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International relations, peace and conflict
Canadian soldiers discuss a civil-military co-operation project with school leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 2013.
“Why did you take my independence from me? Why did I give it up? I'm a slave now, for all my fine clothes.”
OTTAWA – A new report, entitled Canadians Abroad: A Policy and Legislative Agenda, has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The report, by former Ambassador and long-time head of the Canadian consular service Gar Pardy, analyses fourteen major issues associated with the provision of consular assistance to Canadians traveling and residing abroad.
This study, by former Ambassador and long-time head of the Canadian consular service Gar Pardy, analyses fourteen major issues associated with the provision of consular assistance to Canadians traveling and residing abroad. It includes a detailed set of recommendations to improve the assistance Canada provides to such travellers and the international legal environment for consular services.
Protesters of Planet Syria wearing masks depicting (from left) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US President Barack Obama, Syrian President Bashar Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon serve a siege soup on the start of Syrian Peace talks in Geneva. Photo credit: EPA / Martial Trezzini
While Canada has provided key leadership and significant military contributions to global peace operations for a half-century, it has only deployed very low levels of personnel in UN peacekeeping over the past ten years. This study indicates that Canada is currently far behind other nations in its readiness to support the United Nations and train for modern peacekeeping—and finds that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) now provides less than a quarter of the peacekeeping training activities that it did a decade ago. The study recommends
OTTAWA— A new report, entitled Unprepared for Peace? The Decline of Canadian Peacekeeping Training (and what to do about it), has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
OTTAWA — Les Forces armées canadiennes (FAC) doivent envisager une refonte en profondeur et une mise à jour urgente de la formation et des exercices au maintien de la paix, afin de rétablir la préparation du Canada aux opérations de maintien de la paix de l’ONU.
This report discusses Canada’s shortcomings and violations of international law relating to its transfer of hundreds of Afghan detainees to Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), most frequently the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan’s intelligence service, despite substantial risks that they would be subjected to torture.
OTTAWA— A new report, entitled Torture of Afghan Detainees: Canada’s Alleged Complicity and the Need for a Public Inquiry, has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).