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About Education Cannot Wait

| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders

Canada continues to fight poverty both at home and abroad. Making the world a better place means ensuring that girls enjoy a strong start in life.


Empowered women and girls will stop HIV/AIDS epidemic: Statement by Minister Bibeau on World AIDS Day

| Global Affairs Canada | statements

The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development, today issued the following statement: “We have made tremendous progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Since 2005 we have nearly cut in half the number of people dying because of AIDS, and we have dramatically increased the number of people living with HIV on treatment.


Canada signs new trade agreement with United States and Mexico

| Global Affairs Canada | news releases

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the signing of a new agreement to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico. The new agreement will support good, middle class jobs in Canada; strengthen economic ties between the three countries; and contribute to North America’s global competitiveness.


G7 foreign ministers’ statement on recent events near Kerch Strait

| Global Affairs Canada | statements

We, the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, express our utmost concern about Russia's actions against Ukraine in the Kerch Strait and surrounding waters, ‎which have dangerously raised tensions. There is no justification for Russia’s use of military force against Ukrainian ships and naval personnel.


Jamal Khashoggi case

| Global Affairs Canada | backgrounders

Effective immediately, Canada is imposing sanctions pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act against 17 Saudi nationals believed to be responsible for or complicit in the extrajudicial killing of Jamal Khashoggi that took place at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, 2018.


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