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		<title>CFSC Welcomes Churches’ Support for Conscientious Objectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Orion Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this, International Conscientious Objectors Day (May 15th), The Canadian Council of Churches’ Commission on Justice and Peace has released a letter that it wrote to the Jason Kenney, the Minister of Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism asking “the Government of Canada to either allow the US war resisters to stay in Canada on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues – Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Orion Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this the 11th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII), the “issues” to be discussed during the session include the rights of Indigenous peoples to food and food sovereignty, the situation of Indigenous peoples in places such as Central and Eastern Europe, the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples slated for 2014, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFSC at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Orion Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFSC staff and volunteers are at the UN Headquarters in Manhattan area of New York City for two weeks in May 2012, along with about 1500 other people from around the world, mostly Indigenous Peoples, to explore common concerns. This year&#8217;s Forum is focused on the Doctrine of Discovery. (Pictured: Monica Walters-Field, CFSC volunteer, second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Chief addresses UN Permanent Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFSC joins the Assembly of First Nations and other partners in a statement to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on the subject of the Doctrine of Discovery. This statement was presented by National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo May 7, 2012. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>FAO Voluntary Guidelines need redress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EditorJPRESTON</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a critical need to affirm and safeguard the customary land and resource rights of Indigenous peoples – especially in the context of food security.  Yet, as currently drafted, the 2012 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Guidelines could serve to seriously undermine the rights of Indigenous peoples globally and weaken the international human rights system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN calls on Canada for “comprehensive strategy” to uphold the human rights of Indigenous peoples</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EditorJPRESTON</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International Canada  Amnistie Canada  Assembly of First Nations  Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers)  Chiefs of Ontario   Grand Council of  the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)  Haudenosaunee of Kanehsatà:ke KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives  MiningWatch Canada  Treaty Four First Nations &#160; NEWS RELEASE UN Committee calls for “comprehensive strategy” to uphold the human rights of Indigenous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopes for Democracy in the DRC Must be Respected!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianne Broughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Development and Peace, L’Entraide missionnaire inc. and CFSC issued a joint press release today.  We were very glad to be able to speak with one voice to insist that the international community stand solidly with the Congolese people by demanding that the election results be tabulated fairly and transparently.  Ignoring the reports of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Attiwapiskat Crisis: Urgent Action Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urgent action needed to improve living conditions in Aboriginal communities: Canada must meet its human rights obligations In a joint statement addressing issues related to the current crisis in Attiwapiskat (December 8th, 2011), CFSC, Amnesty and KAIROS have called on the Government of Canada to work in good faith with the community of Attiwapiskat to address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit Uganda Vicariously</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianne Broughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheila Havard&#8217;s entire chronicle of her visit to the Bududa Learning Centre, a CFSC partner organization in Uganda, during November 2011, is now posted on our Bududa page.  Sheila Havard is a member of the CFSC board of directors, and of Coldstream Monthly Meeting. Sheila&#8217;s Havard&#8217;s letters from Africa &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>CFSC’s D. R . Congo Team Officially Recognized as Election Observers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gianne Broughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Election Day Report is In! ( for daily updates, go to http://quakerservice.ca/our-work/peace/project-muinda/) On Sunday, Nov. 20, we received confirmation that 4 of our team had already received official accreditation from D. R. Congo&#8217;s Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante as election observers for the predential elections, slated for November 28, 2011. The final member of the [...]]]></description>
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