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When More is Less: The Commonwealth and Human Rights
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- October 28, 2011
The Prime Minister arrives today in Perth, Australia, for the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), straight into a debate over human rights. Some Commonwealth members want the organisation to take a much stronger stand when other members breach fundamental human rights and democratic principles. Others do not. Prime Minister Harper’s statement that he
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Is There a Problem in Canada-U.S. Relations?
- Analysis
- October 26, 2011
This post first appeared on the CIC’s Roundtable blog at opencanada.org. When they met in Washington last February, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama announced a “new long-term partnership” between Canada and the U.S., which would “accelerate the legitimate flows of people and goods between both countries, while strengthening security and economic competitiveness.”
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‘Conflict Minerals’, Canada and African Civil Wars
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- October 26, 2011
The global campaign against so-called ‘conflict minerals’ is gathering pace, with Canada playing a central role.The campaign is primarily focused on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), from where reports about ‘rape’ or ‘blood’ cellphones’ have fueled our collective guilt, so much so that the names of previously obscure minerals such as coltan and
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A Victory for the Responsibility to Protect
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- October 25, 2011
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock Published in the Ottawa Citizen, October 25, 2011 In a fortuitous coincidence, last week’s liberation of Libya occurred exactly a decade after the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle was proposed by the Canadian-initiated International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). The successful UN mission in Libya was a
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