Archive » Tag: Women Peace and Security Network-Canada
It’s time for a Women, Peace and Security Ambassador for Canada
September 17, 2018
In the lead up to the UN International Day of Peace on 21 September, it is timely to consider a Private Member’s Motion now before Parliament, that might just gain enough traction for the Justin Trudeau government to take note. Introduced in February 2018 by MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the key paragraph of Motion 163 reads: [R]eaffirm Canada’s commitment to build […]
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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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