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...
by laura | Dec 11, 2015 | Africa, Human Rights
By Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Fellow ONCE upon a time, anti-colonial movements were fighting for human rights against oppression and injustice. Representatives of these agencies claimed a moral high ground. As the “Wretched of the Earth” they expected and demanded...
by laura | Nov 27, 2015 | Human Rights, The Commonwealth
by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Newly-released documents show that in 1985, the PM wrote to the Foreign Office seeking action on the Marxist and pro-Soviet regime in Ethiopia. Towards the end of 1985, at the height of the worst famine in modern Ethiopian...
by chloe | Oct 29, 2015 | Human Rights, The Commonwealth
by Richard Bourne, ICWS Senior Research Fellowship The meeting of Commonwealth Heads in Malta is likely to be dominated by three issues – the election of a Secretary-General to run the Secretariat from 2016, positions for the Commonwealth to take at the upcoming...
by chloe | Oct 22, 2015 | Africa, Human Rights
by Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Research Fellow The principle in dubio pro reo (“in doubt for the accused”) is that one is innocent until proven guilty are fundamental principles of justice. But another motto suggests that justice delayed is justice denied. The...
by chloe | Oct 20, 2015 | Asia, Human Rights, The Commonwealth
by William Crawley and David Page, ICWS Senior Research Fellows The articles in our edited volume Embattled Media were written before the Presidential election in Sri Lanka in which President Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated and removed from office. For some of our...
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