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15 months on, Canada still has not pledged actual troops for an actual UN peace operation
November 21, 2017
Our previous blog post featured a new publication from ten experts discussing What Canada Has Done And Should Be Doing For UN Peace Operations (WFM-Canada, John Trent, editor, November 2017). This week we focus on the results of the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial hosted by Canada in Vancouver on 14-15 November. Sadly Canada failed to deliver on its long overdue commitment to […]
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New publication on Canada and UN peacekeeping
November 16, 2017
With the United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conference having taken place in Vancouver earlier this week, the World Federalist Movement Canada has released the 2017 edition of “The United Nations and Canada: What Canada has done and should be doing for UN peace operations”, a collection of ten articles by civil society experts on the state of Canada’s involvement with international […]
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Major amendments needed to Canada’s Arms Trade Treaty legislation
October 30, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: DEEPLY FLAWED ARMS TRADE BILL MUST BE AMENDED TO STOP CANADIAN WEAPONS FALLING INTO HANDS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS GROUPS WARN Bill C-47 IS INCOMPLETE AND DOES NOT COVER THE MAJORITY OF CANADIAN ARMS EXPORTS Canada’s welcome commitment to accede to the global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) risks being fundamentally undermined by troubling shortcomings […]
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Civil society conference offers practical way forward on nuclear disarmament
October 3, 2017
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. — General Omar Bradley, 1948. From Friday, September 22nd to Saturday, September 23rd, this year’s Group of 78 Annual Policy […]
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