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Caroline Riseboro

Caroline Riseboro is president & CEO of Plan International Canada.

Without action, we will lose an entire generation of girls

  • This June, when it hosts the G7 summit, Canada will have five broad issues for the agenda, as set by the prime minister. One
Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2018
Students learn in temporary classrooms for displaced youth at a UN camp in South Sudan in July 2016. UN photograph by Isaac Billy

Without action, we will lose an entire generation of girls

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2018
  • This June, when it hosts the G7 summit, Canada will have five broad issues for the agenda, as set by the prime minister. One

Without action, we will lose an entire generation of girls

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2018
  • This June, when it hosts the G7 summit, Canada will have five broad issues for the agenda, as set by the prime minister. One
Students learn in temporary classrooms for displaced youth at a UN camp in South Sudan in July 2016. UN photograph by Isaac Billy

What everyone’s afraid to say: we can’t achieve the Global Goals

  • There is something that everyone is afraid to say: the Global Goals cannot be achieved. At least, not unless major changes are made in
Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | October 5, 2016
A girl plays with a basketball in Gao, Mali, in 2014. Adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable people on the planet, writes Caroline Riseboro. UN photograph by Marco Dormino

What everyone’s afraid to say: we can’t achieve the Global Goals

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | October 5, 2016
  • There is something that everyone is afraid to say: the Global Goals cannot be achieved. At least, not unless major changes are made in

What everyone’s afraid to say: we can’t achieve the Global Goals

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | October 5, 2016
  • There is something that everyone is afraid to say: the Global Goals cannot be achieved. At least, not unless major changes are made in
A girl plays with a basketball in Gao, Mali, in 2014. Adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable people on the planet, writes Caroline Riseboro. UN photograph by Marco Dormino

Time to take the high road for humanity

  • TORONTO—Médecins Sans Frontières’ recent decision to pull out of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) has certainly garnered much public attention. The agency pulled away
Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | May 30, 2016
In advance of the Summit, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pictured at the World Economic Forum in 2009, has tabled a highly ambitious vision for change, within its Agenda for Humanity. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Time to take the high road for humanity

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | May 30, 2016
  • TORONTO—Médecins Sans Frontières’ recent decision to pull out of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) has certainly garnered much public attention. The agency pulled away

Time to take the high road for humanity

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | May 30, 2016
  • TORONTO—Médecins Sans Frontières’ recent decision to pull out of the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) has certainly garnered much public attention. The agency pulled away
In advance of the Summit, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, pictured at the World Economic Forum in 2009, has tabled a highly ambitious vision for change, within its Agenda for Humanity. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

The stage is set, let’s talk about sex

  • The Commission on the Status of Women’s #CSW60 Summit took place in New York two weeks ago and Canada is clearly back on the global
Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2016
In her UN address on March 15, International Development Minister Marie Claude Bibeau spoke about the importance of enabling women and girls to 'live their lives with dignity, free of coercion, discrimination and violence,' and recognizing that this is not achievable without providing not only education to adolescent girls, but also, vitally, access to contraceptives. Photograph courtesy of Parliament of Canada

The stage is set, let’s talk about sex

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2016
  • The Commission on the Status of Women’s #CSW60 Summit took place in New York two weeks ago and Canada is clearly back on the global

The stage is set, let’s talk about sex

Opinion | BY CAROLINE RISEBORO | March 28, 2016
  • The Commission on the Status of Women’s #CSW60 Summit took place in New York two weeks ago and Canada is clearly back on the global
In her UN address on March 15, International Development Minister Marie Claude Bibeau spoke about the importance of enabling women and girls to 'live their lives with dignity, free of coercion, discrimination and violence,' and recognizing that this is not achievable without providing not only education to adolescent girls, but also, vitally, access to contraceptives. Photograph courtesy of Parliament of Canada
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