by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History
December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
by anna | Nov 27, 2018 | Africa, Human Rights, Media Freedom, Uncategorized
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies A combination of fragile democracies, autocratic regimes and weak civil societies has put internet access and social media in Africa at serious risk. With an estimated 27.7% of Africa’s 1.2...
by anna | Nov 26, 2018 | Asia, Human Rights, Media Freedom
William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow Accusations of ‘fake news’ which target the credibility of responsible media organisations, pale both in the face of the violence and danger to life and limb that journalists in many Asian countries face, and of legal...
by chloe | Apr 12, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The question of whether the Commonwealth is relevant invites others: – What do we understand by ‘the Commonwealth’? – Relevant to whom? If we consider the Commonwealth as an...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 20, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights
by Professor Henning Melber, ICWS Senior Research Fellow and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria The world has edged closer to placing the same value on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people as it does on human...
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