The Canadian International Development Agency

There are many charities to help towards human rights that Canada contributes to greatly. Including UNICEF Canada, Salvation Army Canada and Red Cross. These charities focus on mainly living rights. The charities contribute mainly food, clothing and medicine. Those are only two given rights. Although it is help for people to live their lives, it does not give them more rights, it is not a solution to increase their human rights and protect them.

The United Nations do multiple things such as following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN does this by working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one another, to be effective. The term “human rights” was mentioned seven times in the UN's founding Charter, making the promotion and protection of human rights a key purpose and guiding principle of the Organization. In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights brought human rights into the realm of international law. Since then, the Organization has diligently protected human rights through legal instruments and on-the-ground activities. The united nations are a great group of people who are looking out for us ever since Canada has joined this group they have been able to make an impact such as. Today, Canada continues to uphold the UN by actively participating in the organization's activities and providing financial support. Canada consistently brings pragmatic ideas and solutions to the table, from peacekeeping proposals in the 1950s, to creating the International Criminal Court and banning landmines in the 1990s. Today, some of their current goals are to assist war-affected children, or to improve the UN’s management and

The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is an inside look into the realities behind international aid and intervention. The book answers the question of whether or not international efforts in Haiti really benefited the nation in the long term. The book argues that the international community failed in their efforts to rebuild Haiti due to their mismatched military approaches, failed monetary pledges and how the how billions of dollars were ineffective, having served only short term needs instead of, rebuilding solid foundations and institutions that would serve as the first step toward sustainable development.

There are two main perspectives on foreign aid in Australia – are we giving too much or not enough? Foreign aid is given to developing countries, and is necessary to build an environment where policies and infrastructure can be in place to support other sources of finance. Australia is part of the worldwide foreign aid commitment as we value that everyone should have a fair go, and the country plans to give $3.9 billion over 2017 and 2018. We help countries in need by contributing, food, resources, providing financial assistance, exchanging goods, personal time and knowledge. The main types of aid are humanitarian aid, which is disaster relief and emergency aid and development aid, which is a long-term commitment between nations. Australian aid is strongly on development aid particularly focused on the Asia-Pacific region, but it also has a strong commitment to African and South Asia. Interestingly, 90% of Australia’s foreign aid goes to Asia-Pacific countries such as Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, because if they build into a developed nation, then we can build trade relations, regional security and partner in defence. This is a polarizing issue that divides the nation due to different views on Australia giving aid, however, a strong foreign aid program is vital for Australia to build successful relations and regional security.

Canada has been highly involved in global issues and has held itself on moral grounds, despite some opposing influence. Canada’s sovereign and morally just approach can be seen in many events in the 20th century, such as in the Second World War, the Korean War, the Suez Crisis and the Vietnam War. As well, Canada’s imperfect, yet improving immigration policy displays the acceptance and unbiased approach Canada has towards people of different backgrounds. Despite some minor missteps and impediments, Canada would make an excellent choice for UN Advisor Country for the reason that Canada has spearheaded much global intervention, especially for such a small (population-wise) and unassuming country.

A majority of Haiti’s economy relies on foreign aid, with over half of its annual budget coming from outside sources. In 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti which inflicted $7.8 billion in damage which caused the GDP to contract by 5.4%. Foreign aid skyrocketed and about $13.5 billion in donations and pledges flooded in with 75% of them coming from donor nations and the other 25% coming from private charities or organizations. Even 5 years after the earthquake, the situation hasn’t improved. Haitians are still dependent on foreign donations to live. The heavy dependence on donations makes up for Haiti’s low participation in the global economy, which is also negative. Besides the foreign aid, Haiti exports very few products -- with annual exports that are about a third of Jamaica's exports. The United States, a country that has trade

For example Canada provides financial aid of one hundred and eighty six million dollars towards Ethiopia and many other countries are supported with over one hundred million dollars such as Afghanistan, the Philippines, Syria and many other countries. Canada has been distributing money, and goods and services to other countries in need since the 1950’s. Canada had started providing aid to other countries following the Second World War, and

Canada helps many third world countries because Canadians feel sympathy for the people in third world countries, it helps the global economy, and it builds a good reputation and international relationship. Many Canadians will feel sympathy in the problems and environment people in the third world countries are living compared to the life that Canadians themselves have. Therefore Canadians will donate, make charity and urge the Canadian government to help the third world countries. Canada helps the global development and economy by giving aid to third world countries. Canada in return are helping themselves because if the global economy is good and every country have a stable economy, this means that they will be able to spend more money on

“There is a fundamental connection between human rights and peace on Earth when everyone’s rights are respected.” This is an inspirational quote stated by human rights activist John Humphrey. Human rights have been a growing movement for Canada and throughout the years it has developed throughout the nation. Canada has demonstrated a positive commitment to protecting LGBT rights. Also, Canada has demonstrated a positive commitment to protecting gender rights. Finally, Canada has demonstrated a positive commitment to protecting rights of ethnic minority from. Overall, Canada has presented a positive commitment to protecting human rights from 1912-2010.

