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 | 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...
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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