| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, hosted a ministerial meeting today with key partners to discuss the security situation in Haiti.
| Global Affairs Canada | media advisories
June 13, 2023 - The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will host an international virtual Ministerial Meeting on Haiti, where she will deliver opening remarks. This meeting is an opportunity to mobilize international partners in response to the security crisis in Haiti, and to enhance coordination of international efforts.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, today concluded a trip to Varanasi, India, where from June 11 to 13, 2023, he took part in the G20 Development Ministers’ Meeting and visited Canada’s High Commission in India.
| Global Affairs Canada | statements
“Today, Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands have started legal proceedings at the International Court of Justice to hold Syria accountable for torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment of its own people. Since 2011, Syrians have been tortured, murdered, sexually assaulted, forcibly disappeared and subjected to chemical weapon attacks on a mass scale. Twelve years on, human rights violations at the hands of the Syrian regime persist.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
Canada has supported accountability and transitional justice initiatives that aim to hold the Assad regime and other parties in the conflict accountable for the countless human rights violations it has inflicted on the Syrian people since at least 2011.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing additional sanctions against 24 individuals and 17 entities in Ukraine as part of the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations. These new measures are in direct response to Russia’s attempts to destroy Ukraine’s cultural sites, institutions and identity.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that the Government of Canada had ordered the seizure of a Russian-registered cargo aircraft currently grounded at Toronto Pearson Airport, pursuant to the Special Economic Measures Act.
| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders
On June 9, 2023, the Government of Canada announced more than $69.5 million in funding for a total of 26 projects to support security, peace and stability in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
The Government of Canada recognizes the need to evolve and to adapt to an increasingly complex global security environment. As part of its commitment to the Global Coalition against Daesh, Canada is supporting peace and stability around the world by addressing the underlying conditions that lead to instability.
| Global Affairs Canada | news releases
This week, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, was in Paris and met with international partners and participated in the 2023 Ministerial Council Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
