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 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...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jun 3, 2013 | Africa
Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Keith Somerville raised several important points in his review of John Simpson’s controversial coverage of white poverty in South Africa. As a former colleague at the BBC and a fellow research...
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