
“Let’s hope that in Ecuador, they’ll soon be shouting ‘Presidenta with an ‘A’! This enthusiastic endorsement, given by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to another prominent female politician, Ecuadoran presidential candidate Luisa González credited at the time with a 50\50 chance of being elected, was the focus of much media attention during the recent Ecuadoran presidential
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A new Canadian Government is assuming power at a time of great upheaval in international affairs. Norms of non-aggression, cooperative security and strategic restraint are being undermined. Regrettably, some of this disruption originates with our American ally with whom, as the Prime Minister has said, we will need to forge a new security relationship. In
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On April 3rd, 2025, uOttawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies, Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) and the Canadian Council for Refugees hosted a panel discussion for Refugee Rights Day, with Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije, Aditya Rao and Diana Gallego. The speakers focused on protecting the right to asylum from legal, policy, programming and
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By Stephen Baranyi, Jody-Ann Anderson, Safo Musta & Nancy Saint Louis The election of a new Canadian federal government, in a context of increasing tensions with the United States and other large powers, has sparked debates about the future of the Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) Ottawa adopted in 2017. Those debates are informed by
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