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The Canadian Section of the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group shall promote exchanges between Japanese and Canadian Parliamentarians, propose initiatives likely to lead to a better mutual understanding of bilateral and multilateral problems and work to develop co-operation between the two countries in all the fields of human activity.

The session featured presentations by Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary General of the IPU; Ms. Anita Bhatia, UN Women; Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women Committee; and Ms. Carmen Alanis, Former Chief Justice of Mexico.

It is a daunting experience to follow Dr. Hovelsrud from Norway and Mr. Nakkalajarri from Finland, in connection with adaptation to climate change. It is doubly daunting because I am here pinch-hitting for Bob Mills, whom we all know, and who is the victim of the uncertainty as part of Canada’s minority government with the prospect that the government may be falling at any time, provoking a ...

She focused her remarks on examples from the Arab region and explained the various forms of national machineries that countries have adopted, including specialized government departments mandated to address women’s issues and gender equality, gender commissions, and women’s councils.

The first ballot put Nicolas Sarkozy in the lead with 31.1% to Ségolène Royal’s 25.8%, a result not nearly as close as several polls had predicted. Polls taken prior to the second round suggested that Sarkozy would win on May 6 with approximately 54% of the vote. The key was François Bayrou, a centrist chosen by 18.5% of voters, whom both candidates wooed relentlessly. The far-right ...

The CPA’s international executive committee (EXCO) meets twice a year, in the spring and just before the annual meeting. The CPA’s constitution authorizes it to control and manage the activities and business of the association. The international executive committee has about 35 members and is led by the chairperson of the CPA. The committee is made up of the officers of the CPA and three ...

The Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group aims to find points of convergence in respective national policies, to initiate dialogue on points of divergence, to encourage the exchange of information, and to promote better understanding among legislators on shared issues of concern. In addition to regular meetings with their federal counterparts, in recent years, members of the Canadian ...

In the Charter for European Security, adopted at the November 1999 Istanbul Summit, the heads of state and of government of the participating countries agreed to “address the human, economic, political and military dimensions of security as an integral whole.”([3]) All forms of peaceful cooperation between the participating countries are ...

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Mr. Uranga concluded by stating that the convergence of transnational crimes that trigger other criminal tendencies such as Femicide, trafficking of women and forced disappearance or sexual slavery, sadly persist as forms of violence against women and should force countries to rethink approaches to addressing these phenomena.