September 26, 2020
Canada is a leader for peace on the world stage… isn’t it? While that may be the image of Canada in the popular imagination, did you […]
September 17, 2020
The following is an open letter sent to the Prime Minister by over thirty groups. Today marks the one-year anniversary of Canada’s accession to the Arms […]
July 8, 2020
CFSC has joined a large group of civil liberties and privacy advocates in calling for a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by Canada’s […]
June 23, 2020
Statement on police violence and the need for governments to actively involve Indigenous peoples in responses. Two weeks ago, Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC), the peace […]
June 9, 2020
At Canadian Yearly Meeting and Canadian Friends Service Committee we hear the calls in the streets and in the media for an end to racial violence […]
May 15, 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 […]
April 17, 2020
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 […]
April 14, 2020
Joint statement on COVID-19 pandemic and Indigenous peoples’ human rights During the extreme challenges caused by the current threat of the coronavirus, our Nations and organizations […]
February 20, 2020
In the last 50 years, around 500,000 Canadians have received a pardon or record suspension for a crime. Of those, 95% have remained crime-free in […]