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Canada has an Opportunity to be the Voice of Reason on Syria
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- January 6, 2017
“‘Does this road lead to Aleppo?’ Your answer can be ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Your opinion doesn’t make it so. Consult a map before you go!” The question in this poem was first posed by the 13th-century Persian poet, Rumi. If we were to ask a similar question about Aleppo today, we might phrase it like
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Women in Politics, Part 2: Moving Forward — Supporting Gender-Inclusive Political Participation
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- December 15, 2016
By Althea-Maria Rivas and Gabrielle Bardall Supporting women’s public participation and political inclusion should be a critical objective of Canada’s contribution to international democracy assistance, particularly in light of the current government’s emphasis on feminism. We must prioritize gender equality across all political support programs and increase the number of projects in this field. Political
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Women in Politics, Part 1: Women, Inclusive Political Participation, and Canadian International Development Policy
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- December 15, 2016
By Althea-Maria Rivas and Gabrielle Bardall The Canadian government’s review of the International Development Assistance policy and funding framework is noteworthy in its ambition to promote feminism by applying “a feminist lens … to all of Canada’s international assistance activities.” Committed feminists in our respective fields of international relations and comparative democratization, we were encouraged
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Syrian Refugees and Canada’s “Defining Moment”: One Year On
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- December 7, 2016
By Elke Winter, Benjamin Zyla, Charlotte Murret-Labarthe University of Ottawa Origins of the crisis In March 2011, three months after the Arab Spring began in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, fifteen Syrian schoolchildren were arrested and tortured for writing on a wall the anti-regime slogan: “The people want the overthrow of the regime.” This event sparked
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