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Elections, Democracy and Security To governments, elected officials and citizens around the world, the Commission presents a strategy to increase the likelihood that incumbent politicians and governments will deepen democracy and improve the integrity of national elections. [...] Global of Human Rights and the International recession and rising economic inequality Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, are putting pressure on many democracies, including freedom of opinion and expression, including older ones, to show that they are freedom of peaceful assembly and association, relevant to citizens’ concerns and well- the right to take part in the government being. [...] The rise of uncontrolled derives from the will of the people, political finance threatens to hollow out expressed in ‘genuine periodic elections democracy everywhere in the world, and which shall be by universal and equal rob democracy of its unique strengths— suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot.’ political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to But in additio. [...] Rights, including freedom of opinion and The integrity of elections must cover all points expression, freedom of peaceful assembly in the electoral cycle, as well as fundamental and association, the right to take part in the institutional and policy choices related to the government of one’s country through freely electoral system, competition and outcomes. [...] In looking everywhere in the world, and rob democracy forward to the world beyond 2015, we of its unique strengths compared to other believe the time is ripe to embrace the forms of governance—political equality, the concept of development as freedom, in which empowerment of the disenfranchised and the issues of rights, rule of law, democratic ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.