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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
- Report
- 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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Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?
- Analysis
- December 6, 2016
In the early 2000s, Western donors finally recognized that they were partly to blame for foreign aid’s often disappointing results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in 2005, was the result of that soul-searching. The Declaration was based on five core principles, including recipient countries’ ownership of their poverty reduction strategies, donors’ alignment with
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Gender and Peacebuilding: Trudeau Can Do More to Support Gender Rights in Africa
- Analysis
- December 1, 2016
By Dr. Annie Bunting With the Canadian government about to confirm the deployment of peacekeepers to Africa (likely to Mali), and Prime Minister Trudeau’s recent visit to Liberia and address to the Francophonie on the centrality of the rights of women and girls, it is important to reflect critically on both these agendas in tandem.
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