Part of: Prelims and GS II – International relations
Context India will participate in U.S.A’s “Summit for Democracy” to be held on 9th and 10th December.
Key takeaways
More than 100 democratic countries are invited to participate at the summit.
The summit is expected to include “individual and collective commitments to defend democracy and human rights at international level.
Key themes: “Defending against authoritarianism”, “Addressing and fighting corruption”, and “Advancing respect for human rights”.
An attempt was earlier made by the U.S. and the U.K. to expand the G-7 meeting into a “D-10” or group of 10 democracies that would represent 60% of the global population, including Australia, India and South Korea, along with the G-7 group.
The Group of Seven (G7) is an inter-governmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States
