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All links listed will take you to external sites. KAIROS is not responsible for the content of external sites, and a link to a site does not indicate endorsement of that site’s content, or its organisation’s point of view. Links are intended to offer additional information and perspectives related to KAIROS’ areas of work, and to the work of its partners. We generally link only to partner, not for profit, NGO, or church groups.
Please email us requests for links and reports of broken links.
Contents
- Aboriginal Rights
- Alternative media
- Anti-poverty
- Climate change
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Debt
- Fair Trade
- Global Economic Justice
- HIV and AIDS
- International Human Rights
- KAIROS member churches, communities and agencies
- Mining and resource extraction
- Partnerships within KAIROS’ global partners program
- Peace and disarmament
- Refugees and Migrants
- Resources—KAIROS
- Trade
- Water
See our Resource Catalogue for resources such as the book Blind Spots, the kit So Long as the Sun Rises and the River Flows, and selected editions of the magazine Solidarité. And see KAIROS’ own Aboriginal rights section.
Aboriginal/ First Nations/ Metis/ Inuit groups
Amnesty International (Canada) : focus on Indigenous Peoples
http://www.amnesty.ca/themes/indigenous_overview.php
Anglican Council of Indigenous People (ACIP)
www.anglican.ca/about/committees/acip/
Assembly of First Nations
www.afn.ca
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs
www.manitobachiefs.com
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs
www.apcfnc.ca
Chiefs of Ontario
www.chiefs-of-ontario.org
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
www.abo-peoples.org
Crees of Quebec
www.gcc.c
Daniel Paul (Mi’kmaq elder and author)
www.danielnpaul.com/
Federation of Saskatchewan Nations (FSIN)
www.fsin.com
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
www.fncfcs.com
First Nations Summit (BC)
www.fns.bc.ca
Native Women’s Association of Canada
www.nwac-hq.org/
United Church of Canada: Worship resource on Aboriginal rights
http://www.united-church.ca/worship/firstnations
Aboriginal media and communications
Aboriginal Radio
http://www.aboriginalradio.com
Gathering Place First Nations Canadian News
www.gatheringplacefirstnationscanews.com
Global Indigenous rights
Cultural Survival
www.cs.org/
Aboriginal Law and Legislation
www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm
Non-Aboriginal solidarity groups
Aboriginal Rights Coalition BC:
arcbc.tripod.com
Bill’s Aboriginal Links:
www.bloorstreet.com/300block/aborl.htm
Coalition for A Public Inquiry Into Ipperwash
www.web.net/~inquiry/main.htm
Friends of the Lubicon:
www.tao.ca/~fol
Turning Point: Native Peoples and Newcomers Online:
www.turning-point.ca
United Church of Canada:
www.united-church.ca/aboriginal
Government
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/sg/sgmm_e.html
Top
of pageAlternative (and semi-alternative) media
Don’t see yourself here and think you should? Email us (No guarantees, though.)
Briarpatch:
www.briarpatchmagazine.com/
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
www.cbc.ca
Citizen Shift: National Film Board, multimedia site.
http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info
Connexions.org:
www.connexions.org
Indymedia (global page, linking to country and regional pages):
www.indymedia.org
New Internationalist:
www.newint.org/
No-Nonsense Guides (a great summaries of complex issues!)
http://www.btlbooks.com/New_Titles/no-nonsense.htm
OneWorld:
www.oneworld.net/
Our Times (Independent Labour Magazine):
www.ourtimes.ca/
Rabble: News for the rest of us:
www.rabble.ca
THIS Magazine:
www.thismagazine.ca/
ZNet (extensive independent analysis of many global issues):
www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm
See also KAIROS’ own Anti poverty and funding section.
