Advancing gender equality, LGBTQ rights, sexual health and reproductive rights will be a focus of Canada’s candidacy for a Human Rights Council seat
Human Rights Council, pledging to advance issues from online speech to access to abortion.
Advancing gender equality, LGBTQ rights, sexual health and reproductive rights will be another focus of Canada’s candidacy. The Council investigates alleged human-rights breaches in UN states, committed by governments or societal actors. Ottawa will likely also push to regulate platforms that have been used to instigate violence. For example, anti-Rohingya riots in Myanmar have been linked to inflammatory falsehoods circling on Facebook.
An official familiar with Canada’s coming bid says Ottawa is making a deliberate choice to engage in a flawed agency as a means to bring about change through multilateral institutions.
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