Will Canada’s aid policy for women really make a difference?

'To achieve longer-term impact that truly capacitates women to respond to their own specific needs, Canada must invest beyond the position of immediate necessities.'

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured, has made it clear that Canadian aid is committed to helping first and foremost vulnerable women and girls. But UNCHR representative in Canada Jean-Nicolas Beuze ask what Canada’s new aid policy means for Rohingya women and their 33 million sisters around the world who have also been forcibly displaced?The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JEAN-NICOLAS BEUZE

March 8, 2018

Since the introduction of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy in June last year, close to half a million Rohingya women and children have fled terrible violence. Many recount harrowing stories of rape and sexual abuse, loss of family members or being separated from loved ones during ...

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