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The Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2   Dear Prime Minister, We are a range of organizations […]

Indigenous peoples’ organizations and human rights groups are outraged that the federal government used a high level United Nations forum on Indigenous rights as an opportunity […]

Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias Executive Secretary Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity United Nations Environment Programme   Dear Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza […]

Read an FAQ about our positions on boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS).   In 2009 Canadian Friends were in unity on a minute (official position) about Israel/Palestine […]

Canadian Friends Service Committee and our partner Amnesty International have written an open letter expressing concerns around the organizing of the high level segment of the […]

“All bloody principles and practices we do utterly deny, with all outward wars, and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any […]

Canadian Friends Service Committee and Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends joined with other faith leaders in a statement outlining their concern for […]

Joint statement of Canadian Friends Service Committee and Amnesty International Canada   Amnesty International Canada and Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) extend our congratulations to the […]

  Canada’s failure to uphold the human rights of Indigenous peoples in its approval of Northern Gateway BC Assembly of First Nations, First Nations Summit, Union […]