by louisa | Jul 7, 2020 | The Commonwealth
By Professor Philip Murphy, Director of ICwS The 2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was due to open in Rwanda on 22 June. In April, with only a couple of months to go, the inevitable announcement was made that the summit was being postponed to some...
by louisa | Jul 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
By William Horsley “It’s never been so bad”. With those words Kayode Soyinka, the London-based publisher of Africa Today, summed up the wide consensus that emerged from the Media Freedom Panel discussion during the Taking Stock of the Commonwealth day-long global...
by louisa | Jun 1, 2020 | Media Freedom, The Commonwealth, Uncategorized
By Syed Badrul Ahsan- Associate Fellow, & leading journalist & editor in Charge, The Asian Age, and author of ‘Sheikh Mujibur Rahman: From Rebel to Founding Father’ (2014) Populism in these times is always a danger signal for democracy and the rule of law. And...
by louisa | Mar 26, 2020 | Asia, Bangladesh, Media Freedom
By William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. William Crawley was invited by the Bangladesh High Commissioner in London to speak at the commemoration of the anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth one hundred...
by louisa | Feb 13, 2020 | The Commonwealth
by Professor Philip Murphy, Director of Institute of Commonwealth Studies In what now appears to have been a concerted manoeuvre, first New Zealand and then Australia and the UK revealed they were withholding or in the case of Australia actually cancelling financial...
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