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Commonwealth News - Issue 438 | 13 May 2009 Full text version | Events
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Three small island states make submission for 600,000 square kilometres of seabed
Commonwealth assists Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia
Three ways to save the world
Sharma outlines the Commonwealth’s contribution to protecting “our values, the vulnerable, and our variety’
Where are we a year in to the universal review of human rights?
New publication draws together experiences from across the Commonwealth
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Around the Commonwealth
The Built Environment Professionals in the Commonwealth (BEPIC) recently organised a forum in London ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago this November
From the Archive: Gold Coast, May 1956
First steps on the road to Ghanaian independence in the Commonwealth

UPCOMING EVENT
Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting 2009
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 17 May 2009
This year’s Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting provides an opportunity to bring Commonwealth Health Ministers and senior officials together to explore the risks to human health posed by climate change in the Commonwealth, and the effective policy responses for managing these risks. This will be achieved both by inviting expert speakers and by facilitating the exchange of experiences and expertise between attending Commonwealth Health Ministers and their delegations.

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Image: Fishermen at Arungu Fishing Festival in northern Nigeria
Credit: Pius Ekpei

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