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How does Canada compare internationally on gender equality, and what work still needs to be done?
Canada, along with other United Nations Member States, reports to the United Nations every five years on national progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995).
2019-20 Main Estimates
2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) – Budget 2019 funding for capacity building of LGBTQ2 community organizations
There are data gaps on the nature and prevalence of gender-based violence in Canada.
The 2019-20 Supplementary Estimates (A) provides the Harbourfront Centre Funding Program an additional $7.5 million for the Harbourfront Centre to realize significant improvements to its infrastructure and to its operations, including roof replacements, electrical upgrades, increased public accessibility, theatre equipment upgrades to industry performance standards, upgraded IT and software for enhanced security, communications, marketing and financial management.
The Syrian conflict involves multiple armed groups and external backers. Ceasefires must be enforced and humanitarian access secured for a meaningful peace process to be possible.
Canada's position regarding our change in vote at the UN from “No” to “Yes” on the resolution titled “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”
Questions may arise regarding measures taken by Canada in response to the unusual symptoms reported by some Canadian diplomats and family members in Cuba.
On November 18, 2019 United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that US does not consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be “per se inconsistent with international law.”