Immigrants who come to Canada are survivors of armed conflict or torture, victims of smuggling and human trafficking or even children and families, many of whom do not speak English or French. They come to this country to seek security and live out a healthier life, they are not criminals, nor are they facing criminal charges. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has an overflow of immigrants who enter the country seeking refuge, their solution to this overflow, while they wait for approval to stay in the country, is to transfer these vulnerable people, who most likely suffer with mental health issues due to their previous living conditions, and confining them without notice, to provincial prisons, even though they are not serving a criminal

The article “Canada is not a global leader in human rights”, by Christie McLeod in 2017 argues that although Canada defined himself as a “globally human rights champion, kind and caring nation”. A nation who worries more about people of other nations and cultures (refugees) instead of taking care of their own. Even though McLeod made some strong points on her article; about how in a certain way in the Canadian history, the government committed serious atrocities against the aboriginal people such as the privation of human rights of their population, the cultural racism with the improper introduction by obligation of the “civilized world”, and the basic right of clean water. It was a very interesting article, well researched with some important

The Fredericton chapter of the Council of Canadians meet on the first Wednesday of every month, at 7pm at the Conserver House on St. Johns Street in Fredericton, New Brunswick; they discuss issues that are occurring within Fredericton and the surrounding areas of New Brunswick. The Council of Canadians are a nationwide group, consisting of over 100,000 members, within 60 chapters all across Canada. They aided the shale gas protesters, and also sent 1,000 pairs of headphones down to the protesters at Standing Rock, because the police were blasting them with loud sound guns. Each meeting, the Council of Canadians devise an agenda to discuss; this meeting consisted of issues surrounding the Standing Rock protest, government plans for Mount Carleton,

This paper considers two issues: firstly, human rights in the developing world and secondly Canada’s responsibility of humanitarian assistance. Both issues are of grave importance and are mutually exclusive - as nations lacking strong human rights standards are more likely to require the greatest humanitarian assistance. Additionally, the need for humanitarian assistance will increase as global crises become more frequent, due to climate change insecurity (Adger, Huq, Brown, Conway & Hulme, 2003). The example of climate change will be utilised throughout this paper to explore the disparaging links between climate justice and human rights. In defining humanitarian assistance this paper will take Jamieson’s (2004) definition that humanitarian assistance is a response to crises via support in the short term to overcome disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Whereas, development assistance considers the longer term issues in developing countries. By defining the two main types of assistance this paper will propose that greater investment into development aid may reduce the need for humanitarian aid as nations become more capable to support themselves. The body of this paper will consider key arguments concerning humanitarian assistance and human rights, including: Canadas humanitarian response in the developing world, the increasing need for global crisis response, human rights as a global responsibility and lastly the move from humanitarian to development assistance. In

As a well developed,superpower country Canada did a good job by providing Rwanda with military personnel,aid,humanitarian aid, and protection to the refugees after the dreadful Rwandan genocide. Firstly Canada helped the Rwandan citizens with medical help. Canada sent more than 200 medical staff in order to help the injured. Secondly, Canada sent around 400 soldier (excluding the soldiers in the U.N) in order to help to protect the innocent citizens from the killings of the rebels. Finally, Canada also helped the Rwandan citizens by helping them flee the country and enter into Canada. In conclusion, Canada acted like a role model to other country on how they were supposed to help other people with humanitarian aid, and military personnel.

In the peer-reviewed journal, “Indigenous Peoples and Multicultural Citizenship: Bridging Collective and Individual Rights,” Cindy L. Holder and Jeff J. Corntassel discuss the revaluation, problems, and restrictions of existing human rights instruments while examining the liberal-individualist and corporatist perspectives. This journal was written in response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was “ …. a milestone for universal legal protection of individuals” (Holder and Corntassel 126). When the existing human right means were reexamined due to the anniversary, there were several problems that arose. First, there is the absence of promoting universal acceptance of group rights when compared to