by anna | Aug 15, 2019 | Africa, Asia, India, Media Freedom, The Commonwealth
By Dr Kiran Hassan, Associate Fellow – Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
Is China’s growing presence in the media in Commonwealth countries compatible with the Commonwealth’s core values of good governance, freedom of expression and transparency?
by anna | Jul 29, 2019 | Africa, Elections, South Africa
By Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut This piece was originally published in The Conversation on 18 July 2019 It is a quarter of a century since the end of apartheid in South Africa. But it’s easy to forget how complex, difficult and violent the birth of full...
by anna | Jul 26, 2019 | Human Rights, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, LGBT, The Commonwealth
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies welcomes a new generation of Commonwealth activists who are using established legal and constitutional tools to tackle its ‘imperial-era homophobic laws’. I went to a rather unusual meeting...
by anna | Jul 15, 2019 | Asia, Elections, Human Rights, India, Media Freedom
By Dr William Crawley – Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The national elections in India in 2019 were marked by a keen focus on every aspect of government by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi since it came to power...
by anna | Jun 27, 2019 | Asia, Elections, India
By Professor James Manor ‘Extravagant new promises can buy him time, but far from solving the problem, they compound the risk.’ ‘His main alternative is to stress not aspirations, but resentments.’ ‘He has already de-emphasised aspirational appeals: Nothing has...
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