{"id":182550,"date":"2018-09-22T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182550"},"modified":"2025-01-09T03:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T08:53:13","slug":"ottawa-to-name-new-ambassador-for-women-peace-and-security-freeland-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/22\/ottawa-to-name-new-ambassador-for-women-peace-and-security-freeland-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa to name new ambassador for women, peace and security, Freeland says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182551\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182551\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Dnq3iAqXgAIM_9e-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freeland made the announcement at a meeting of female foreign affairs ministers in Montreal that she co-hosted with Federica Mogherini, the high representative for the European Union. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cafreeland\/status\/1043348398819209216\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cafreeland\">@cafreeland\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">MONTREAL \u2014 Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Freeland made the announcement at a meeting of female foreign affairs ministers in Montreal that she co-hosted with Federica Mogherini, the high representative for the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Freeland did not offer many details but said the new ambassador would help champion feminist-based aid programs and advocate for more female participation in peacekeeping and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;International and domestic civil society committed to feminism has been telling us that Canada needs to be even more ambitious, and one way to do that is to have a high-level champion for these issues,&#8221; she said during her closing remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Freeland also confirmed Canada would spend about  million to fund a number of initiatives aimed at combating gender-based violence and promoting women&#8217;s participation in peace processes, and would co-chair a global network on women, peace and security with Uruguay in 2020.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis super active online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-super-active.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-super-active.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The two-day summit brought together at least half of the 30 women who hold foreign affairs portfolios globally, as well as Japan&#8217;s foreign minister, who is male, and civil society actors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zoloft online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zoloft.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zoloft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mogherini said the meetings touched on many issues including conflict prevention, combating gender-based violence, and sustainable development goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The summit is believed to be the first official summit of female foreign affairs ministers, but she said it wouldn&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mogherini said the group will keep in touch and is planning to meet again next year, just before or after the annual session of the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Without establishing formal networks or organizations, we will simply work as closely as possible together to advance a foreign policy agenda that makes sure the world uses the full potential of its entire population,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis soft online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-soft.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/cialis-soft.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mogherini says the group collectively decided to eschew issuing a joint communique or statement at the end of the meeting in order to keep the discussions &#8220;as open-ended and real as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And while the meetings will continue, Mogherini said future iterations may not be as formal, or run under the exact same format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She also highlighted the presence of Japan&#8217;s foreign minister, Taro Kono, pointing out that male ministers were also invited to take part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We do not want to create a separate box,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We want to make sure that women in foreign policy, first of all are visible, secondly connect to each other, and thirdly work with others in a way that makes things advance for women in the world, because we believe it&#8217;s also a way to have men advance in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Following their closing remarks, Freeland and Mogherini were expected to lay flowers at a memorial for the 14 female victims of the 1989 Polytechnique shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Canada will create a new ambassador position dedicated to women, peace and security, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":182551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-morgan-lowrie","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281464,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182550\/revisions\/281464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}