Build your peace skills: join our online workshop series for free
Canadian Friends Service Committee is offering a free interactive workshop series to study and do activities from our award-winning book Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Divison. The series will help participants to learn from one another and to develop our peace skills, skills that we can use in … read more
COVID-19, editing humans, and more: synthetic biology update 2020
The synthetic biology update 2020 is here! Once a year we share with you a brief, simple, and non-technical rundown of the key issues making headlines in the weird world of synthetic biology. Synthetic what? It’s already happening. Many scientists, biohackers, and corporations are trying to create novel life forms. They want to move from … read more
CFSC’s book wins a Nautilus Book Award
We’re please to announce that our book Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division just won a Nautilus Book Award in the category of Social Change and Social Justice! With the slogan “better books for a better world” the Nautilus Book Awards recognize books that make a difference and … read more
Massive call to respect human rights while responding to COVID-19
We are one of 157 organizations and 144 individual experts who wrote to the government of Canada about our concern for human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. A call for human rights oversight of government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Regard for human rights is essential in times of crisis. Human rights principles provide a … 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.
