Posts Tagged "gender justice"
Happy International Women’s Day
March 4, 2025
This is what women’s empowerment looks like Empowerment means standing together, lifting each other up, and ensuring equal opportunities for all… Whoever needs to hear this today, we see you, we hear you, and we believe you. Because what you…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
This Christmas, we invite you to be part of the change we all long for – a world of hope, justice, and dignity.
December 10, 2024
Hope, again, is not naive optimism or despairing pessimism: it is an active, nonviolent and shared struggle for justice and peace. -Zoughbi Zoughbi, Director at KAIROS partner organization Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center. At KAIROS, we are Indigenous Peoples,…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights
Amplifying KAIROS partners: voices for human rights and gender justice on International Human Rights Day
December 10, 2024
December 10 is International Human Rights Day, a day that commemorates the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It not easy to talk about human rights today, never mind celebrating it. The idea of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Human Rights
16 Days of Activism: highlighting the unique struggles of Palestinian women in war and under occupation
December 2, 2024
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a global campaign that runs annually from November 25 to December 10, aiming to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. However, in the context of Palestine, this campaign…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Human Rights, Middle East, Palestine Israel Conflict
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KAIROS MOMENTUM
KAIROS Great Lakes St. Lawrence presents it’s biennial fall get together on line. This year we are inviting KAIROS national representatives to update us on KAIROS work being done in the fields of Migrant Justice, Indigenous Rights, Ecological Justice and…
Rise up against gender-based violence! KAIROS’ 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, November 25-December 10
November 25, 2024
Gender-based violence is on the rise globally. Racialized and Indigenous women are particularly affected by multiple levels of gender-based violence and oppression. Women human rights defenders, peacebuilders, community leaders, journalists and politicians are often targeted, attacked and killed for speaking…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Human Rights
KAIROS reviews Budget 2024
April 23, 2024
While the federal government offered some good news in Budget 2024, which it announced on April 16, it also presented disappointments for KAIROS’ program areas. We are told that Budget 2024 is an attempted balancing act of spending increases…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
International Women’s Day – Peacebuilding in the West Bank
March 7, 2024
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, KAIROS and its partners have been immersed in the Final Reporting for our six-year Women of Courage: Women, Peace and Security program with Global Affairs Canada, including Wi’am: Palestinian Conflict Transformation Centre,…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Colombia Visit – Rachel Warden – OFP – Wi’am – Candle Vigil
November 24, 2023
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Solidarity spells M.U.J.E.R.
November 24, 2023
Post from San Pablo, Cantagallo. Colombia Women from the neighbourhoods around San Pablo, Sur de Bolivar gathered at the Organizacion Femenina Popular (Women’s House) to discuss the details of the upcoming vigil for peace and against violence and to send…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Light a Candle – Join KAIROS and OFP on Nov 25 for a vigil to end violence against women
November 24, 2023
Greetings from Barrancabermeja Colombia. It’s wonderfully inspiring to be back in Colombia with the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP). It’s good for the soul to be with an organization that believes in the capacity of women to make dreams a reality,…
Post filed in: Gender Justice
Women Global South peacebuilders to visit Canadians this fall
September 7, 2023
Disponible en françaisDisponible en espagñol KAIROS’ Women, Peace and Security global partners will speak to empowering impacts of Canadian funded program, September 25-October 6 (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – With Canada’s assistance, KAIROS Canada’s…
Post filed in: Media Releases
WPS African partner brings WPS program to life at the South-South Exchange in Nairobi
July 24, 2023
We are in Kenya and South Sudan for the KAIROS Women of Courage Women Peace and Security (WPS) program South-South Exchange. This exchange is between KAIROS partners, Heritiers de la Justice (HJ) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South, WPS
Camp Micah calling! Youth encouraged to participate in this social justice camp
July 4, 2023
Help foster the next generation movement for peace and justice. Please encourage a young person to attend Camp Micah for the experience of a lifetime. August 20-25, 2023 Ages: 14-18 years Sliding scale payment option Sign up today! Camp Micah…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Social Justice, Youth
Canada recognizes KAIROS partner for gender, climate and peace work
June 14, 2023
Global Affairs Canada awards Organización Femenina Popular during the second annual Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Awards Ceremony (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – KAIROS is thrilled to announce that Global Affairs Canada (GAC) awarded…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South, Latin America, Media Releases, Social Justice
A Prayer for MMIWG2S
May 2, 2023
Connor Sarazin A Prayer for MMIWG2S Mother Earth, Grandmother Moon, we pray to you. We pray that you hold our tears of sadness. We pray that you hold our hearts aching with grief. We pray that we will see our…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Indigenous Rights
KAIROS unpacks Budget 2023
April 5, 2023
Budget 2023 was delivered at a time of high inflation and national debt – and a challenge from Canada’s largest trading partner to step up investment in clean energy. It was no surprise then that the budget, announced on March…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
Thousands of women mobilize in Colombia
April 4, 2023
Thousands of women mobilize in Colombia for presentation of Human Rights Report by National Office of the Ombudsman. Spanish report below On March 23, the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), a partner in KAIROS’ Women of Courage: Women, Peace and Security…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
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National Affirming PIE Day
March 14 is National Affirming PIE Day and 2023 has been declared the Year of Intention. On that day Kamloops United Church will be distributing mini-pies (aka “Tarts with Intention”) to passers-by from the front steps of our building at…
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Affirming Worship Service
On Sunday, March 12th Kamloops United Church, 421 St. Paul Street in Kamloops, B.C., will have a special Affirming worship at 10 am, streaming online and in person, with guest speaker Rev. Donald Schmidt, author of The Bible and Homosexuality…
OFP’s International Women’s Day statement denounces violence against women as a Humanitarian Emergency
March 9, 2023
On International Women’s Day, KAIROS partner, Organización Femenina Popular (OFP), released a statement calling attention to and denouncing the increase in violence against women in the region of Magdalena Medio, including the assassination of Sandra Lozano on March 7. The…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South
Episode 2: Changing the Narrative on Gender Justice in South Sudan: Jackcilia Salathiel’s Story of Courage
January 25, 2023
Our second episode of the KAIROS Women of Courage podcast series features Jackcilia Salathiel, the National Women’s Coordinator at the South Sudan Council Churches’ National Women’s Program. Jackcilia shares her story of courage as a human rights lawyer and gender…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
On the role of women in climate justice
November 29, 2022
En español Climate change is a phenomenon that catastrophically affects all of humanity. This world cannot bear any more extractivism and excesses of our lifestyle. And it is also a crisis scenario that acts in a differentiated way on Global…
Post filed in: COP27, Ecological Justice
Introducing Hana Elias Anton Kare – Wi’am/West Bank
September 16, 2022
Introducing Hana Kare, a researcher, trainer and peace activist with Wi’am: Palestine Conflict Transformation Centre. Like the other Women, Peace and Security partners, Wi’am is a long-term ecumenical and KAIROS partner, now active in the emerging gender, conflict and climate…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Middle East
