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Nominations open for the 2022 Commonwealth Youth Awards
The process is now open to make nominations for the 2022 Commonwealth Youth Awards, which offer successful candidates international recognition and cash prizes. The aim of the awards is to celebrate the outstanding contributions by young people delivering development and progress in Commonwealth countries and communities towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Event: Financing Recovery and Achieving Debt Sustainability in a Post Pandemic Period
A two-day virtual panel discussion on Public Debt Management in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for Commonwealth Countries.
Commonwealth Observers in position as Zambians head to the polls
Voters got up early in Zambia this morning and headed straight to the polls, which opened at 6am. Long but COVID-safe queues formed outside polling stations in Lusaka, with people standing a metre apart.
Statement by Commonwealth Secretary-General on the latest IPCC climate report
Statement by The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today
New Global Youth Development Index shows improvement in the state of young people
The 2020 Global Youth Development Index reveals that the conditions of young people have improved around the world by 3.1 per cent between 2010 and 2018, but the progress remains slow.
Commonwealth Observer Group begins its work in run-up to Zambia elections
The Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) has arrived in Lusaka, Zambia, in preparation for the August 12 general elections.
Statement by Commonwealth Secretary-General condemning the assault on the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines
I strongly condemn the violent assault which took place yesterday, 5 August 2021 on the duly elected Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon Ralph Gonsalves, during a protest in the capital Kingstown.
Zambia elections: Commonwealth observer group to be headed by former President of Tanzania
Former President of Tanzania, HE Dr Jakaya Kikwete, will lead a group of eminent persons from across the Commonwealth to observe Zambia’s general elections scheduled for 12 August.
Opinion: We cannot sleepwalk into a learning crisis
Covid-19 has been an earthquake along the already fraught fault lines of global education. The result has been a deep chasm into which the most vulnerable have fallen: 1.6 billion children were out of education at the height of school closures.
The 'will of the people' reflected in Saint Lucia Election result says Commonwealth Observer Group
The Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) deployed to Saint Lucia has released an interim statement saying the results of the 2021 General Election ‘conclusively reflect the will of the people.’