6 MAR 2024 · Remarks from Pramila Patten, SRSG on Sexual Violence in Conflict Remarks, on recent visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank. The report from her Office, arose from an official visit to Israel at the invitation of the Government, which included a visit to the occupied West Bank, between 29 January and 14 February. In the context of the coordinated attack by Hamas and others of 7 October, the UN mission team found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape in at least three locations in southern Israel. In some locations, the mission said it could not verify reported incidents of rape.

27 JAN 2023 · In Ottawa, federal leaders and other speakers deliver remarks at a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In attendance are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, as well as Ahmed Hussen (federal minister of housing and diversity and inclusion), Verna McGregor (elder of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation), Annette Wildgoose (the daughter of a Holocaust survivor), Artur Wilczynski (Canada’s head of delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance), Ronen Hoffman (Israeli ambassador to Canada), David Cohen (U.S. ambassador to Canada), Sabine Sparwasser (German ambassador to Canada), Shimon Koffler Fogel (CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs), Agnes Klein (Holocaust survivor), Andrea Freedman (CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa), Mark Sutcliffe (mayor of Ottawa), and Rabbi Idan Scher (leader of the Machzikei Hadas congregation in Ottawa). Laurence Wall (CBC news presenter) presides over the ceremony.

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