A Historic First and a New Global Agenda
Change is coming on the international stage, and Africa is proving itself to be a central player.
100 days from now, South Africa will be hosting the G20: one of the most influential international forums. This is generating a lot of attention, and for good reason. It will be the first ever G20 chaired by an African Member State, and we can expect it to mark a big shift in powerful conversations. Canada...
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Here’s your first opportunity to take action as a member of our insider election e-newsletter! This week we are urging you to email your local candidates asking them to prioritize trade diversification with Africa.
Instructions:
Visit elections.ca
Type in your postal code in ‘My Voter Information’
Click ‘Who are the candidates in my electoral district’
This will reveal all the candidates running in your riding and their websites where you can find their email addresses
Copy/paste the email template below (inserting each candidate’s name) in...
Guess what? The Canadian Federal Budget has just dropped. So, let's talk about the scoop on Official Development Assistance (ODA) – since it's not half bad!
Here's the lowdown: International Assistance gets a bump of around 5% compared to last year's budget. The standout addition? An extra $350 million over 2 years for humanitarian aid – talk about a much-needed boost, especially with all the crises happening in Gaza, Haiti, Sudan, and Ukraine. Now, here's the kicker: this 5% boost...
Thank you for the letter you sent to me on International Women’s Day and for calling on world leaders to recognise the indisputable link between gender inequality and extreme poverty.
Grace is one of hundreds of thousands who have entered Uganda as a refugee. In addition to being resettled into a new community, they are also desperately in need of access to education.
Now, don’t get me wrong, huge progress has been made in the fight for equal rights, such as votes for women and in some parts of the world, governments that have equal representation, HOWEVER, there are still many obstacles in the way when it comes to achieving equality of the sexes.