Archive » Tag: Rule of Law
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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Take action now to ensure justice is done for Afghan detainees
January 24, 2017
This blog post is to remind readers of a very important parliamentary petition, Petition e-608 (Access to Information), which has just surpassed the 500 signatures required to trigger a formal, written, and public response by the government. This petition is an attempt to stop the government from censoring documents sent to an important review body, […]
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Afghanistan Faces Serious Challenges
July 15, 2016
A recent blog post entitled: Future Development Challenges? Afghanistan Remains at the Top of the List, (CIPS, 7 July 2016) by Nipa Banerjee, visiting professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Senior Advisor at the Rideau Institute, disputes the claim made in Maclean’s magazine that the Afghan people […]
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