Journalists may wish to attend this event hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies:

Here follows the prologue to the revealing new book, ‘Catastrophe: what went wrong in Zimbabwe?’,  by CJA member Richard Bourne, published by Zed Books (London).
More information here.

On 21 February 1924, Robert Gabriel Mugabe …

By Mahendra Ved, a senior journalist based in Delhi and chair of the CJA-India branch
Mr. Justice Markandey Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, has decided to send fact-finding teams …

By Trevor Grundy, member, CJA-UK

TEN YEARS after the end of a war which left Sierra Leone, a once-promising West African country, economically bankrupt and morally drained, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, aka Tony Blair, stays on as …

CJA member Richard Bourne, formerly head and founder of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit think-tank (now Commonwealth Advisory Bureau), has written this excellent new book charting the decline of Zimbabwe. It comes highly recommended. Here’s …

The Commonwealth Journalists Association’s ninth conference, in Malta between 29 January and 2 February 2012, saw CJA-UK chair and ex-BBC Asia chief Rita Payne elected international president. The four day rally, which was attended by around …

The exhibition: The Z Factor
Date: 23 May 2012
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle St, London E1
Thirty years ago,  Zerbanoo Gifford became the first Asian woman to be an elected representative in …

By Trevor Grundy, 
CJA-UK member

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has warned that Nigeria is under the threat of ‘disintegration’ at the hands of one of the world’s most extreme Islamist terror …

DON’T TURN BACK CLOCK ON JOURNALISTS’ RIGHTS, CJA URGES MALDIVES
The Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) urges the new authorities in the Maldives to respect the right of journalists in that country to go about their work …

By Rita Payne

 The political story in the Maldives has come full circle.
 There was jubilation inside and outside the country in 2008 when Mohamed Nasheed was elected president in the Maldives’ first multi-party elections ending the …