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Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group
Several
Eminent Persons Groups
,
abbreviated
to
EPG
, have been founded by
Commonwealth of Nations
.
An EPG was
established
at the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1985
to
investigate
apartheid
in
South Africa
, and
reported
ahead of the special
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1986
. They recommended
economic sanctions
against South Africa.
The latest was founded by the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009
at
Trinidad and Tobago
in
November 2009
to report at the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011
. The members of this EPG were:
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Patricia Francis
Asma Jahangir
Samuel Kavuma
Michael Kirby
Graça Machel
Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Sir Ronald Sanders
Hugh Segal
Sir Ieremia Tabai