by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 4, 2014 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS; formerly of the UK National Archives Despite rumours and half-truths long in existence, the official line that no locally created records of former colonial governments were transferred to London at independence was...
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...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jun 14, 2013 | Human Rights
by Helena Whall, Advocacy Officer, Oxfam On 3rd June, government and civil society representatives gathered at the UN in New York for the Signing Ceremony of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), adopted by 156 states in April. 67 nations signed the treaty on that day, one...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 26, 2013 | Asia, Human Rights
By Professor Philip Murphy, Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Well in advance of today’s meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), the Commonwealth Secretariat was attempting to dampen expectations that the Group would act decisively in...
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