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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation

Comprehensive sexuality education combats violence against women and girls

RCS Ottawa

Aug 21, 2016

Comprehensive sexuality education combats violence against women and girls

An estimated one in three women and girls worldwide report suffering physical or sexual abuse, most often at the hands of an intimate...

What people think Modi should speak about on (India's) Independence Day - Aug 16

RCS Ottawa

Aug 15, 2016

What people think Modi should speak about on (India's) Independence Day - Aug 16

The Independence Day address has been a unique platform for Prime Ministers. It gave them the grandest of stands in the country from...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

The Commonwealth What’s the point of it?

“THERE’S been an existential question mark over the Commonwealth for some time,” says a seasoned diplomat in its secretariat in London....

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Does Commonwealth Day matter?

Sandwiched between International Women’s Day (8 March) and St Patrick’s Day (17 March) is Commonwealth Day. Celebrated in 2016 on Monday...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Commonwealth Oral Histories

The aim of this AHRC funded project is to produce a unique digital research resource on the oral history of the Commonwealth since 1965....

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Calabash International Literary Festival: Readings, music and storytelling on Jamaica’s glorious Tre

Regional winner of the Commonwealth short story prize, Stefanie Seddon writes about her experience at Calabash alongside Man Booker...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Canada: $10m boost for mobility scholarship fund

A Canada-based scheme that funds mobility scholarships for projects promoting global leadership between Canada and the Commonwealth has...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Spotlight on The Round Table Journal – June 2016

Out of Malta: Beginning Anew by Stuart Mole The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Malta witnessed high drama in...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

ACU Conference of University Leaders 2016

Defining the responsible university: society, impact and growth Accra International Conference Centre, Ghana, 27-29 July 2016 Higher...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist

Conspiracy theorists like to think that prize long-and shortlists are compiled with an eye to various external factors: are there enough...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 11, 2016

Secretary-General joins top academics to define ‘responsible university’

Ghana, 27 July 2016: The Commonwealth Secretary-General will challenge universities to increase the number of scholarships they make...

RCS Ottawa

Aug 10, 2016

What do we do about FGM? – Health and Education online discussion

How health and education policies can end the scourge of female genital mutilation (FGM) will be the big question on the Commonwealth’s...

RCS Ottawa

Jul 7, 2016

University degrees are not the answer for Africa’s unemployed youth

Employers throw out degrees Companies like Ernst & Young, PWC, and Penguin have already made bold steps in that direction, doing away...

RCS Ottawa

Jul 7, 2016

Africa's Brain Drain vs Brain Gain

The World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 showed Burundi as the African country least able to hold on to its top...

RCS Ottawa

Jun 19, 2016

Find Your Voice - "SHOP" Nov 30, 2016

IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU SAY, BUT HOW YOU SAY IT - Ottawa high school students are invited to compete at the November 30, 2016 "Shakespeare...

Engaging and Empowering Canadian Youth - NSCF

RCS Ottawa

Jun 19, 2016

Engaging and Empowering Canadian Youth - NSCF

Each May, over one hundred Canadian youth travel to, the nation's capital, to attend the National Student Commonwealth Forum (NSCF) a...