Join the International Women’s Day March & Rally on Saturday, March 8 in Toronto! The theme this year is, Fighting for Our Lives. Building Our Resistance. The rally will be held at OISE Auditorium at 11:00am. The march will leave from there starting at 1:00pm. All are welcome. Sign language services are available. When: Saturday, […]
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Join the Sudanese Students Union at the University of Toronto for a screening of, “Sudan, Remember Us”. About the Documentary They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. As it intertwines their stories, the film reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of
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Toronto Centre and CARE Canada are co-hosting a virtual panel session to mark Canada’s International Development Week. Closing the financial inclusion gender gap is essential for sustainable economic growth and stability. It empowers women socially and economically while strengthening financial systems. Safeguarding and accelerating the progress made over the past 15 years is critical to ensuring
International Development Week 2025- Locally Led Development- How do we do it? (French to follow below) Description: Join us for a lively discussion on the ins and outs of locally led development. The event will start off with a talk by Professor Maïka Sondarjee on locally led development and decolonization in the development sector. This
As part of International Development Week 2025, Cooperation Canada and IDRC are proud to present a reception and a screening of The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos, a powerful, thought-provoking film that offers a riveting critique of urban development and forced evictions in Africa’s largest city, Lagos. Directed by the Agbajowo Collective, this striking debut film
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Write for Rights 2024 is here! It’s the world’s largest human rights event, marked each year on International Human Rights Day. We in the GTA will be joining Amnesty supporters in over 170 countries to support 9 individuals or groups (including one in Canada). They need massive pressure from us to protect them from the
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We are excited to launch the 17th Toronto Palestine Film Festival program with our most popular summer event – our annual Outdoor Souq & Screening 🎥 Come early and join us for Palestinian music🎶, food 😋, a marketplace and lots of community spirit before we watch Alam, The Flag directed by Firas Khoury at sunset✨✨
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Join Free Them All Films for a film screening of Sit-In (2021): a film about the Sudanese people’s struggle against their government’s many attempts at violently thwarting liberation efforts. In December 2018, the Sudanese people took to the streets in wide protests and demonstrations against the oppressive al-Bashir regime. On April 6th 2019, the protestors staged a
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Join the Red Pashmina Walk in Peterborough, Ontario on May 4, 2024 in support of Afghan women’s and girls’ right to learn! Since 2010, the Red Pashmina Campaign has been raising money for the education of women and girls in Afghanistan in partnership with the local chapter of CW4WAfghan through the walk and by selling
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Join World BEYOND War for our 4th annual virtual film festival! Marking International Women’s Day (March 8), this year’s “Women & War” virtual film festival from March 9-23, 2024 explores the intersection of women, war, and militarized masculinity. Each week, we’ll host a live Zoom discussion with key representatives from the films and special guests to
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