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Anti-mining activist killed and Ecuadorean partners harassed on eve of Lima...
I have been in Quito, Ecuador meeting with KAIROS partners Acción Ecológica and the Latin American Council of Churches (CLAI) before heading to Lima, Peru for the Peoples’ summit and the 20th UN...
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Tribunal at Peoples’ Summit calls for a UN Declaration on the Rights of Nature
On my first day at the Peoples’ Summit on COP20 in Lima, I participated in the first day of the Tribunal on the Rights of Nature, organized by the Alliance of the Rights of Nature, which includes...
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I don’t have words to describe what I saw.
“ I don’t have words to describe what I saw, nor can I assimilate it. I felt sadness, anger and nausea.” Vidalina Morales from ADES (Associacion de Desarrollo Economico y Social) in El Salvador was...
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Now Available! Groundbreaking Study on Free, Prior and Informed Consent
Participants at a CEIBA community consultation “Territory for us as Indigenous peoples is the space where we live – the social, natural, cultural, political space where we exist. It’s where we...
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Up for Debate – help put women’s rights on election radar
Up for Debate is an alliance of more than 120 community groups, women’s organizations and allies from across Canada, including KAIROS, that is committed to making gender justice and women’s human...
View ArticleThe women who defend the community and land
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Good Things Can Come to Those Who Wait—and Weep by Stephen Bede Scharper
Spirited Reflection — Sunday, April 5, 2015 Stephen Bede Scharper, Roman Catholic, is a former editor with Orbis Books and Novalis Publishing, and currently associate professor of environment and...
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KAIROS calls on the Government of Canada to implement recommendations to end...
The recent acquittal of the man accused of Cindy Gladue’s murder sparked protest rallies across the country as many people saw the decision as yet another example of how Canada’s justice system is...
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What is at Stake for Indigenous Women when FPIC is not respected?
Vernie Diano from Innabuyog, a KAIROS partner in the Philippines, attended the 59th session of the UN Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) in New York last month. In the following statement, made at...
View ArticleGendered Impacts: Indigenous Women and Resource Extraction
The report highlights KAIROS' work with Indigenous women and organizations to increase understanding and awareness of how resource extraction impacts Indigenous women, as well as the role of women in...
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A Time for Hope and Solidarity
Guatemalan partner Ana Guadalupe Matzir Miculax joined us in Ottawa for the KAIROS Time for Reconciliation gathering and the closing ceremony of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), May...
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Reflection on my participation in the TRC: A time of deep gratitude and hope
By Ana Guadalupe Matzir Miculax The histories of Guatemala and Canada are similar – histories of trying to erase our customs, languages, traditional clothing and dance; our way of life and world view;...
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Reflection on the TRC: Canada MUST make reconciliation happen with the same...
Vernie Diano beside the Witness Blanket, a National Monument to recognize the atrocities of Indian Residential Schools By Vernie Diano During the mass blanket exercise hosted by KAIROS on the grounds...
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Partners Reflect on the TRC
KAIROS partners Vernie Diano from Innabuyog in the Philippines and Ana Guadalupe Matzir Miculax from CEIBA in Guatemala were in Ottawa for KAIROS’ Time for Reconciliation gathering and the Truth and...
View ArticleSAVE THE DATE! Gendered Impacts: Indigenous Women speak about Resource...
“ In a lot of countries women are on the frontline of this resistance and logically so because they are the ones who know by heart and by their Indigenous knowledge how mining, for example, is going to...
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Women of courage gather in the Philippines to discuss mining and its impacts
KAIROS is excited to support the participation of Indigenous women from Canada and Ecuador in the International People’s Conference on Mining in the Philippines, July 30-August 1, as well as in...
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Final Declaration and Action Points from Gendered Impacts workshop at...
Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) have a very strong connection with their lands and territories, which they describe as a source of life. In addition, the environmental damage generated by the...
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A trip to Mankayan, a mining town in the mountains of the Philippines
By Meeka Otway Our time in the Philippines has been very intense. We have been here less than two weeks and we have already visited communities in Mankayan, Cordillera and participated in the 3-day...
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Bringing the experience of Latin American women to the International Peoples...
By Gloria Chicaiza The International Peoples Conference on Mining (IPCM) in the Philippines took place amongst a multitude of symbolic and cultural acts. The event was highly participatory and...
View ArticleHow Can Canada Help End Sexual Violence in Conflict?
On June 11-13, survivors of sexual violence will gather with governments and civil society groups for the first ever Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, hosted in London by the UK...
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