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...
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 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...
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