Events

This is our Fifth Annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities Event and the first year we’re doing the event virtually. Going virtual this year means we have speakers and panelists from across Canada! Speakers and panelists will discuss a wide variety of topics including addressing the challenges persons with disabilities face, particularly youth, amidst […]

Join us for a night of celebration as we hear stories from different fairtrade licensees. Entrance will include a raffle ticket for a chance to win fairtrade goodies! Proceeds from the raffle will go towards the Fairtrade Producer Relief Fund. A zoom link will be sent out closer to the date of the event. About

Our panel will be moderated by Stephanie McBride, Education Advisor at WUSC and feature four panelists, Kaoutar Kaddouri, Project Manager at White Ribbon, Hawa Y. Mire, Executive Director at FAFIA-AFAI, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, Mohamed Omar Othowa, a remedial teacher from Windle International Kenya and Rawia Na’oum, Gender Equality Specialist, WUSC Jordan. The

Canada’s position vis-à-vis Colombia has remained virtually indistinguishable from that of Trump’s in the US. Through the “Lima Group”, the Canadian government has taken sides explicitly with the hard right Colombian government, as well as others throughout Latin America, at the expense of human rights, social justice, democracy and peace. As the human rights tragedy

Join us for a special online screening of Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man in recognition of World Toilet Day. This is a feature length documentary, lasting 88 minutes. How it works: This is a one-time only, live-stream screening at 7pm on Thursday Nov. 19, 2020. Registrants will receive a Zoom link to join the

Join us on Tuesday, November 24 at 2:00 pm (ET), as Fr Xavier Jeyaraj SJ talks about the alarming transformation of democracy in the world with the election of authoritarian regimes into office. His presentation will focus on India, the world’s largest democracy, with parallels drawn with changes taking place in Latin America, Asia, Africa

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Welcome to Sparking Connections, our first ever online, nation-wide gathering of the Amnesty International Canada (English Speaking) membership and wider community! While we have been prevented from gathering in our expected ways, this is an incredible opportunity to gather and connect in an unprecedented way! Our theme is strengthening grassroots connections between activists, groups, and

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Join us on Tuesday, November 17 at 1:00 pm (ET) as Juana Potes, Programs Officer of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Colombia, talks about the work of JRS in Colombia and their challenging context. Amid a global pandemic, they accompany, serve, and advocate on behalf of forcibly displaced people. JRS Colombia has been accompanying forcibly displaced