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News Archive

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Amartya Sen launches publication on causes of conflict
Released:  28 June 2011
“The engagement through which we unite very often takes place through not emphasising where we differ but where we agree” – Sen

Caribbean youth profit from training in financial management
Released:  27 June 2011
"If I don't have the cash I ain’t gonna splash" – workshop trains youth leaders in money management

Commonwealth, La Francophonie seek to provide input to the G20 agenda
Released:  24 June 2011
The two organisations to focus on promoting growth with resilience, ensuring financial inclusion, and promoting effective participation of world’s poor countries in global trade at joint meeting

Caribbean leaders ask Commonwealth for debt relief
Released:  21 June 2011
"We need to turn a new page that promotes relief for small middle-income countries" - Commonwealth Secretary-General

Investing in youth employment is good for banks and good for the Caribbean
Released:  17 June 2011
"Entire societies will go bankrupt if we do not invest in youth employment" - Commonwealth Secretary-General tells Caribbean bankers.

Africa traversing a defining period for development
Released:  15 June 2011
“There is an emerging dynamism on the African continent. Purposefulness and energy are the new face of Africa” - Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Ransford Smith

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen to address London meeting on women’s rights
Released:  14 June 2011
Speakers include Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Foreign Minister, and Baroness Verma, Department for International Development’s Spokesperson in the House of Lords

Commonwealth project looks into industrial potential of natural fibres
Released:  13 June 2011
“Entrepreneurs can use local fibre resources and fulfil local needs without imposing impossible demands on local community”

Commonwealth Secretary-General visits Caribbean
Released:  9 June 2011
Youth employment and financial resilience to top agenda of visit

Commonwealth convenes workshop to boost services exports in Africa
Released:  1 June 2011
Trade in services is increasingly becoming an option for diversifying the economies of many countries to create jobs and improve livelihoods