International Council for Democracy

International Council for Democracy Conseil international pour la démocratie
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Administrative centre	Ashcombe, Estmere
Official languages	Gaullican, Estmerish
Legislature	Council
Establishment
• Ashcombe Resolution	1938
Website www.icd.org

The International Council for Democracy (ICD) is an international organization intended to uphold and promote democracy and the rule of law in its member states and around the world. Founded in 1938, it is often considered a continuation of the Grand Alliance from the Great War. Two subsidiary institutions, the Global Institute for Fiscal Affairs and Global Development Bank, operate as organs of the ICD. The ICD is an official Community of Nations observer and the two organizations have a history of cooperation. The organization is headquartered in Ashcombe, Estmere.

Activities

The ICD aims to uphold and promote democracy on the international stage. As such, many of its activities seek to bolster existing democracies and assist in the process of democratization in emerging democracies. One of its best-known activities is the organization’s annual Report on Global Democracy, which assesses the state of democracy in its member states and partners. States are evaluated and compared in the report’s National Democracy Index.

The organization also monitors elections in member states and partners through its Office for Elections and Democratic Institutions (OEDI). Election monitors are deployed on a short-term or long-term basis spanning each phase of the electoral process.

The ICD has ongoing partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote democracy and human rights in both developed and developing countries. The ICD regularly issues joint reports with NGOs on topics including the rights of LGBT people, women, children, and racial and ethnic minorities, prison conditions, the use of torture and the death penalty, and freedom of the press. These reports are circulated among other international organizations and member states and intended to inform debate regarding the protection of human and civil rights in national and international law.

Structure

Institutions:

• Secretariat
  • Secretary-General
  • Office for Elections and Democratic Institutions
  • Office for Human Rights
  • Office for the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption
• The Council
• Assembly of Ministers (Foreign ministers meeting group)

Associated institutions:

• Global Institute for Fiscal Affairs
• Global Development Bank

Membership

Member states

State	Head of State	Year Joined	Notes
Amathia	Augstine Valeria
Azmara
Belmonte	Caetano Villa-Lobos	1938
Cassier	Jean Tremblay	1938
Eldmark	Markus Sven	1938
Template:Country data Estmere	Alice Roberts	1938
Gaullica	Jean Valette	1938
Caldia	Kenneth IV	1952
Imagua and the Assimas	Edmondo Privitera	1948	Partner from 1938 to its independence 1948
Kesselbourg	William II	1938
Marirana	Lorenzo Occhetto	1940 (1988)	Suspended 1972 Partner 1980 Readmitted 1988
Montecara	Colegio	1938
Solstiana		1938
Piraea
Satucin	Théodore I	1953
Tsabara	Atwan al-Tughluq
Werania	Charlotte I	1938

Partners

State	Head of State	Year Partnered	Notes
Sanslumiere	Arnaud Noirenègre	1984

Former members

• Etruria - withdrew in 2018
• Rwizikuru - suspended in 1959, expelled in 1964