Human Rights are Never Domestic
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...Why John Simpson was right to raise the issue of white poverty in South Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...BBC’s Simpson unites ANC and DA over the future of South Africa’s white population
Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It is hard these days to get the ANC and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to agree on anything. But the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson has managed it. How? With a...Thatcher, the Commonwealth and apartheid South Africa
Margaret Thatcher was not just a highly controversial figure on the British Left, and in the history of Britain’s relations with Europe. As Prime Minister, she proved equally controversial within the Commonwealth for her staunch opposition to the imposition of economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa.
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