Interviews with Trialeti TV & Through the News Oct 22, 2019 | Irina | Through the News “Trick or treat?” might be the classic Halloween question but on October 31, 2019 the festivities are expected to take a different turn at least in one place in the world – in the United Kingdom the big…
What the Lib Dems have done for Britain
Presented on 22 Oct in Tbilisi
BBC: Imad Ahmed on getting domestic buy-in to preserve rainforests
Speaking at the Liberal Democrats conference, Bournemouth 2019. We’ve destroyed our forests and developed; if we want to stop others from doing the same, we need to compensate them.
On Zambia’s main news channel
5th November, 2019 on ZNBC following my keynote presentation at a public discussion programme organised by the International Growth Centre on Nurturing the Manufacturing Sector: Ensuring Strong Roots for Zambian Growth
How British liberals should advocate for the human rights of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir (800 words)
InterLib | September 2019 Imaduddin Ahmed (800 word piece in the 2019 InterLib Kashmir pages, following the articles on Kashmir by Liberal Democrat MEPs Phil Bennion and Dinesh Dhamija) The 72 year history of Kashmir since the British Raj dissolved is fraught with unconfirmable contentions and theories and riddled by complex problems. For a start,…
How British liberals should advocate for the human rights of the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir (500 words)
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Fri 30th August 2019 | Lib Dem Voice This past month, the Government of India has escalated military presence in Jammu and Kashmir, already perhaps the densest in the world, enforced curfews, a media blackout, blocked all communications and arrested Kashmiri politicians without issuing warrants under a draconian law. Reports of torture of civilians are…
The cost of power outages to Zambia’s manufacturing sector
Policy Brief 41408 International Growth Centre | June 2019 Imaduddin Ahmed, Michelle Baddeley, D’Maris Coffman, Jim Meikle and Graham Sianjase In Brief: The researchers surveyed 146 large manufacturing firms in Zambia’s industrial hubs in 2018 to assess the impacts of power outages on Zambia’s manufacturing sector, and firms’ coping mechanisms. Following the outages of 2015…
The case for changing our laws on revoking citizenship
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Mon 19th August 2019 | Lib Dem Voice When as Home Secretary Sajid Javid attempted to strip British-born Shamima Begum of her citizenship, he highlighted how the Home Office has come to possess powers to revoke citizenship that did not exist a generation earlier. These new powers are nothing short of racist, allowing…
Arms sales could cost the UK more than they earn
It is plausible that the arms trade could be a contributing factor to
the extent to which wars are waged and peacekeeping operations in which the MOD is engaged,
the extent to which refugees are created, move to the UK and then are sheltered in the UK,
the radicalisation of those who would harm Britain
Why we should legalise cannabis
Cannabis is over-policed for the relative lack of harm it does Currently, cannabis is classified as a Class B drug, meaning that possession can result in up to 5 years of imprisonment Over the last 10 years, there have been 1.58 million cases of the police forces seizing cannabis, although the number of seizures have…
