The petition has over 2,000 signatures! An immense thank you to those who signed! Please share and keep sharing the link.

Protocol for pushing an item for vote at the UN General Assembly meeting on September 15, 2020 is to go through your countries representative. Listed below are the Canadian reps and the UN contacts who can push it forward, please feel free to contact them – the more voices the better! Here is a link to the UN reps for each participating country if you want to pressure your government: https://www.un.org/en/member-states/index.html

·         Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Email: Media@pmo-cpm.gc.ca; IG: @justinptrudeau; Twitter: @JustinTrudeau

·         Marc-André Blanchard, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in NY, Email: canada.un@international.gc.ca, Twitter: @CanadaUN

·         The Honourable Bardish Chagger, Canadian Minister of Diversity and Inclusion and Youth, Email: hon.bardish.chagger@canada.ca, Twitter: @BardishKW

·         Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, UN General Assembly, President: Twitter: @BandeTijjani

·         Volkan Bozkir, *newly appointed President of the 75th session of the General Assembly, Email: tr-delegation.newyork@mfa.gov.tr, Twitter: @volkan_bozkir

·         Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, IG & Twitter @antonioguterres; @unitednations

Once again, I cannot thank everyone enough for taking the time to sign and share this petition. Let’s get a billion signatures… yes I said a BILLION!

Respectfully,

Simone Marcantonio