Sri Lanka – straining the Commonwealth

by | Apr 9, 2014 | Asia

By Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and a former Caribbean diplomat The association of 53 nations of the Commonwealth is facing yet another ordeal due to the actions of the government of Sri...

Hidden archives of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO): conspiracy, incompetence or loss of institutional memory?

by | Apr 4, 2014 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights

By Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS; formerly of the UK National Archives Despite rumours and half-truths long in existence, the official line that no locally created records of former colonial governments were transferred to London at independence was...