cultural values, institutions, and organizations of democratic pluralism; and

(6)to encourage the establishment and growth of democratic development in a manner consistent both with the broad concerns of United States national interests and with the specific requirements of the democratic groups in other countries which are aided by programs funded by the Endowment.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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Pub. L. 98–164, title V, § 501, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1039, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘National Endowment for Democracy Act’.”

§4411 Findings; Statement of Purposes

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Title 22, §4411

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