Commonwealth News: April 2010

Top stories:

Watch the 2010 Commonwealth Lecture live online

• Futurologist Dr James Martin will speak on ‘Science and Technology: Impacts on Society in the 21st Century’

Debt management training only a click away

• E-learning package helps users acquire knowledge and skills that underpin effective management of national external debts

Universities not doing enough to produce professionals

• ‘We must do more’ says Chairperson of Association of Commonwealth Universities

News from the Commonwealth Secretariat:

Higher Education crucial to meeting the MDGs - Sharma

• “It is where the real skills and real motors for development are born”

Commonwealth Health Ministers to discuss MDGs

• Annual meeting in Geneva will focus on progress, challenges and opportunities of the Millennium Development Goals
  

Media should accommodate all voices of the people

• ‘We believe that every individual and every nation has an equal right to its place in the sun’ – Commonwealth Secretary-General

Kenya looks to improve electricity supply in rural communities

• Public institutions such as schools and health centres are priority areas of focus

Commonwealth conference in Mauritius to focus on IT services

• Meeting aims to promote trade in professional services as a way creating alternative and additional sources of employment, incomes and livelihood

Commonwealth documents from 1979 released to the public

• Women’s affairs, Thatcher and opposition to apartheid covered

Commonwealth pushes for Philanthropy ambassador in every member country

• UK’s ambassador meets with Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General

News from Commonwealth organisations:

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association pledges togetherness, media freedom

• “Broadcasters have a crucial role to play in our society in ensuring that they fight poverty, promote participative democracy and the developmental state” - South African minister of communications

  Features

  - In the dock: Swaziland aims to help vulnerable witnesses feel safer in court

  - Girls and boys to be separated at school amid single-sex push in Trinidad and Tobago

  - Profile: High-flying Tobago councillor lauds youth development diploma

  - Country report: Spotlight on The Gambia

  - Expert analysis: A quiet revolution in Africa

  (Featured in Commonwealth News 482)

Editorial guidelines updated for broadcast journalists

• Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s guidelines are available online 

Commonwealth Games wrestling arena inaugurated

• A 6,000-seater newly-constructed wrestling stadium has been opened in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, taking place in New Delhi, India, this October.

Rwanda to host Commonwealth Investment Conference

• Forum will be organised by the Commonwealth Business Council in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board

Ghana to host international telecommunication union fora

• International Telecommunication Union Forum is taking place this month, while the Connecting Rural Communities Forum will be held in August