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 2009

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11th Distinguished Service Award presented to the Honourable Douglas Roche, O.C. on June 1, 2009

 

OTTAWA, May 22, 2009 — The Honourable Douglas Roche, O.C., a former Senator and Member of Parliament who represented Edmonton, Alberta, will be honoured on Monday, June 1, 2009 with the Distinguished Service Award in recognition for his years of Parliamentary service, for his contribution to and respect for the institution of Parliament and for his continued interest and activity in the promotion of human welfare, human rights and parliamentary democracy in Canada and abroad.  The award will be presented by the Hon. Noël Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate of Canada, and the Hon. Peter Milliken, M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons.  The presentation will follow the unveiling of the Commemorative Plaques for Senators and Members of the House of Commons who served during the 39th Parliament. 

 

The Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C. has specialized in peace and human security issues throughout his 35-year public career.  He is the author of 19 books, including his latest, Creative Dissent: A Politician’s Struggle for Peace (Novalis, 2008).  He was a Senator and Member of Parliament, as well as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee, Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta and Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative.  He was also a member of the Pugwash Council, which won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for its work for nuclear disarmament.  Mr. Roche holds seven honourary doctorates from Canadian and American universities and has received numerous awards for his work for peace and non-violence. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.  Additional information on Mr. Roche and his work is available on his website at http://roche.apirg.org/public_html/index.html. 

 

The Distinguished Service Award is a peer-nominated award presented annually by the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians to a former parliamentarian.  Previous recipients are the Hon. Sheila Finestone, P.C.; the Hon. Jacques Hébert, O.C.; Mr. Wilton Littlechild, Q.C.; Mr. J. Roland Comtois; Dr. Bruce Halliday; Ms. Aideen Nicholson; the Hon. John M. Reid; Mr. Douglas M. Fisher; Mr. Stan Darling and the Hon. John Ross Matheson. 

 

The Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians (CAFP) was created in 1987 and is composed of former parliamentarians who served in either the Senate or the House of Commons.  An Act of Parliament (Bill C-275) established the association in 1996.  For more information about the Association, please www.exparl.ca. 

 

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58th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs

Justice, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

Conference Statement of the Pugwash Council

22 April 2009, The Hague, Netherlands  

 

 The Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, welcomes the new international climate that is being generated which makes it possible for multilateral cooperative solutions to be negotiated for the critical issues affecting the global community.  On nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, the international economic crisis, the urgent problem of climate change, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the strengthening of the rule of law, human rights, and other issues, the moment has arrived and we must seize the opportunity. As always, Pugwash stands ready to play its part. (more...)

 

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2008

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The Chronicle-Herald
Opinion, Friday, July 11, 2008, p. A9

Placing N.S. at centre of disarmament movement

Alexa McDonough

AS ONE of the global council co-presidents of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), I will have the privilege this weekend to collaborate with legislators from five continents and leading experts in nuclear disarmament who will be gathering in Pugwash. (more...)

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2007

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Pugwash Council Statement from Bari, Italy

 

Statement of the Pugwash Council

Bari, Italy

27 October 2007

 

 

The threat posed to humanity by the vast destructive power of nuclear weapons remains as dangerous today as it was 50 years ago when the initiators of the Pugwash Movement first met in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.  The need for “new thinking” on these matters is as urgent today as it was when the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, the founding document of Pugwash, first captured the world’s attention with its direct and urgent appeal.

Media Kit now available for 2007 Extraordinary Workshop (July 5 - 7, 2007). 

To download the media kit pdf. file, please click HERE.  

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On Tuesday, April 17th, Lieutenant-General the Honourable Roméo Dallaire urged the Senate to call on the Government of Canada to take a leading role in global nuclear disarmament.

The full transcript of the speech can be seen by clicking here.

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