Campaign 2000:
www.campaign2000.ca
Campaign Against Child Poverty:
www.childpoverty.com/
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
www.policyalternatives.ca
Canadian Council on Social Development:
www.ccsd.ca
Centre for Social Justice:
www.socialjustice.org/
Citizens for Public Justice:
www.cpj.ca
Collectif pour un Québec sans pauvreté (Québec):
www.pauvrete.qc.ca/
Community Low Income Center (Saskatchewan)
www.weyburnclic.com
Falling Fortunes:
http://www.fallingfortunes.ca
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
http://www.whiteband.org
Inter-Faith Social Assistance Reform Committee (Ontario)
www.isarc.ca
Low-income Families Together (Ontario):
www.lift.to/
Make Poverty History (Canada)
www.makepovertyhistory.ca/
Make Poverty History (International):
www.makepovertyhistory.org/
Micah Challenge:
www.micahchallenge.ca/
National Anti-Poverty Organization:
www.napo-onap.ca
Ontario Tenants Rights:
www.ontariotenants.ca
PovNet:
www.povnet.org/
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee: www.tdrc.net
Vibrant Communities
www.vibrantcommunities.ca
Corporate social responsibility
See also KAIROS’ own corporate social responsibility section.
Shareholder Activism
Please note: KAIROS produces an occasional shareholder activism newsletter and alert. Please email us if you would like to sign up to this e-list.
Amnesty International Canada
http://www.amnesty.ca
Bench Marks Foundation of South Africa
http://www.bench-marks.org
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
http://www.cbsr.ca
Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy
http://www.ethicscentre.ca
Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission
http://www.corporate-accountability.ca
Global Reporting Initiative
http://www.globalreporting.org
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org
Investor Responsibility Research Center
http://www.irrc.org
Michael Jantzi Research Associates
http://www.mjra-jsi.com
Regroupement pour la responsabilité sociale des entreprises
http://www.rrse.org
Shareholder Association for Research and Education
http://www.share.ca
Social Investment Forum (US)
http://www.socialinvest.org
Social Investment Organization
http://www.socialinvestment.ca
TransFair Canada
http://www.transfair.ca
Transparency International Canada
http://www.transparency.ca
UK Social Investment Forum
http://www.uksif.org
United Nations Global Compact
http://www.unglobalcompact.org
See also KAIROS’ own ecology page, including climate change and energy efficiency.
Climate Action Network - Reseau Action Climat – Canada (CANet)
www.climateactionnetwork.ca
Canadian Environmental Network (CEN):
www.cen-rce.org
Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP):
www.cielap.org
CBC Backgrounder on Kyoto:
www.cbc.ca/news/background/kyoto/
Canada Green Buildings Council:
www.cagbc.org
Climate for Change project:
www.climateforchange.ca/
David Suzuki Foundation’s climate change page:
www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/
Government of Canada ecoACTION:
www.climatechange.gc.ca
The Green Communities Association:
www.gca.ca
Greenpeace International: 12 personal steps to cut global warming
www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/take_action/12_steps
It’s Getting Hot in Here youth movement:
itsgettinghotinhere.org/
The Office of Energy Efficiency of Natural Resources Canada:
oee.nrcan.gc.ca/commercial/existing.cfm?text=N&printview=N
Pembina Institute:
www.pembina.org/climate-change/index.php
Re-energise: KAIROS’ 2007-2010 education for action campaign.
www.re-energise.org or the main KAIROS site.
StopESSO Campaign:
www.stopesso.ca
World Council of Churches: Climate change program:
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/earthdocs.html#cc
World Council of Churches:
http://
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/ecology.html
Youth Climate Change Conference:
www.yc3.net
Ecology: general sites. See also Climate change, Energy efficiency, and water.
Greenpeace Canada: Eco-tips for your household series
www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/take-action/greentips
World Council of Churches:
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/ecology.html
See KAIROS’ own network section and campaign section.
Fair Trade (Please note: We do not post links to for-profit businesses!)
DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE:
www.devp.org/devpme/eng/fairtrade-eng.html
Forest Stewardship Council of Canada:
www.fsccanada.org
Maquila Solidarity Network:
www.maquilasolidarity.org
Oxfam Canada: Fair Trade Coffee Campaign:
www.oxfam.ca/campaigns/fairTrade.htm
Ten Thousand Villages:
www.tenthousandvillages.com/
Transfair Canada:
www.transfair.ca
Zatoun (fair trade olive oil and Palestinian advocacy group)
Debt
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
www.policyalternatives.ca/
Halifax Initiative:
www.halifaxinitiative.org
Jubilee South
www.jubileesouth.org/
Asia Pacific Research Network:
www.aprnet.org
Common Frontiers:
www.commonfrontiers.ca
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance:
www.e-alliance.ch
Halifax Initiative:
www.halifaxinitiative.org
Hemispheric Social Alliance:
www.asc-hsa.org
Réseau Québécois sur l’integration continentale (RQIC):
www.rqic.alternatives.ca
Third World Network Africa:
www.twnafrica.org
Via Campesina:
www.viacampesina.org
Global Partnerships Resources and Links
Partners of KAIROS
African Development Education Network
WWW.aden.org.zw
New Sudan Council of Churchesé
www.Nsccnet.org
Third World Network Africa
www.twnafrica.org
JATAM Mining Advocacy Network (Indonesia)
www.jatam.org
Yakoma- PGI(Social Communication Foundation - Communion of Churches
in Indonesia)
www.yakoma.net
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM)(Hong Kong)
www.apmm.cjb.net
Committee for Asian Women (Thailand)
caw.jinbo.net
IBON Foundation, Inc. (Philippines)
www.ibon.org
Centro de Estudios Ecumenicos/Centre of Ecumenical Studies (Mexico)
www.estudiosecumenicos.org.mx
Movement for Peace, Justice and Dignity (Mexico)
www.porlapaz.org.mx
Permanent Assembly of Civil Society for Peace (Colombia)
www.porlapaz.org.co
No to FTAA /Not to ALCA
www.noalca.org
Centro de Investigacion Economicos y Politicas de Accion Comunitaria
(CIEPAC)
www.ciepac.org
Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas (COMPA)
www.compasite.com
Ecological Debt Campaign (Acción Ecológica)
www.ecuanex.net.ec/accion
Middle East: Palestine- Israel
(Note: * denotes a KAIROS partner)
*Bat Shalom
http://www.batshalom.org
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human
Rights and the Occupied Territories
www.btselem.org
Canadian Government Official Position on the Middle East
http://dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle_east/can_policy-en.asp
Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
(World Council of Churches)
www.eappi.org
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
http://www.icahd.org/eng
*Jerusalem Center For Women
http://www.j-c-w.org
*Middle Eastern Council of Churches
http://www.mec-churches.org
The Parent’s Circle - Families Forum
http://www.theparentscircle.com
Palestine Fair Trade Association
www.palestinefairtrade.org
*Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center
http://www.sabeel.org
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA)
http://www.ochaopt.org
Advocacy and peace organisations
Ecumenical Accompaniment Program (World Council of Churches)
www.eappi.org
European Jews for a Just Peace
www.ejjp.org
Israel Coalition against House Demolition
www.icahd.org
Presbyterian Church (USA) Statements on Ending the Occupation and
Divestment:
www.pcusa.org/israelandjewishrelations/divestment.htm
Women in Black
http://www.womeninblack.net
Christian Statements:
"Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center document: A
Nonviolent Response to the Occupation: A Call for Morally Responsible
Investment”:
www.fosna.org/doc/Sabeel's%20Call%20for%20Morally%20Responsible%20Investment.doc.
