Les Nations Unies

What Canada Can Do About the Rohingya Genocide
- 1 mai 2019
By Payam Akhavan and John Packer

Twenty-five years ago, as young UN human rights officers working together in Geneva, we witnessed how the world watched and did nothing as close to a million Rwandan Tutsis were exterminated. Brimming with idealism …
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“If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”
- 12 avril 2019
The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left his village, destroyed by the Janjaweed, to find …
Par Patti Tamara Lenard
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A New Face in International Development
- 29 mars 2019
Maryam Monsef is the new face mandated to set the tone of international co-operation as Minister of International Development. Her arrival on March 1^st is the result of the crisis of integrity in the government triggered by the flow …
Par John Sinclair
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New Partnerships for Minister Monsef?
- 29 mars 2019
Since March 1, 2019, Maryam Monsef has been the new Minister of International Development, adding to her responsibilities as Minister for Women and Gender Equality. A companion blog outlines the demanding new landscape in which she must operate. The aim …
Par John Sinclair
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China and UN Peacekeeping
- 14 janvier 2019
For the last year or so, I have been researching China’s contributions to UN peacekeeping. It has been an interesting journey, culminating in a new CIPS report, 30 years of Chinese Peacekeeping, which will be launched on January 24, …
Par Christoph Zuercher
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Canada’s Security Council Campaign
- 18 décembre 2018
In a recent CIPS blog, also published in the Globe and Mail, my colleague Roland Paris outlined the reasons “Why Canada cares about that Security Council seat.” This blog wonders whether the world cares about Canada’s …
Par Daniel Livermore
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Human and Non-Human Rights — Convergence or Conflict?
- 10 décembre 2018
Today is the 70^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Most reflections on this milestone are likely to sound a sombre note, dwelling on the many challenges faced by those championing human rights in an increasingly …
Par David Petrasek
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Why Canada Should Care — a lot — about that UN Security Council seat
- 3 décembre 2018
Canada will stand for election to the United Nations Security Council in June 2020. Our competitors are Norway and Ireland. Of the three countries, two will win seats on the council and begin their two-year terms in January 2021.

There …
Par Roland Paris
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Decisive Action is Overdue to Protect the Rohingyas
- 15 septembre 2018
By John Packer

Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa and Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution

Finally, the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar has stated the obvious: the Rohingya …
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Making the United Nations Fit for Purpose in an Illiberal Era
- 15 juillet 2018
Louise Riis Andersen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies

The return of geopolitics and the rise of populism have reinforced crude and divisive distinctions between “us” and “them.” As a result, the notions of collective security and the …
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How History Helps Us Uncover the Real Successes of Middle Power Internationalism
- 15 juillet 2018
Heidi Tworek, Assistant Professor in International History, University of British Columbia, and Visiting Fellow, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University

Over 15 years ago, Barry Buzan and Richard Little lamented that international relations had long sustained “a dominant …
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Women Leaders Needed in the WTO
- 14 juin 2018
The Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment is a stepping stone on the road to advancing gender equality and the economic empowerment of women in the World Trade Organization (WTO). The best way to achieve gender equality in an …
Par Debra Steger
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