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 chloe | Jul 17, 2015 | Africa
by Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies* Without belabouring the Chinua Achebe motif, Botswana’s conservation community is less at ease than it is used to being but the country is still far from seeing things fall apart....
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 23, 2013 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights, Uncategorized
By the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London Earth Day was established in 1970. In the same year, the term ‘ecocide’ was first recorded at the Conference on War and National Responsibility in Washington. At the 1970 conference...
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