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LGBTI vote at the UN shows battle for human rights is far from won

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 20, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights

by Professor Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Research Fellow and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria The world has edged closer to placing the same value on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people as it does on human...

Ivory – battle lines being drawn over the trade in tusks ahead of CITES summit in South Africa

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 14, 2016 | Africa

by Professor Keith Somerville, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in Western countries which believe they have a...

Nigerian corruption and crime – a fantastically corrupt culture or the result of a particular history?

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jun 2, 2016 | Africa, The Commonwealth

By Professor Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS   Just before May’s anti-corruption summit in London, British prime Minister David Cameron, made his now infamous public gaffe when he boasted to the Queen in a rather a silly, schoolboyish way that,...

Africa’s rising middle class: time to sort out fact from fiction

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 27, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Regions, The Commonwealth

  By Professor Henning Melber, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Image credit: Botschaft-MadagaskarSince the turn of the century the middle classes of the global South have taken centre stage in economic policy circles. Animated by diversification of some countries’...

Soweto uprising – 40 years on: the role of Wits students

by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 20, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth

  By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS It is hard to believe, but it is 40 years since the pupils of Soweto confronted the apartheid state. It was the beginning of the end of white rule in South Africa. But the children – many of them very young – paid a...

Observing Uganda’s 2016 Presidential Election

by chloe | Feb 22, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights, The Commonwealth

 By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, ICWS  The 18th February saw long-anticipated elections in Uganda, where the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) faced his stiffest opposition in his 30 years in office. With...
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