Archive » Tag: Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman
Our common global humanity is on the line.
December 21, 2018
(Photo credit: Ceasefire.ca) We increasingly confront a world where greed, coercion and bribery trumps human rights and our common global humanity. Our Foreign Minister has talked passionately about the USA abandonment of its leadership role in championing the “rules based international order”. Yet the real threat is not American isolationism, but the Trump administration’s relentless […]
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Law reform needed to ensure Canada meets global arms trade standards
December 4, 2018
Status Report on Bill C-47 For all those of you following the passage of Bill C-47, the legislation to permit Canada to join the Arms Trade Treaty, we are pleased to attach the updated Civil Society Brief presented to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and International Trade on 21 November 2018. “The government of Canada […]
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Trudeau plays cynical waiting game while children die in Yemen
November 20, 2018
In February 2018 Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland addressed the Human Rights Council in Geneva. She stated: Few issues are as important as those that relate to human rights and freedoms…. We are also in a time in which international humanitarian law has been dangerously challenged. Civilians are being slaughtered and have been the targets of ongoing attacks in […]
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Let’s make it clear to Saudi Arabia that bullying will not work
August 14, 2018
The RideauInstitute.ca is on a short summer break, back next Friday 24 August. However, in the meantime, why not show your support to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for standing up to the Saudi Arabian bully boy, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, by sending an email to: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at: pm@pm.gc.ca Foreign Minister Chrystia […]
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