Muslim vote: Political chat ahead of the election 10 December, 2019 | BBC Stories
Interview on BBC Asian Network on foreign policy
With one hand, our government gives, and the other, it takes. The Liberal Democrats’ manifesto calls for a presumption of denial of arms exports to human rights priority countries; British arms sales to Saudi Arabia contributed to the killing of 85,000 Yemeni children & endangerment of 12.3M. Just aired on BBC Asian Network trying to…
What have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain?
By Imaduddin Ahmed | Tue 26th November 2019 – 8:35 am What besides leading the campaign against Brexit have the Lib Dems ever done for Britain? John Stuart Mill, a Liberal MP, was the second of his House to call for women’s suffrage, in 1832. He also warned against tyranny of the majority against minority groups, and…
The Continuing Story of Brexit
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…
