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 2, 2015 | The Commonwealth
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies After months of campaigning in the quiet corners of diplomatic offices, online on social media and in speeches from Gaborone to Valletta, the Commonwealth heads of government voted on...
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 | Nov 11, 2015 | Africa, The Commonwealth
by Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies There is a remarkable public amnesia in the UK that 50 years ago on 11th November, Southern Rhodesia defiantly declared its independence from Britain. In a highly theatrical performance, and under the gaze of a...
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 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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