democracy under strain kansmus@gmail.com In September 1997, the Inter parliamentary Union (IPU) adopted a universal declaration which glues to the principles of democracy. The international convention on new and restored democracies (ICNRD) got to the tunnel's light in 1988 under the initiative of Philippines president Corazon C Aquino subsequent to the normatively sloganeered "people power revolution" ousting the two decade despotism of Ferdinand Marcos. In 2006, following up the outcome the 6th ICNRD conference in Doha, Qatar, the international day of democracy was adopted on 8th November, 2007 to take place every 15th September with a resolution entitled "support by the United Nations system of efforts of governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies. The resolution was preambled to affirm thus "while democracies share common features, there is no single model of democracy and that democracy doesn't belong to any count...
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