13 février 2012
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Récemment, le ministre canadien des Affaires étrangères s’est rendu au Moyen-Orient, une initiative admirable dans une région qui a tant besoin de paix. KAIROS-Initiatives […]

“On February 22 and 23, Canada’s record on combating discrimination will be examined by a high level body of the United Nations. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the independent […]

Le conseil d’administration de KAIROS: Initiatives œcuméniques canadiennes pour la justice est heureux d’annoncer que Jennifer Henry a été nommée directrice générale de KAIROS; elle entrera en fonction le 12 mars […]

The Board of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives is pleased to announce that Jennifer Henry has been appointed to be the new Executive Director of KAIROS, effective March 12, 2012.

Ms. Henry has […]

After a journey that lasted too long (sailing up the Nile would have been quicker) I am in Juba, Southern Sudan.

What is immediately apparent is that, if this town is going to become a new national capital (and […]

It’s the question on everyone’s mind: will war break out after the referendum? The short answer is: I don’t know. And it’s possible, nobody does.

The president of Sudan, Omar Al Bashir, was in town on Tuesday […]

There is a lot of talk of oil in Juba.

The referendum on splitting up the country which begins on Sunday will begin to clarify positions on who benefits from the considerable oil revenues of Sudan. It won’t be […]

Good people have many virtues, including patience. By that account, the people of Southern Sudan must be good people. They have exercised remarkable patience over the last few decades, waging a struggle for […]

It’s hard not to get caught up in the enthusiasm the people of Juba feel for the coming days. Tomorrow, Jubans and their neighbours throughout Southern Sudan begin voting in a referendum on splitting up Sudan. In […]

Posted are some images from the referendum on self-determination in Southern Sudan taking place January 9-15, 2011.

Day One

Yei

Day Two

Congo Road

Day Three

Maridi Road

Day Four

Juba […]

There are only 2 days of voting left (assuming that the Referendum Commission doesn’t extend voting). Several observation teams are discussing preliminary statements, including the Carter Center and the EU. We […]

I read the article below in the Juba Post this morning. It’s one story of many, but it’s similar to what we witnessed at a couple of polling centres over the last week and I think it’s worth excerpting here:

JUBA […]

Voting wound up Saturday afternoon in Southern Sudan’s referendum on self-determination. A local singer in Juba referred to this entire process as simply “doing the paper work” of secession. It’s true, the result […]

Vernie Yocogan has posted a great article on the Women of Courage Colombia tour in the ‘Northern Dispatch (nordis) Weekly’, a blog of the nordis Weekly, a people’s newspaper for Northern Philippines:

“Women’s […]

Presented by Vernie Yocogan-Diano, on behalf of Innabuyog, an alliance of Indigenous women’s organizations in the Cordillera, Philippines,  on 9 December 2010 during the Gawad Tanggol Karapatan or Awards for […]

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Tomorrow, the Living Courage tour  begins.   We will all meet in Victoria, after travelling from different parts of the world: Chantal from Congo, Rebecca from Sudan, Vernie from the […]

BY JILL HARRIS

As I told different stories from personal experience and from what I had witnessed, Chantal agreed that many of these were similar to stories in her context.
The visit by KAIROS’ Women of […]

By Glenys Verhulst

Glenys Verhulst is a volunteer with the Victoria Philippines Solidarity Group, a small, grassroots organization that seeks to raise awareness about and seek justice for human rights issues that […]

Sermon, Vancouver Chinese Presbyterian Church, 16 October 2011

(Pastor Morgan Wong of Vancouver Chinese Presbyterian Church had invited Rebecca Nyagai Kafi of the Sudan Council of Churches to preach at the […]