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Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit: What’s Still Missing?
- Analysis
- June 11, 2014
By Rieky Stuart and Stephen Brown Published on the McLeod Group Blog, June 10, 2014 The Canadian government’s recent Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Summit in Toronto has not lacked for cheerleaders, especially NGOs receiving funding under the MNCH initiative. Prior to the summit, only a few critical voices were cited in the media
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Is Afghanistan Set to Elect a Truly National President?
- Analysis
- June 11, 2014
Afghanistan is getting ready to go to a second round of polls on June 14. The fairly peaceful first round (despite some irregularities and scattered violence in the outlying provinces) symbolized Afghans’ interest in supporting a democratic process to elect a leader for security building, peace and development. While 60% of Afghans cast their votes
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Policy Experts Submit Report to NATO Secretary General
- Analysis
- June 10, 2014
In March 2014, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, appointed ten independent policy experts to a panel and asked them to provide advice on the future of the transatlantic bond. The panel included a Canadian: CIPS Director Roland Paris. On June 10, the group presented its report to Secretary-General Rasmussen
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A Do and Don’t List for the UN’s New Human Rights High Commissioner
- Analysis
- June 9, 2014
Published on openDemocracy.net on June 7, 2014 The Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein (“Prince Zeid”), has just been nominated as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The outgoing High Commissioner – Navi Pillay of South Africa – served for six years. The High Commissioner
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