by paola | Dec 14, 2016 | Apartheid, Australia, Blog, Democracy, Human Rights, South Africa
Gareth Evans, former Foreign Minister of Australia and current Chancellor at the Australian National University, delivered the inaugural Anthony Low Commonwealth Lecture, discussing Australia’s role in facilitating the end of apartheid through Commonwealth...
by evanamusoke | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog, Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), Democracy, Elections, Good Governance, Human Rights, Maldives, Small States
Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer On 13 October 2016 the Maldives became the third country to leave the Commonwealth. The decision came after a number of years defined by a frosty relationship with the Commonwealth, centring on allegations of undemocratic...
by evanamusoke | Oct 7, 2016 | Australia, Blog, CHOGM, Decolonisation, Democracy, Development, Diplomacy, Education, Elections, Eminent Persons Group, Human Rights, Queen, Race, Small States, South Africa, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, United Nations
On 5th October, Hon Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013) spoke at King’s College, London on the future of the Commonwealth. Gillard will be a Visiting Professor in the Policy Institute at King’s College. Read the transcript of her...
by evanamusoke | Aug 9, 2016 | Apartheid, Blog, Race, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe (see also Rhodesia)
‘We reject as inhuman and intolerable all policies designed to perpetuate apartheid, racial segregation or other policies based on theories that racial groups are or may be inherently superior or inferior.’ Above is an extract from the Lusaka Declaration of the...
by evanamusoke | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, European Economic Community, Trade and Investment, United Kingdom
By Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS By voting to leave the European Union, Britain’s future relationship with its fellow Commonwealth members has assumed both a greater significance and a greater degree of uncertainty. Before the poll, the uniform message from...
by evanamusoke | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog
by Dr Eva Namusoke Postdoctoral Research Officer, Commonwealth Oral History Project The campaign ahead of the EU referendum on Thursday 23rd June has been bitterly fought by both the Remain and Leave camps, with rhetoric and statistics bombarded at voters on a daily...
