UN General Assembly

• Canada highlights severe wildfire season to promote carbon pricing at UN

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the big draw at a UN event Wednesday aimed at encouraging countries to put a price on pollution.

  Canada

  Sep 21, 2023
  
• India-Canada tensions top of mind as Trudeau heads to UN General Assembly

  Trudeau rocked the House of Commons on Monday with 'credible allegations' linking agents of India's government to the deadly shooting of a Sikh leader in B.C.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2023
  
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• Trudeau heads to UN general assembly as world faces ‘serious moment’

  Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on relentlessly, the global angst augmented by last week's ominous meeting between President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

  World

  Sep 18, 2023
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• UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s ‘illegal’ annexations in Ukraine with resolution

  Western nations engaged in intense behind-the-scenes lobbying ahead of the vote while Russia's ally Syria warned against isolating Moscow.

  World

  Oct 12, 2022
• Japan’s Kishida says UN reforms needed to prevent Russian vetoes over Ukraine war

  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expressed disappointment over the failure of the UN Security Council to respond to the war because of Russia's right of veto.

  World

  Sep 20, 2022
• UN to allow Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to virtually address next week’s world leaders summit

  The U.N. voted to make an exception to a rule that requires world leaders to address the assembly in person, due to Zelenskyy's need to deal with Russia's invasion.

  World

  Sep 16, 2022
• U.K.’s Boris Johnson says humanity needs to ‘grow up,’ face climate crisis at U.N.

  Johnson is using his trip to the U.N. General Assembly to press governments for tougher emissions-cutting targets and more money to help poor countries clean up their economies.

  World

  Sep 22, 2021
• Taliban seek to address UN General Assembly instead of Afghanistan ambassador

  The Taliban are challenging the credentials of their country's former U.N. ambassador and want to speak at the General Assembly's high-level meeting, the international body says.

  World

  Sep 21, 2021
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• Feb. 6 declared International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM in Saskatchewan

  According to End FGM Canada Network, Canada has more than 100,000 survivors of female genital mutilation.

  Canada

  Feb 6, 2020
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• UN condemns human rights abuses against Myanmar’s Rohingya

  The 193-member world body voted 134-9 with 28 abstentions in favour of the resolution which also calls on Myanmar’s government to take urgent measures to combat incitement of hatred against the Rohingya and other minorities in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan states.

  World

  Dec 28, 2019