<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Leaving a Better World Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering Change, Globally Together]]></description><link>https://www.abetterfuturefoundation.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:45:19 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.abetterfuturefoundation.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[2026 Democracy Report drops: What Japan Can Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March, the V-Dem Institute released its tenth annual Democracy Report  2026 It is not comfortable reading. For the average global citizen, democracy has fallen back to 1978 levels. The enormous expansion of freedom that began with Portugal's Carnation Revolution in 1974--the "third wave of democratization" that transformed dozens of dictatorships into democracies across Southern Europe, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia--has been almost entirely erased. The current wave of...]]></description><link>https://www.abetterfuturefoundation.org/post/promoting-democracy-and-human-rights-globally</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6982c79c322c09b8312dcca6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:14:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e38353_e19491c3071948b69b4231a21423e758~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Tomoyuki Watanabe</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>