by Talking Humanities | Apr 21, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
In a major speech two weeks ago Baroness Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth Secretary General, called for a set of guidelines for the Commonwealth to develop a more prominent and active role in preserving media freedom and journalistic independence across its...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 9, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Events, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
In the first of a series of articles focusing on the growing hostility to journalistic independence across the Commonwealth, journalist and Africa analyst Martin Plaut, calls on the 52-nation group to take a more robust view on these new threats. Do they challenge...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 2, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law
Britain’s free-trade driven post-EU ambitions pose ‘grave consequences for medium and small Commonwealth countries,’ explains Dr Kevin Barker. ‘Caribbean and Pacific states will need to swim against the anti-integration ideological tide that secured victory for Brexit...
by aseifert | Apr 2, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Republished
By Dr Sue Onslow, senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies. On 27 March 2015, Australians gathered to pay their respects to former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in a state funeral following the politician’s death late last week. As Singaporeans...
by aseifert | Jul 1, 2013 | Events, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, PotW
This event marks the launch of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change, edited by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites. While human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity...