Importantly, this exposes continuing decline in 🇺🇸 influence (to the delight of 🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷) & reduced concern about 🇺🇸 sanctions. Cf lessons from 🇺🇸 withdrawal from UNESCO (& recent return) or Trump's suspension of $ from World Health Organization (WHO) (filled by 🇨🇳). So, 🇺🇸 is also revealed as out of step.🤦‍♂️

Today and every day, we #BearWitness & honour the memory of Jordan River Anderson by insisting on equal access to services for Indigenous children.
#BearWitness Day #JordansPrinciple #SenCA #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

To casual observers, Rishi Sunak’s “Rwanda scheme” just sounds like a really strange and profoundly expensive way not to solve a very solvable migration problem of not very large scale

Up close, I write, it’s far worse.

theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Situation in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state and in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh remains murky & disturbing at best. Difficult to get good picture of reported enforced conscription by AA, ARSA, RSO, ARA & SAC. Suffering continues.
Shafiur Rahman⁩ rohingyarefugee.news/p/acknowledgme…

#Myanmar ’s military dictatorship now control less than half the country. The more desperate they become, the more atrocities they commit - bombing civilians, burning villages, imprisoning human rights defenders. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🇲🇲 apnews.com/article/myanma…

Putting a spotlight on transnational repression
CC: Irwin Cotler Samuel Cogolati Senator Jeff Merkley James Paterson Iain Duncan Smith MP Marco Rubio Sujeet Kumar 🇮🇳 Loren Legarda Eva DECROIX Centa Rek Senadora Enrico Borghi
x.com/MIGSinstitute/…

Oh my. This appears simply a loss of insight and of judgement (never mind the politics). And impunity renders moot all credible criticism of others. Huge costs for the RBIO, moral claims of putative democracies, Western values etc. Tragic.

One didn't need to agree with him (I often did not) in order to appreciate his sharp intellect, sharper wit, authentic voice and sincerity. And he frequently had good points which articulated views shared by many (if not the majority). His contribution was to robust debate.

'Obsequious'? You mean, more accurately, ingratiating, subservient or toadying? Yes, looks pretty clear. And sad. 🤦‍♂️

Breathtaking. So much for International Law, the 'rules based international order', upholding human rights, feminist foreign policy, humanitarian norms, even basic honesty (or competency). And for what? Justin Trudeau Chrystia Freeland Liberal Party

Republicans introduce the 'Illegitimate Court Counteraction' Act to sanction the #ICC for its investigation into 🇮🇱 officials & 'other American allies'.

It's about time ICC member states, including 🇨🇦 (Mélanie Joly Ahmed Hussen), explicitly condemn these deplorable efforts.

💯 So, remind me: What exactly does the vaunted Feminist Foreign Policy say exactly about this? Or anything at all? Remarkable 🦗🦗🦗🦗

Israel to Grant Control of Rafah Crossing to Private U.S. Firm

Can't make this stuff up. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Today I got the news that another student of the Human Rights Clinic uOttawa CREDP, who worked with us on the Business and Human Rights project, got admitted to the Law School of our university.
I was humbled that she chose to highlight her time at the Clinic on her application.

1/🧵 #Brexit trade watch

Data for the first quarter of 2024 now available

Here is the current UK trade performance (based on fresh data from Germany):

Jan-Mar 2024 vs Jan-Mar 2019

German exports 🇩🇪 to:
+20% total
+26% 🇪🇺 EU
+37% 🇺🇸 USA
+2% 🇨🇳 China

-10% 🇬🇧 UK

Thailand’s former PM Thaksin held talks with Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups, govt in exile - thainewsroom.com/2024/05/07/mya…

Grim...
IDPs in Myanmar reach 3 million & the number needing food aid now estimated at 18.6 million.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

reliefweb.int/report/myanmar…

The #terrorist rebel group (AA) so-called Arakan Army these hitters maybe either AA or their community people are hitting #Rohingya like same system of Burmese genocidal military have done.

Does #AA want democracy?

National Unity Government Myanmar Aung Kyaw Moe Int'l Criminal Court OIC ASEAN United Nations United Nations

When should a person who claims asylum in Canada fleeing violence or persecution elsewhere be thrown into a Canadian federal prison? That's easy: never. But it looks like CBSA does not agree...

#Buthidaung Rohingya Urgent UN peace keeping #force need in Arakan State to save rest of the alive #Rohingya , Rohingya are being killed #brutally by AA again #massacre , mass grave have been increased.

On 02 May 24 AA killed hundreds of Rohingya and #burnt down their villages.