Join the Rally & March: Rights, Regularization, Status for All!
September 6, 2022
The Migrant Workers Alliance is building a massive mobilization on Sunday, September 18 in cities across Canada.Please join this unprecedented opportunity to win permanent resident status for nearly 1.7 million migrants and stop deportations. You are encouraged to organize a…
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Advocating against Environmental Racism
September 6, 2022
Re. Bill C-226, An Act Respecting the Development of a National Strategy to Assess, Prevent and Address Environmental Racism and To Advance Environmental Justice For the third time, a Member of Parliament has tabled a bill to address environmental racism and…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Week 2 – Canada – Complicity and Action
September 5, 2022
During the second week of Climate Action Month KAIROS will focus on Canadian actions that will help decolonize climate action. What Canada and Canadians do has global impacts. As we learn more and more about the historical and current systems that…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Confessing our Ecological Debt in the Season of Creation
September 4, 2022
Giraffes tell me the Creator has a sense of humour. Hovering hummingbirds fascinate me with their tiny tongues slurping deep in the bowels of a flower. Wildflowers in all shades of colour grow in every terrestrial ecosystem. Complex ecosystems knit…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
What does it take to get climate justice?
September 3, 2022
During COP22, held in Marrakech in 2016, German labour unions organized a side event called “No jobs on a dead planet.” Side events are sessions usually organized by civil society organizations that run separately from government speeches and negotiations. The labour…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Decolonizing Ourselves: Healing Haunted Histories
September 2, 2022
On August 27, 2022, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation hosted a group of 45 (mostly) settlers, reflecting on the theme of “Decolonizing Ourselves: Healing Haunted Histories.” The event’s title was drawn from the book by Elaine Enns and Ched Meyers, Healing Haunted…
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Decolonizing Climate Action
September 2, 2022
Decolonizing climate action begins with the recognition that colonialism is still active in our world. Colonialism is when one country exerts full or partial control over another country. That control could be military, political, bureaucratic, economic or the ruling ideas…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
KAIROS and Partners at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches
September 1, 2022
A delegation of KAIROS staff, and two representatives of the KAIROS Women of Courage: Women Peace and Security (WPS) partners from South Sudan and Palestine, are currently participating at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Décoloniser l’action climatique dans le cadre du Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS
September 1, 2022
Ce 4ème évènement annuel aborde 5 thèmes en 5 semaines, avec une grande variété de ressources et d’actions (Toronto – Traité No13 avec les Mississaugas de Credit) – Décoloniser l’action climatique, voilà le thème du 4ème Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS,…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, En français
Decolonizing climate action underscores KAIROS Climate Action Month
September 1, 2022
4th annual event covers 5 themes in 5 weeks with rich supply of resources & actions (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – Decolonizing climate action will underscore KAIROS’ 4th annual Climate Action Month, which launches September…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Week 1 – The Season of Creation
September 1, 2022
As Climate Action Month begins, we take time to join people around the world for the start of “the Season of Creation.” The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox churches began this initiative last decade and was joined by the…
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5 semaines, 5 regards, un mois pour apprendre et agir Du 1er au 30 septembre
August 30, 2022
Le thème pour 2022 : décoloniser l’action climatique.Le Mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en 2022 met l’accent sur l’écoute des peuples et des communautés trop souvent ignorées quand on parle de la crise climatique. Pour cette quatrième édition du Mois…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, En français
Prier, plaider, apprendre, réfléchir : 4 événements pour le mois du climat
August 24, 2022
Décoloniser l’action climatique pour souligner le mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en septembre (Toronto – Traité No13 avec les Mississaugas de Credit) – Pour le mois de l’action climatique de KAIROS en septembre, nous présentons quatre événements en ligne, pour prier,…
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Pray, advocate, learn, reflect: 4 events announced for climate month
August 24, 2022
Media Advisory: Decolonizing climate action to underscore KAIROS Climate Action Month this September (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – Four online events designed to help people pray, advocate, learn and reflect, particularly on the theme of…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Media Releases
