Traduction de «Aide humanitaire et Corps suisse d'aide humanitaire » (Français → Anglais) :

According to the proposed legislation, the minister for international development will be responsible for fostering sustainable international development and poverty reduction in developing countries and for providing humanitarian assistance during crises by, first, undertaking activities related to international development and humanitarian assistance; second, ensuring the effectiveness of Canada's international development and humanitarian assistance activities; third, fostering relations with other countries and organizations engaged in international development or humanitarian activities; and finally, ensuring Canada's contributio ...[+++]ns to international development and humanitarian assistance are in line with Canadian values and with Canadian priorities.

Question No. 150 Mr. Peter Julian: With respect to Canada’s humanitarian, reconstruction and foreign aid to the Palestinian people living in the occupied Palestinian territories: (a) what is the current status of the $300 million in foreign aid originally pledged in 2006 and re-pledged March 3, 2009 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt; (b) what progress was made on delivering these funds in the interim period between its original pledge and its re-pledge; (c) what are the delivery mechanisms for this aid and what department is responsible for ...[+++] the file; (d) what are the terms of reference for this file, and what are the timelines for delivery; (e) what proportion of these funds have been earmarked for Gaza and what are the proportions for each (i) reconstruction, (ii) humanitarian aid; (f) given the lack of construction materials within Gaza and the constrained flow of material into Gaza, what provisions have been made to ensure reconstruction; (g) what discussions, if any, have taken place with the Government of Israel to ensure protection of Canada’s investment in Gazan infrastructure; (h) what proportion of the $300 million has been earmarked for the operational budget of the Fatah-led Palestinian National Authority (PA), based in Ramallah, West Bank and what aspects of the PA’s budget will benefit from these funds; (i) given the PA’s inability to operate in Gaza, what operational caveats were placed on those portions of the $300 million earmarked for Gaza to ensure delivery; (j) what is the current status of the $4 million announced by the Government of Canada on January 7, 2009 for humanitarian aid at the height of Israel’s military operation on Gaza, to be divided between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East and the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent; (k) what commitments, if any, were made to deliver these funds in a timely manner to the people for whom they were allocated and how did they help ...

A. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in Article 214(5), provides that: ‘In order to establish a framework for joint contributions from young Europeans to the humanitarian aid operations of the Union, a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps shall be set up’,

19. Draws attention, as regards the planning for future EU mixed civil/military missions, to the proposals and ideas contained in the report entitled "A Human Security Doctrine for Europe"; welcomes in this regard not only the current developments in the field of ESDP, such as the establishment of Civ/Mil, which are in congruence with the general direction of this report, but also the future creation of a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps as provided for in Article III-321(5) of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe; notes, however, that the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid ...[+++]Corps is primarily envisaged, in that article, as "a framework for joint contributions from young Europeans"; demands therefore that the framework of this be either expanded or complemented by the setting-up of a complementary "Corps" drawing upon the experience and expertise of mid- and post–career professionals, so as to create a functional corps more along the lines of the European Civil Peace Corps - as proposed on several occasions by the Parliament;

19. Draws attention, as regards the planning for future EU mixed civil/military missions, to the proposals and ideas in the Report “A Human Security Doctrine for Europe”; welcomes in this regard not only the current developments in the field of ESDP, such as the establishment of Civ/Mil, which are in congruence with the general direction of this report, but also the future creation of a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps as provided for in Article III-321(5) of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe; notes, however, that the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid ...[+++]Corps is primarily envisaged, in that article, as “a framework for joint contributions from young Europeans”; demands therefore that the framework of this be either expanded or complemented by the creation of a complementary “Corps” so as to draw upon the experience and expertise of mid- and post–career professionals in attaining a functional corps more along the lines of the European Civil Peace Corps - as proposed on several occasions by the Parliament;

Her motion “urges the government to announce an assistance plan for Lebanon that's appropriate to the needs”, yet every member of the opposition just voted to prevent CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency, from providing evidence on exactly the humanitarian assistance plan that is in place, that is being implemented—the $5.5 million of humanitarian aid.