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 […]
February 14, 2020
In response to the current high profile around the Wet’suwet’en land defense, many Friends and CFSC supporters have reached out to us in recent days and […]
January 15, 2020
The following open letter was sent to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister Dear Ministers, Greetings from Canadian Friends Service Committee, the peace and […]
January 10, 2020
Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) expresses deep concern for the current volatile situation escalating in Wet’suwet’en territory. This is the second year of increased threats on […]
December 10, 2019
December 10th is Human Rights Day, acknowledged each year on the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.This year, CFSC staff Jennifer […]