February, 10, 2012
| November 23, 2011 Next week, two heads of state, ministers from over 100 countries, the leaders of more than 40 international organizations, and over 2,000 individuals will gather in Busan, South Korea, for the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. | |
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| November 23, 2011 Busan, South Korea next week will host a ministerial mega-conference on the aid game, embracing new and old donors, recipient governments and hundreds of civil society organizations. This event, the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, builds upon the second high-level forum's Paris Declaration, centred on enhancing (recipient) ownership and partnership. | |
| November 23, 2011 Canada should leverage its Arab League links to pressure Russia and China on Syria.
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| November 23, 2011 Post-Arab Spring, it needs health services, education providers—not mega malls.
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| November 23, 2011 The life of 26-year-old Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil—one of the first political prisoners of the post-Mubarak era—is hanging by a thread as he completes the third month of an on-going hunger strike. | |
| November 16, 2011 For years, this newspaper has watched as one pundit and politician after another lined up to opine on why the Harper government was refusing to sign on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks. | |
| November 16, 2011 The United Nations Security Council recently voted to end the NATO mandate in Libya under Resolution 1973. | |
| November 16, 2011 In last week's Embassy, professor Rita Abrahamsen authored an article, "Stopping 'blood cellphones': A too-easy fix." She said that the idea of ending conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo by curbing the trade in conflict minerals is "seductive—and dangerously simplistic." The article was misleading on several important points. | |
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