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Commonwealth Secretary-General to Pakistan: You can always count on us
Feb 17, 2012Message by Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma, visiting Islamabad, Pakistan, from 16 to 19 February, 2012. Pakistan holds a special place in the Commonwealth. It is one of the eight countries that came together in 1949 to lay the foundations of the modern Commonwealth
African symposium explores natural fibres
Feb 17, 2012Experts and delegates from 19 African countries will gather in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, from 3 to 10 March 2012 to discuss ways of boosting natural fibre production in a bid to tackle rural poverty.
Commonwealth ministers to arrive in Maldives Friday
Feb 23, 2012A Commonwealth ministerial mission is due to arrive in the Maldives capital, Malé, on 17 February to ascertain the facts surrounding the transfer of power last week in the South Asian state.
Commonwealth Asia Regional endorses need for financial inclusion of youth
Feb 14, 2012The Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Centre, organized a two-day Regional Consultation on Financial inclusion of Youth in New Delhi, with the objective to address the critical need for national financial inclusion policies having a ’youth’ focus along with other vulnerable sections of the society.
Extraordinary Teleconference of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group
Feb 14, 2012The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) held an extraordinary meeting by teleconference to consider the situation in the Republic of Maldives.
Kenya tops in drive against female ‘cut’
Feb 13, 2012The incidence of female circumcision fell by nearly 16 per cent in the country between 2003 and 2009, the United Nations Population Fund says in the report released on the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.
