Policy and Rights

How is the UN Dealing with the issue of the children who have been mentally and physically injured during the Russian invasion Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

President Biden Announces New Action by his Administration to Fight Gun Crime Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks with reporters on Parliament Hill following the presentation of the federal budget. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

In the House of Commons, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presents details of the 2022 federal budget. This is the Liberal government's first budget since the September 20, 2021, federal election. It is also the first since the NDP agreed to support the Liberals on confidence votes in exchange for action on dental care and pharmacare, among other priorities. Become a supporter of this podcast: h...

Building a future that is fair, equal, and peaceful, with clean air and clean water for everyone, is at the heart of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). All UN member States adopted the 17 SDGs as part of a shared blueprint that focuses on ending poverty, improving health and education, reducing inequality, spurring economic growth – all while tackling climate change and prote...

A delegation of five members of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, hold a news conference while visiting Ottawa during Russia’s ongoing invasion of their country. Speaking with reporters are Lesia Zaburanna (chair of the delegation), Yevheniya Kravchuk, Anastasia Radina, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, and Maria Ionova. The delegation members call on the Canadian government to supply more h...

US President Joe Biden has ordered the release of up to one million barrels of oil per day from the United States’ strategic petroleum reserve, as it moves to lessen the impact of rising gas prices amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The US and other nations have barred imports of Russian oil and gas over the country’s ongoing invasion of its neighbour, while European countries have pledged to wean...

WHO is releasing our updated Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan for COVID-19. This is our third strategic plan for COVID-19, and it could and should be our last. It lays out three possible scenarios for how the pandemic could evolve this year. Based on what we know now, the most likely scenario is that the virus continues to evolve, but the severity of disease it causes reduces ov...

President Biden Signs Into Law H.R. 55, the “Emmett Till Antilynching Act” Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

Can the Ukraikian Army hold up to the Russians? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin speak briefly with reporters ahead of their bilateral meeting in Brussels, Belgium. The prime minister is in Belgium on a two-day official visit, during which he will attend meetings of European Union, G7 and NATO leaders concerning the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Council Presi...

Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), holds a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, following an extraordinary summit of leaders of NATO member countries about the military alliance's response to the ongoing Russian military attack of Ukraine. The summit comes one month since the start of Russia's invasion. NATO leaders confirmed more military ai...

The global increase in COVID-19 cases continues, driven by large outbreaks in Asia and a fresh wave in Europe.
 Several countries are now seeing their highest death rates since the beginning of the pandemic.
 This reflects the speed with which Omicron spreads, and the heightened risk of death for those who are not vaccinated, especially older people.
 We all want to move on from the pandemic. But...

We strongly condemn President Putin’s unjustifiable and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and stand unwavering in our support of Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty and territorial integrity. We are determined to defend our shared values and the rules-based international system. We are committed to the advancement of human rights, gender equality and inclusion, and the protection of fundamental freedoms...

Russia has been accused of using phosphorus bombs in its invasion of Ukraine – as US president Joe Biden warned of the risk of a chemical weapons attack. White phosphorus munitions were deployed in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Monday, Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/policy-and-rights--3339563/support .

As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict enters its 4th week, the Russian president Putin delivered a stark warning to West and called for natural unnecessary cleansing of the Russian society. The Kremlin leader said the West was enforced using the fifth column to try and divide the Russian society. He accused the Western alliance of funding misinformation to cause civil friction so as to achieve the ult...

The war Russia is waging against Ukraine has been described and probably very accurately described as barbaric, inhumane and unlawful. Russia has missiles and bombed civilian sites such as daycares, kindergartens, hospitals with pregnant women and sick children. In the city of miracle alone, they took a strike against a hospital that housed sick mothers and in another city, they took in a strike a...

Informal comments to the media by H.E. Zbigniew Rau, Poland’s Foreign Minister & Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), on the situation in Ukraine Prime Minister Trudeau strongly condemned the unlawful use of force and aggression by Russia against the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine. The leaders discussed the impact...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a joint news conference in Warsaw with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Trudeau announces additional humanitarian aid in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including $117 million for special immigration measures to accelerate the arrival of Ukrainians to Canada. The federal government is also tripling the amount it will match for any donations individual Ca...

Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe Firstly, we are working to get the health supplies that are needed into Ukraine, and ensure a sustainable system of “safe passage” for the delivery of humanitarian health supplies to where they are needed within the country. I have been working closely with Amin Awad, Assistant Secretary-General and UN Crisis Coordinator for Ukr...

While in Germany, the Prime Minister spoke on the phone with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to reiterate Canada’s solidarity with the Ukrainian people, applaud their outstanding bravery and courage, and extend further support to the people in Ukraine. The Prime Minister informed President Zelenskyy that Canada will be sending a new shipment of highly specialized military equipment...

David Muir, Zelenskyy addresses Russian bombardment of cities across his country and how his citizens are standing up against the Russian military. Palki Sharma Upadhyay How Western Automobiles are helping to fund the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What Joe Biden's obstacles to ending the Global need for Russian oil. In Poland how are the Ukraine refugees adjusting Become a supporter of this podcast...

[The emergency special session — the eleventh called since the founding of the United Nations — opened on 28 February, meeting less than 24 hours after being mandated to do so by a vote in the Security Council, following its failure to adopt a resolution condemning the Russian Federation’s recent actions in Ukraine. See Press Releases SC/14808 and SC/14809 for details.] Become a supporter of this...

Low vaccination coverage in many countries of the Caribbean must be urgently addressed to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect the most vulnerable, warned PAHO Director, Carissa F. Etienne, with health care workers and the elderly remaining particularly at risk. Out of the 13 countries and territories in the Americas that have not yet reached WHO’s 2021 goal of 40% vaccination coverage, 10 are...

Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136). In its third emergency meeting on Ukraine this week, Russia vetoed a Security Council draft resolution today (25 Feb) that would have condemned the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine. Following the vote, US Ambassador Linda T...