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‘Ambitious’ feminist aid targets potential victim of Liberal ‘gender washing,’ says report
'If Canada actually achieves these targets smoothly, we should seriously question that,' says researcher Aniket Bhushan.
We see a tremendous degree of value in working with companies to inform and support improvements in their practices.
The Trudeau government is stealthily trying to water down the already weak Official Development Assistance Accountability Act rather than strengthen it.
Bill Schaper, director of public policy at Imagine Canada, said his group organized a lobbying blitz to push for sweeping reforms that would modernize regulations governing the charitable sector.
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The proposed changes are tucked into the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill, and they may not be ‘benign,’ says Liberal MP John McKay.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched a crowdsourcing campaign, seeking contributions from Pakistanis at home and abroad in order to get the Diamer-Bhasha Dam started. The renewed ban on Indian TV and film is really a way of getting the Pakistani public’s attention for this campaign.
From feminist policy to trade to the Latvian mission, Melita Gabrič says the countries are already good partners that can do more together.
I am afraid that we Canadians have already turned a blind eye to a brewing humanitarian disaster in our own backyard.
Turkey is today hosting almost four million refugees from Syria and Iraq, and is the largest refugee-hosting country in the world.
Canada is well aware that our own Indigenous communities still have unequal access to services related to sexual and reproductive health and basic health infrastructure.
A right-wing anti-immigration party has the potential to be the kingmaker in a hung Parliament after last month’s election.The feds should boost support for women’s empowerment if they want to meet their Feminist International Assistance Policy targets.
Without action, deaths from tuberculosis could cost $1-trillion globally by 2033.
Insiders and observers weigh in on who impacts Canada’s decisions on diplomacy, trade, defence, development, and immigration.
The challenge is great in a country devastated by a decade of civil war and an Ebola outbreak in 2014. 
After a 15-year decline in the number of undernourished people from 2000 to 2015, there was a spike in 2016 to 815 million, largely because of conflict and climate-related shocks.
There was a 30 per cent rise in the number of aid workers killed in 2017 compared to 2016. In this week of World Humanitarian Day, let’s remember that civilians in conflict zones should never be a target. 
The late UN secretary general failed on Rwanda and Srebrenica, though he made strides in other areas, like UN reform.
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