MEDIA RELEASE Canada must respect the right of Indigenous Peoples to make decisions about resource development on their lands Indigenous Peoples’, human rights, and faith […]
At a session of Canadian Yearly Meeting on August 22nd, Friends were in deep and immediate unity that the Doctrine of Discovery must be repudiated by […]
Photo credit Mary Kosta In a recent article in the Montreal Gazette (10 June 2013), the Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt is reported as denying that […]
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Twelfth session New York, 20 – 31 May 2013 Agenda Item 7: Human Rights Study on the extent of violence against […]
Canada’s human rights record just underwent a peer review process under the United Nations Human Rights Council. A number of organizations, including CFSC, have issued this […]
We joined with over 20 Indigenous organizations and other supporters to work on and endorse a submission about Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity for […]
On this, International Conscientious Objectors Day (May 15th), The Canadian Council of Churches’ Commission on Justice and Peace has released a letter that it wrote to […]
There is a critical need to affirm and safeguard the customary land and resource rights of Indigenous peoples – especially in the context of food security. […]