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Going Along to Get Along: John Baird’s Mideast Tour
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- April 5, 2013
Foreign Minister Baird’s seven-country, ten-day tour of the Middle East provides final confirmation that his much vaunted “principled” foreign policy committed to promoting “freedom, human rights, democracy and the rule of law” is little more than empty rhetoric. So far, the Foreign Minister has visited four Arab regimes (Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Baird’s Silence on Abuses in Bahrain Exposes Canada’s Inconsistency
- Analysis
- April 5, 2013
Published in the Globe and Mail, April 5, 2013 The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper prides itself on having a “principled” foreign policy and for taking “clear positions” in the defence of human rights. Why, then, did Foreign Minister John Baird barely utter a peep in public about Bahrain’s terrible human rights record when
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Learning the Tricks of the Trade: Canada in South Sudan
- Analysis
- April 4, 2013
By guest-bloggers Jennifer Erin Salahub, Senior Researcher and Team Leader at the North-South Institute, and Margaret Capelazo, Gender Advisor at CARE Canada. As part of the global aid effectiveness agenda, the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States reflects the fact that solutions to violence and fragility are more likely to be sustainable when
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Will it be a ‘New Deal’ or a ‘Raw Deal’ for FCAS?
- Analysis
- April 3, 2013
By guest-blogger Julia Sanchez, President-CEO of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation, the national platform for Canadian civil society organizations working on international development. Based purely on need, enhancing our focus (and resources) on fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) is not a hard case to make. As the World Development Report 2011 reminded us,
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