Archive » Tag: International Humanitarian Law
Civil society coalition calls on Canada to stop all arms transfers to Israel
September 8, 2024
ENDING ALL CANADIAN ARMS TRANSFERS TO ISRAEL [All States] are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. – ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 August 2024 at paragraph 279. On 3 September 2024, a coalition of leading Canadian civil society […]
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Canada: uphold international law and support an immediate ceasefire and full humanitarian access to Gaza
November 9, 2023
Canada’s duty under international humanitarian law is clear. Our government needs to urgently work for an immediate ceasefire, full humanitarian access to Gaza, a halt to any further arms exports to Israel and the release of all hostages.
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Nuclear flashpoints, Palestinian suffering, Venezuelan meddling and more
March 4, 2019
In a week packed with international flashpoints, our CF Roundup looks at important developments on the Korean peninsula, the sub-continent, in Israel-Palestine and in Venezuela. Collapse of Trump–Kim Summit in Hanoi The much-ballyhooed Hanoi Summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un ended prematurely and in seeming disarray at noon on 28 February, […]
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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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