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Commonwealth News - Issue 440 | 27 May 2009 Full text version
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Teachers will urge commitment to education in face of global recession
Commonwealth Teachers’ Forum set to become permanent fixture at triennial education ministers’ conference
Commonwealth observers issue interim statement on Malawi elections
A peaceful election day and a well-managed voting process, but some key benchmarks for democratic elections not met - says chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group
Commonwealth health ministers’ message to heads of government
Commonwealth ministers of health held their annual meeting on 17 May 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, on the eve of the 62nd World Health Assembly
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Around the Commonwealth: Bones uncovered from WWI grave
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is recovering the bodies of dead Australian and British soldiers from a long lost mass grave in north-eastern France
Profile: Dr Isabella Bovolo, hydrologist
Scientist on a quest to unlock the secrets of the rainforest
From the Archive: 1979, Kiribati joins the Commonwealth
Celebrating three decades of Kiribati’s independent membership of the Commonwealth

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Reports by Will Henley

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