Collaboration secures funding for Sixties Scoop Network
August 12, 2022
We are excited to announce the Sixties Scoop Network (SSN) in collaboration with KAIROS Canada has successfully secured funding from the Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation. As a recipient, this funding will further support the Bigwen 60s Scoop Healing Initiatives and…
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ICHRP calls for continued ICC investigation of Duterte’s crimes against humanity in the wake of government attempts to shield perpetrators
August 4, 2022
ICHRP calls for continued ICC investigation of Duterte’s crimes against humanity in the wake of Marcos government’s attempts to shield perpetrators by refusing to rejoin Refusal of the Marcos Administration to rejoin the ICC shields Duterte and his policies of…
Post filed in: Asia-Pacific
Read all about it! Women Peace and Security at a Glance report for Year Four
August 3, 2022
Le français et l’espagnol suivent. Le siguen el francés y el español.The At a Glance report for Year 4 of the KAIROS Women of Courage: Women Peace and Security program is now available in English, French and Spanish. The report highlights the critical work of KAIROS partners – grassroots women peacebuilders in…
Post filed in: En Español, En français, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Decolonizing climate action to underscore KAIROS Climate Action Month
August 3, 2022
4th annual event covers 5 themes in 5 weeks with rich supply of resources & actions (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – Decolonizing climate action will underscore KAIROS’ 4th annual Climate Action Month, which launches September…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Media Releases
The call to anti-racism is a call to transformation
July 27, 2022
Acknowledging Indigenous territoryI write to you from Treaty One Territory: the land of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. I acknowledge that from time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have lived as stewards and…
Post filed in: Spirited Reflections
KAIROS joins ICHRP in calling on Canada to accompany Maria Ressa and other human rights defenders in the Philippines
July 26, 2022
Maria Ressa, a Nobel Prize laureate and journalist, faces ongoing criminalization by the Philippines government after losing her appeal against the false conviction of cyber-libel. KAIROS joins the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-Canada) and numerous national…
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Congratulations to the OFP, KAIROS partner in Colombia, on their 50th Anniversary
July 21, 2022
Today, July 21 2022, the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), a KAIROS Women, Peace and Security partner in Colombia, celebrates its 50th anniversary –50 years of working with communities and grassroots women in the Magdelana Medio region to build just, sustainable and…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Latin America
Sign the petition in support of Indian Day School survivors
June 28, 2022
Federal Indian Day School Survivors need your help.A Class Action lawsuit seeks compensation for damages and abuses suffered by all Indian Day School students who were forced to attend Indian Day Schools and who were excluded from the Indian Residential…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
Indigenous peoples call for right to protect land, nature and livelihood in Ecuador
June 27, 2022
KAIROS is gravely concerned about reports, from partners in Ecuador, of repression, arbitrary detention and arrests of Indigenous leaders, organizations and allies. This government crackdown is in response to a national strike, organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Latin America
Honouring Indigenous Peoples on this Day
June 21, 2022
Kwey KakinaAsema niwi bigidnāKichi Mīgwech ndi kid bīdābung ensa kījebKichi Mīgwech ndi kid ondji shki kījigakNi Kichi Mīgwechwindam ondji bimādiziwinNi Kichi Mīgwechwindam kina gegō kwenādjiwangKichi Mīgwech ndi kid ondji asemā gamijyang wii ayamiyewiyāongHello allToday I offer my tobaccoI say thank…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
KAIROS urges House Leaders to expedite environmental racism bill
June 15, 2022
La version en français suit.KAIROS has joined several environmental organizations including the Canadian Coalition for Environmental and Climate Justice, David Suzuki Foundation and Equiterre in signing a letter to the Parliamentary House Leaders, urging them to co-operate to expedite passage of…
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Church reflections on anniversary of unmarked burial findings
June 1, 2022
Please contact the 24-Hour Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419 if you require emotional support. For more information and support, visit the First Nations Health Authority.A year ago, on May 27 the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that 215 unmarked graves had been located on…
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Pope’s July visit to Canada focused on Indigenous healing and reconciliation
June 1, 2022
On May 13, the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Francis, “having accepted invitations from civil and ecclesiastical authorities, as well as the Indigenous communities,” will travel to Canada from July 24 – 30 and visit the cities of…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
