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While applauding Canadian ATT accession, civil society looks for action to curb our Saudi arms exports

June 24, 2019

We welcome Canada’s long overdue accession to the global Arms Trade Treaty. But it will only be meaningful if it is accompanied by concrete action to end our complicity in the suffering of innocent Yemeni civilians by suspending the export of Canadian-made LAVs to Saudi Arabia.

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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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