Resolution number
26
Whereas
- Genocide is going on in various parts of the world by the governments, armies, paramilitary and civil forces;
- Refugees are victims and survivors of and witnesses to genocides;
- The present international legal mechanisms cannot adequately address the widespread perpetration of genocide today, notably as it affects girls and women, by means of rape in war;
- The United Nations has recently begun to discuss the failure of international mechanisms to respond adequately to the crime of genocide;
Therefore be it resolved
- That the CCR call upon the government of Canada, in international fora:
- To address the inadequacy of international mechanisms to respond adequately to the crime of genocide;
- To ask for a review of the Genocide Convention;
- To provide new funding to the United Nations Human Rights Centre for international human rights mechanisms because these are seriously underfunded.
Working Group
Overseas Protection and Resettlement