| Rights & Democracy: Democratic Development Programme and List of Currrent Projects (5338 words) |
 | The Democratic Development Programme identifies strategies to support democratic development using an innovative framework of human rights criteria, and is addressing the emerging international debate on the notion of a right to democracy. |
 | A public forum on democratic participation in the aftermath of September 11 was also held in Ottawa in partnership with the Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Partnership Africa-Canada and South Asia Partnership Canada. |
 | Three case studies on democratic transition and the development of participation in democracy are presented: the organization of women workers in the maquilas factories in northern Mexico; the rights of indigenous peoples in a community in Oaxaca; and the participation of young people in an underprivileged neighbourhood of Mexico City. |