International Democrat Union
The International Democrat Union IDU is an International Women's Democrat Union as well as 6 affiliated regional organizations European People's Party together with European Conservatives and Reformists Party.
The IDU allows centre-right conservative political parties around the world to setting contacts and discuss different views on public policy and related matters. Their stated goal is a promotion of "democracy and [of] centre-right policies around the globe". The IDU has some overlap of constituent parties with the Centrist Democrat International CDI, but the CDI is more centrist and communitarian than the IDU.
The multinational was founded in 1983 as the umbrella organisation for the European Democrat Union EDU, Caribbean Democrat Union CDU, and the Asia Pacific Democrat Union APDU. Created at the instigation of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush, the organisation was founded at a joint meeting of the EDU and APDU in London, United Kingdom.
The IDU has several regional affiliates: the European People's Party, and the women's fly in the International Women's Democrat Union.