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The hazards of journalism in Africa
By Martin Plaut Reporting in a war zone The war in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, which erupted in November 2020, is probably the bloodiest current conflict in the world. It is also the least reported. Somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people have...
Where is the political leadership in the Commonwealth to reverse the assault on press freedom?
By William Horsley The decisive moment was to be a virtual meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in March to consider adopting a set of principles on ‘media and good governance’, with freedom of expression, the role of the media and journalists’ safety at their...
Commonwealth urged to safeguard the power of the pen
By Dr Kiran Hassan Protecting media freedom within the Commonwealth was the subject of an event held by the Commonwealth Foundation on 26th January 2021. The Institute of the Commonwealth Institute Studies, University of London, held a conference with a...
Taking Stock of 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...
Silencing the media in pandemic times
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...
A tumultuous season: the emergence of independent Bangladesh and the British media
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...
The Commonwealth Secretariat: A little local difficulty – or terminal decline?
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...
The Commonwealth media’s role in elections: some lessons from Britain and Canada
by William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The principles of freedom of information and freedom of expression are regarded as the core of shared values to which Commonwealth governments aspire. In practice many Commonwealth countries...
“A New Internationalism” v. “We Will Strengthen Britain In The World” in British General Election manifestos, 2019 – with reference to 1945
by Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) When reading the party manifestos for the forthcoming General Election, I was struck by the evolution in party thinking – at least as expressed to the voters – since the war. In my lecturing, I used to dwell on the difference...
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