Global Ministries [the Common Board of the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ) and United Church of Christ] document “The Palestinians,
Israel, and the Churches' Economic Leverage”:
www.globalministries.org/mee/leverage.pdf 
Episcopal Church in the United States of America:
www.episcopalchurch.org/1866_54100_ENG_HTM.htm
The Network of Christian Organizations in Bethlehem district (NCOB)
Statement:
www.qumsiyeh.org/ncobstatement
Jewish Voice for Peace in support of divestment:
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/pressRelease.jsp?press_release_KEY=47&t=press.dwt
Not in My Name Statement in support of Selective Divestment:
http://www.nimn.org/Resources/divestments/000450.php?section=Divestments
New Profile: Movement for the Civilization of Israeli Society:
http://www.newprofile.org/showdata.asp?pid=774&language=en
XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto (August 13-18, 2006):
www.aids2006.org
Canadian AIDS Society:
www.cdnaids.ca
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE):
www.catie.ca/e/index.html
Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network:
www.caan.ca/english/home.htm
Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre:
www.aidssida.cpha.ca/english/res_e/electr_e.htm
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network:
www.aidslaw.ca/home.htm
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance:
www.e-alliance.ch
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
www.crwrc.org/development/aids.html
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria:
www.theglobalfund.org
Inter Agency Coalition on AIDS and Development:
www.icad-cisd.com/content/home.cfm?lang=e
Mennonite Central Committee:
www.mcc.org/aids
Presbyterian World Service and Development’s Towards a World Without
Aids Program
www.presbyterian.ca/pwsd/aworldwithoutaids/index.html
The Primate’s World Relief and Development’s Partnership for Life
Initiative
www.pwrdf.org/our-work/hivaids-initiative
United Church of Canada Beads of Hope:
www.united-church.ca/beads
The United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
Global advocacy
Africa Files
www.africafiles.org
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/comision.html
Amnesty International (global):
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International (Canada):
www.amnesty.ca
Derechos: Impunity Information
www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/eng.html
Equitas (formerly the Canadian Human Rights Foundation):
www.equitas.org/index_en.php
Human Rights in Latin America:
www.derechos.org/nizkor/eng.html
Human Rights Internet:
www.hri.ca
Human Rights Watch:
www.hrw.org
International Crisis Group:
www.crisisweb.org
International Criminal Court:
www.un.org/icc/
International Red Cross:
www.icrc.org/
Partners in Human Rights Education
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/education/pihre/index.html
Sudan Net:
www.sudan.net
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
www.unhchr.ch
UNICEF:
www.unicef.org/
United Nations:
www.un.org
United Nations High Commission for Refugees:
www.unhcr.ch
The Organization of American States:
www.oas.org/OASpage/humanrights.htm
World Organization Against Torture:
www.omct.org
Mining and resource extraction
Canada
Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network: Mining the Connections Campaign:
http://www.arsn.ca/mining_campaign.htm
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statement: Practices by Canadian mining companies in other countries raise concerns: http://www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/2443/1152/lang,eng
Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability and civil society
participation in government roundtables (Fall 2006):
http://www.halifaxinitiative.org/index.php/CNCA_Roundtables
DEVELOPMENT and PEACE: Resource extraction campaign:
http://www.devp.org/devpme/eng/education/educationcampaign-eng.html
Government Website on the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries: http://international.gc.ca/cip-pic/current_discussions/csr-roundtables-en.asp
InterPares (Canada) photo essay on mining in Ghana
http://www.interpares.ca/en/photo_essay/5/index.php
Mining Watch Canada: www.miningwatch.ca (see especially: Regulating Canadian Mining Companies Operating Internationally: background documents http://www.miningwatch.ca/index.php?/Placer_Dome/Ugly_Cdn_docs)
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade 14th
report (June 2005):
http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/cmte/committeepublication.aspx?com=8979&lang=1&sourceid=122762
Overseas
African Civil Society statement on Canadian mining operations
http://www.twnafrica.org/news_detail.asp?twnID=928
CAFOD UK: Unearth Justice campaign
http://www.cafod.org.uk/get_involved/campaigning/unearth_justice
Earthworks (US campaign against mining and drilling)
http://www.earthworksaction.org/home.cfm
Friends of the Earth International: mining page
http://www.foei.org/mining/index.html
No Dirty Gold campaign:
http://www.nodirtygold.org
Canadian Peace Alliance
www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html
Christian Peacemaker Teams:
www.cpt.org
COAT (Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade):
coat.ncf.ca/
Peace Brigades International (Canada):
www.web.ca/~pbican/
Project Ploughshares:
www.ploughshares.ca
Please see our resources catalogue for resources on refugees and migrants, including "Welcoming Uprooted People Post 9-11" and selected editions of the Solidarite newsletter. If you know of community-based websites to which we should link, please contact the Web team.
