Anand says Ottawa will restore envoy for women, peace, security in reversal - BERITAJA

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa will reconstruct the position of envoy for women, bid and information successful the coming weeks.

Anand announced the move astatine the Ottawa Civic Space Summit today, much than a twelvemonth aft the Liberal authorities fto the domiciled expire.

She says the domiciled links Canada’s longtime support for intersexual authorities and combating gender-based unit pinch a caller attraction connected defence.

WPS diplomacy recognizes the disproportionate effect of warfare connected women and girls and promotes their activity successful peacebuilding and conflict prevention.

It has been portion of Ottawa’s diplomacy since Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.

The move to fto the domiciled lapse was roundly condemned by assistance groups, which besides criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney for saying he would not picture Canada’s overseas argumentation arsenic feminist.