Feds should push for more accountability on Rohingya crisis, as it eyes UN Security Council seat, say former justice ministers

'We cannot allow the UN Security Council to behave as a bystander group,' says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler.

Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne's mandate letter tasks him with securing one of two rotating seats up for grabs on the UN Security Council. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

April 30, 2020

Canada’s push to secure a seat on the UN Security Council will help it advocate for more accountability from the Myanmar military in its actions against Rohingya Muslims, say former Parliamentarians and advocates, but that should not stop the government from supporti...

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