The way forward on human rights

Promises to do more inevitably remain empty without implementation and accountability.
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has been tasked with championing equality, diversity and the rights of women and refugees around the world.
Céline, a tenacious grassroots women’s human rights defender in Chad, once asked me, “if our views are not sought and we are not free to express them, how can we hold the government to their promises?”   She has, to say t...

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