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A Do and Don’t List for the UN’s New Human Rights High Commissioner
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- 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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Media Bias Frames Western Reporting on Ukraine
- Analysis
- June 5, 2014
In a 1991 article published in the Journal of Communications, Robert Entman of the George Washington University examined how the American media framed international news. He compared coverage of two similar events: the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007 by the Soviet military in 1983, and the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655
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Harper’s Heroic Ukraine Message Does Not Reflect Reality
- Analysis
- June 3, 2014
Published in the Globe and Mail, June 3, 2014 As Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Europe for the G7 summit and anniversary of D-Day, the gap between Canada’s outspoken rhetoric and its diminishing capabilities in international affairs is clearer than ever. Much of the trip will focus on Russia’s destabilizing actions in Ukraine. First,
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Nine New Takes on Canada’s International Future
- Analysis
- June 2, 2014
On May 23-24, CIPS and the Canadian International Council (CIC) co-hosted the Ottawa Forum, which brought together a remarkable array of presenters, commenters and attendees to the University of Ottawa to discuss the future of Canada’s international policy. The conference was emphatically forward-looking, covering a range of topics from international commerce, innovation and cities to
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