I have the honour of delivering this statement on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Civil society is our eyes and ears on the ground and provides critical information and perspectives on a number of issues. Its representatives should therefore be at the table during United Nations meetin…
Over the past decade, we have convened to express our alarm at the exponential rise in humanitarian needs, calling every year “unprecedented”. And yet, at the end of 2023 we find ourselves having faced another challenging year of historic needs driven by increasingly protracted conflicts, exacerbate…
Canada regrets to see draft amendments (A/78/L.19 and A/78/L.18) on operative paragraph 8 and the thirty-third preambular paragraph, respectively. These draft amendments are extremely concerning.
As a State party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Canada strongly support…
We started 2022 with 274 million people in need, a tragic increase from 2021’s figure of 235 million, already considered to be the highest in decades. That number climbed through 2022 to reach a staggering 324 million. Projections for 2023 put the number at 339 million, and we are once again calling…
