Taiwan Foundation for Democracy


The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy is a non-profit organisation headquartered in Taipei. Originally proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, the foundation's purpose is to promote democracy around the world. The Foundation was established in June 2003 as a non-partisan, non-profit organization.
The foundation was one of the largest donors to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, donating US$1 million towards the construction of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC.
On November 9, 2009 the TFD unveiled a segment of the Berlin Wall to remark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a symbol for the quest for global democracy.

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TFD publishes the semi-annual Taiwan Journal of Democracy, a refereed journal for the study of democratic politics, especially democratic development in Taiwan and other Asian democracies.
TFD also publishes in English the annual China Human Rights Report, Taiwan Democracy Quarterly in Mandarin Chinese with an English edition due in late 2018, among other publications.