Event video: Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
CFSC helped organize a side event at the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples meeting in Geneva at the beginning of July. Here’s the event poster: Watch a recording of the event: Learn more about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
CFSC on Project Save The World podcast
Our Communications Coordinator Matt Legge joined Metta Spencer’s “Project Save The World” podcast together with guests Liz Carmichael (professor at Oxford University) and Rachel Small (World Beyond War’s Coordinator in Canada). It was a wide-ranging discussion beginning briefly on protests against Canada’s largest weapons fair, followed by a longer disagreement about the Queen of England’s … read more
Note submitted to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Earlier this month CFSC staff Nancy Russell joined other members of civil society in meeting with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Nancy took the opportunity to highlight the issues identified in our submission below. Questions that we drew to the attention of the Committee on the Rights of the Child … read more
Our newest blog post for Psychology Today looks at the crucial role that emotions play in conflicts. Read on for some interesting research on what emotions are and how to engage with them to build understanding during difficult conversations. Here’s an excerpt: It’s hard to avoid messages that tell you what you “should” feel. “You … read more
CFSC’s office in Friends House Toronto. We are located on the traditional territory of the Wendat, Petun, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This land has been the site of
human activity for 15,000 years and is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum, a
sacred treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabek.
