The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, will embark on official visits to Samoa and the Kingdom of Tonga from 25 March 2024. In both countries, she will discuss issues of importance to the Commonwealth and the Pacific region with the heads of government,
Ministers and senior officials from the Commonwealth Caribbean have endorsed a new set of measures to improve people’s access to justice. The measures resulted from four-day deliberations among Commonwealth law ministers at their biennial meeting in Zanzibar, Tanzania, this week. They were also guided by input from
Release - The Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, has become the first Black woman as well as the first Caribbean, Dominican and British person to receive the University of California (UC) Berkeley’s prestigious Global Leadership Award in recognition
Former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki will lead a Commonwealth election observation team to Nigeria, which will hold Africa's largest democratic exercise on February 25. Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission invited Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland KC to form the Commonwealth Observer Group. In January 2023, 176,846
Chief Hamusonde has conferred Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland with a status of Subbuku (Head Woman) in his chiefdom. Speaking through a representative, Gift Monde, at the 2022 Lwiindi-Lwanza traditional ceremony, Hamusonde said that the recognition is for Scotland's contribution to saving the lives in his chiefdom. He
In an unprecedented move, Jamaica has formally announced a candidate for the next secretary-general of the Commonwealth. Jamaica's foreign minister, Kamina Johnson-Smith, is challenging the incumbent secretary-general, Patricia Scotland, for the post. This comes after Jamaica brazenly declared its intentions to quit the Commonwealth or removing the
