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No longer at ease – clouds on the horizon for Botswana’s conservation success story

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....

Time to listen to the Commonwealth’s First Nations

by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Sep 12, 2013 | Human Rights, Uncategorized

By Richard Bourne and Helena Whall The Commonwealth’s First Nations: Rights, Status and Struggles in the run up to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, 2014 – Conference Programme Not since Idi Amin’s threat to attend the London Commonwealth summit in...

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...

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