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7 Jul 2022

Sharma Taylor in Conversation with Alexia Tolas

Listen to the conversation between Sharma Taylor and Alexia Tolas, both shortlisted for the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, to ...

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10 Jun 2022

Patently necessary: taking health into our own hands

From the very beginning of the pandemic, monopolies on the production of tests and medicines were a part of the problem of surviving it.

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14 Apr 2022

Photography Open Call: Climate Change

To coincide with the Commonwealth People’s Forum in Rwanda and the run-up to COP27 in Egypt, the Commonwealth Foundation is ...

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7 Mar 2022

Threats to democracy are all around us

We've all been complicit in a steady, devastating erosion of the central ideals of liberal democracy.

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13 Jan 2022

Tuvalu, Tuvalu

Tuvalu, Tuvalu by Sir Iftikhar Ayaz KBE Tuvalu, Tuvalu – Our home and friend Our birth place – And end We love you There comes […]

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13 Jan 2022

Festive Poetry Event

Every society, every community, has its poets. They are the first storytellers, the ones who weave words into images, capture and ...

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13 Jan 2022

Time travel

Time travel by H.E. Dr Kevin M. Isaac Has time ever tempted you to run away, as far as your feet would go; to grab […]

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13 Jan 2022

I don’t want a dead hero

I don’t want a dead hero ~Farah~ I don’t want a dead hero However noble it may sound Yes, you can write stories about him […]

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15 Dec 2021

Seasonal message from the Director-General

Dr Anne T. Gallagher AO reflects on 2021 in this festive message.

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11 Nov 2021

Climate justice: small island states push back

On the first day of the COP26 climate summit, Tuvalu and Antigua and Barbuda took an important step towards climate justice.

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