Amnesty International:
www.amnesty.ca
Canadian Council for Refugees:
www.web.net/~ccr/
Citizens for Public Justice: Refugee program:
www.cpj.ca
December 18 Web Portal on Migrant Rights:
www.december18.net/web/general/start.php
Department of Citizenship and Immigration – Canada Refugee Protection
www.cic.gc.ca/ref-protection
Human Rights Watch:
www.hrw.org
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada:
www.irb.gc.ca
International Organization for Migration:
www.iom.int
Justicia for Migrant Workers:
www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/resources.htm
Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund:
www.pwrdf.org/our-work/emergency-refugee-program/refugees/
The United Church of Canada: Resource on refugees and sponsorship:
www.united-church.ca/migration/overview.shtm
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
www.unhcr.ch
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children:
www.womenscommission.org
World Council of Churches Uprooted People Newsletter
www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/international/uprooted/index-e.html
- NGOs, community groups and campaigns
- Youth and children
- Government and United Nations
- Research and analysis
- Bottled water
(see also our 2005-2007 campaign on water)
NGOs, community groups and campaigns
The Blue Planet Project:
www.blueplanetproject.net/english
The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace:
www.devp.org
Council of Canadians Water Campaign:
www.canadians.org/
Check out their water campaign under Contents/ Water
The Freshwater Society: http://www.freshwater.org/water_facts.html
Friends of the Earth Canada:
www.foecanada.org
(Look under Campaigns/ Safe Water Campaign)
The Listerv for water activists: Sign on:
http://list.web.net/lists/listsinfo/wateract-l
Mennonite Central Committee photo gallery on water:
www.mcc.org/gallery/04_02/index.html
Mother Earth Water Walkers:
www.motherearthwaterwalk.com/index2.htm
OXFAM UK: Water for all homepage:
www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/water/
Polaris Institute Water Page:
www.polarisinstitute.org
Potters for Peace water filter project:
http://s189535770.onlinehome.us/pottersforpeace
Sierra Legal Water Page:
www.sierralegal.org/water.html
Sierra Club Atlantic: Corporate Privatization education page:
www.sierraclub.ca/atlantic/water/index.html
Stop Corporate Abuse—bottled water campaign:
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/page1353.cfm
United Church of Canada: Water Focus
www.united-church.ca/waterfocus
www.united-church.ca/ecology/water
United Church: Global water report:
www.united-church.ca/waterfocus/pdf/report.pdf
Water Aid:
www.wateraid.org.uk/
The Water Barons:
www.publicintegrity.org/water
Water Governance and Privatization—research and analysis.
www.geog.ubc.ca/~bakker/water.htm
Water: Life before Profit
www.devp.org/testA/current.htm
Just Youth: DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE:
youth.devp.org/aframes.html
UN Cyber School bus water quiz:
cyberschoolbus.un.org/waterquiz/waterquiz4/index.asp
UNICEF youth page: Water Game
www.unicef.org/voy/explore/rights/explore_1818.html
Environment Canada:
www.ec.gc.ca/water/
Information about Canada's water resources
Government of Canada: Freshwater site
www.ec.gc.ca/water/e_main.html
UN Freshwater page:
www.wateryear2003.org/
UNESCO Water Portal
www.unesco.org/water/
UNESCO World Water Day homepage:
www.unesco.org/water/water_celebrations/index.shtml
The Water Observatory:
www.waterobservatory.org/
British Broadcasting Corporation: Water Crisis page
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm
CBC: Fifth Estate program: Dead in the Water
www.cbc.ca/fifth/deadinthewater/index.html
The Canadian Council for Public Private Partnership
www.pppcouncil.ca
Global Water Policy Project
www.globalwaterpolicy.org
The Munk Centre for International Studies' Program on Water Issues:
www.powi.ca/
New Internationalist magazine: Focus on water-- Water Facts
www.newint.org/issue354/facts.htm
Right to Water listserve Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy;
choose Right to Water listserve
lists.iatp.org/listarchive
The Water Observatory (Campaign to Keep Water out of the WTO)
www.waterobservatory.org
World Bank:
www.worldbank.org/oed/water/
World Council of Churches: documents on water
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/jpc/earthdocs.html#water
Canadian Bottled Water Association:
www.cbwa-bottledwater.org/en/index.htm
Development and Peace youth page (includes bottled water):
youth.devp.org/aframes.html
Ecumenical Water Network (World Council of Churches)
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/activities/ewn-home.html
Inside the Bottle: Mapping the Bottled Water Industry:
www.insidethebottle.org/
Polaris Institute water page:
www.polarisinstitute.org/water
Sierra Fund Canada water/ bottled water page:
www.sierraclub.org/cac/water/bottled_water/
United Church of Canada: Bottled water policy:
www.united-church.ca/gc39/news/1802.shtm
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