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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland fulfills High Representative for the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President associated with European Council Federica Mogherini throughout the EU-Canada joint committee that is ministerial at the European Council in Brussels, Belgium, November, 2017.
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The world’s female foreign ministers will meet in Montreal today and tomorrow to discuss a range of global challenges, from advancing peace and security to eliminating violence against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings in a first-of-its-kind summit.
The conference, jointly hosted by Canada’s international affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, and her European Union counterpart, Federica Mogherini, comes at a crucial time globally. Despite great strides in peoples liberties defenses, women and girls stay goals of egregious liberties violations for which those responsible are seldom held to account.(więcej…)