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  R2P Update: UN SC side event and MENA trainings emphasize prevention

  December 2018

  by Marijke Kremin

  The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect and partners convened a UN Security Council side event in October 2018 on women’s roles in atrocity and conflict prevention, producing concrete action points ahead of the 2019 UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings. The ICRtoP also conducted Responsibility to Protect training sessions in Beirut in December 2018, in partnership with the Permanent Peace Movement, to strengthen civil society capacity in the MENA region.

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  Progress report on the National Action Plan on women, peace and security

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · October 2018

  Indigenous departments joining the reporting partners marks a new domestic consideration in Canada’s women, peace and security plan, while Minister Freeland’s announced Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security gets a supporting office.

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  Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: What comes now (December 2017)

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018

  by Monique Cuillerier

  Annual progress reports and a civil society advisory group answer long-standing demands, but uneven departmental plans and a loose Theory of Change leave a gap between Canada’s WPS pledges and delivery.

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  Important meeting for the ICC

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · October 2017

  Ratification of the Kampala amendments has passed the threshold, leaving a two-thirds vote of states parties to give the ICC power over aggression, while the Coalition presses for independent judges and more women on the bench.

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  The Women, Peace and Security Agenda – Canada prepares to renew its National Action Plan (June 2017)

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017

  Monique Cuillerier describes how Canadian civil society compared other countries’ women, peace and security plans, found disappointing consultation, funding and diaspora involvement, and shaped a two-day Ottawa consultation around those lessons.

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  Preventing and addressing armed conflict: The role of women in the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (2017)

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017

  Women’s inclusion in peacebuilding and peacekeeping is critical for sustainable peace. Peace agreements with civil society and women are 50% more likely to succeed.

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  Canada’s international policies

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2017

  Canada announces feminist international assistance policy with $150 million for women’s rights. UN officials express disappointment over Canada’s lack of military and leadership contributions to UN operations.

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  Canada and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: What Now?

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2016

  Canada’s role in advancing the women, peace and security agenda faces gaps in global and national implementation. The committee calls for a new national action plan and UN institutional reform.

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  António Guterres: The Next UN Secretary-General

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2016

  Monique Cuillerier reports that campaigners for a woman Secretary-General were partly won over after meeting Guterres, whose team promises a woman from the global south as deputy and gender parity at all levels.

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  International Criminal Court Update

  WFM –⁠ CanadaWorld Federalist Movement – Canada · June 2016

  A draft policy from ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda would guide how her office handles crimes against or affecting children; comments are open until 5 August and the final text is due in November 2016.