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Domestic Political Realities Will Temper Minister Joly’s Global Aspirations
- Analysis
- November 2, 2023
On Monday, October 30 and Wednesday, November 1, Foreign Affairs Minister, Mélanie Joly, gave essentially the same speech at the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto and the Conseil des relations internationales de Montréal (CORIM) in Montreal. The speech was deemed a major foreign policy pronouncement meant to set out Minister Joly’s vision for Canada’s
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The UN’s Problematic Commission on Israel-Palestine – An Event Report
- Analysis
- November 1, 2023
On October 30, CIPS hosted an event featuring members of a controversial United Nations commission. The event was co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (which I direct), the Human Rights Research and Education Centre and the International Law Group at the University of Ottawa. The commission in question was the United
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Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Nagorno-Karabagh: The Next Step
- Analysis
- October 31, 2023
In 2020, a war took place between Armenia and Azerbaijan, resulting in several thousand casualties. The 44-day war ended with an Azeri military victory over Armenia and the capture of an important part of Nagorno-Karabagh. Following a ceasefire and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers, the rest of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh remained under local
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In the Israel-Palestine War Human Rights Must Prevail
For all who say this is not the time to discuss the wider human rights context to this conflict, we say there has never been a more necessary time. If ever there was a time for a serious discussion about protecting human rights in Israel and Palestine, this is that time. Unfortunately, a clear-eyed
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