by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Nov 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Keith Somerville President Jacob Zuma has reacted angrily to the use of the term ‘born frees’ for the generation of young South Africans who will get their first chance to vote in next year’s elections. Speaking at a voter registration drive in Atteridgeville, west...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Oct 17, 2013 | Africa
Elephants are a keystone species in ecological systems, thinning woodland, creating areas of grassland or savannah and having a massive influence on the flora but also the other fauna of an area. Where they survive in Africa they are generally a threatened species –...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Oct 16, 2013 | Asia, Human Rights
by Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM In this Inaugural Lecture marking the 100th Anniversary of the Charter of the Bristol Commonwealth Society, Sir Ronald Sanders [1] argues that the inter-governmental Commonwealth is a diverse group that is now plagued by mistrust and...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Sep 12, 2013 | Human Rights, Uncategorized
By Richard Bourne and Helena Whall The Commonwealth’s First Nations: Rights, Status and Struggles in the run up to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2014 – Conference Programme Not since Idi Amin’s threat to attend the London Commonwealth summit in...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...
Recent Comments