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Forty-three years of Earth Day, and still no UN Ecocide Law

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...

Kenyatta’s ICC trial creates dilemma for the Commonwealth and Kenya’s aid donors and friends

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 22, 2013 | Africa

By Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies & Politics and International Relations Department, University of Kent Kenya’s new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has moved quickly to stress that he will govern on behalf of all Kenyans and...

Thatcher, the Commonwealth and apartheid South Africa

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 17, 2013 | Africa, Human Rights

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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