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24th January 2012 Chevening, UK

London is proactive! And best of all, it makes you proactive!

Our new Chevening Conversations blog is by Lebanese Chevening Scholar Leena Ksaifi. Leena is studying for an MSC in Violence, Conflict and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies. When you first arrive in London, everything is jaw dropping.  Double-decker buses, shiny lights and flashy signs, bikers cycling, pedestrian buttons you press when you want […]

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10th December 2010 Chevening, UK

Human Rights Day 2010 – a view from Nigeria

My name is Francis Moneke, Chevening Scholar 2010. I have an LLM in International Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London. As we celebrate this year’s international human rights day, I wish to call the attention of the international community to the massive economic discrimination going on in Nigeria. Increasingly, the poor and the […]

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