Posts Tagged "women peace and security"
Interview with Kelly Campo on La Comunera
December 11, 2023
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, WPS
Photo Essay Climate-Conflict-Gender Tour
October 16, 2023
After months of planning, KAIROS and network welcomed its Women of Courage (WPS) partners from September 25 to October 6 with open arms and hearts. This was part of the long-anticipated Climate, Conflict, Gender: KAIROS Canada’s Women of Courage Visit…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, WPS
Interview with Proscovia Mungasa James on CBC Cape Breton
October 13, 2023
While in Sydney, NS during Climate, Conflict, Gender: KAIROS Canada’s Women of Courage Visit 2023, Proscovia Mungasa James spoke with Wendy Bergfeldt on CBC Mainstreet Cape Breton about the transformational work of the South Sudan Council of Churches’ National Women’s…
Post filed in: WPS
Event
Climate, Conflict, Gender : KAIROS Canada’s Women of Courage Visit – Montréal
Montréal Climate, Conflict, Gender KAIROS Canada’s Women of Courage Visit – October 2 at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:15 PM) Congregation de Notre-Dame, 2330 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3H 1G8 Map Join us on October 2 for an…
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
Read all about it! Women Peace and Security at a Glance report for Year Five
August 24, 2023
English Français Español Progress report! Take a glance at KAIROS Women, Peace and Security Year 5 successes! More women impacted by conflict have benefited from psychosocial, human rights and legal support and are actively engaged in peacebuilding processes. More men…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South, Uncategorized
SSCC Statement on Nonviolence
April 26, 2023
“Put your sword back in its place …”(Mathew 26:52) The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), a KAIROS partner and participant in the Women, Peace and Security program, issued a powerful statement on nonviolence after the Ecumenical Peace Pilgrimage to…
Post filed in: Global South
KAIROS at UNCSW67 – Tackling the gender digital divide
March 24, 2023
Women and girls face a digital divide. There has been no framework to address this – until now. On March 18, Member States at the UN 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) agreed to an…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
“Inspiring and humbling.” UN women’s events lead discussion on digital access and security
March 24, 2023
I attended the 67th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) during its first week: March 6-11, along with Lucy Talgieh, the Women’s Project Coordinator at Wi’am: Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center and a KAIROS Women of Courage: Women, Peace…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Technology, cyber space and total isolation – UNCSW67
March 23, 2023
I could not guarantee my arrival to the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW67). I do not take the trip and journey to New York with ease. I do not take for granted how many people, organizations and…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Transforming dreams into reality in Colombia
February 28, 2023
I am visiting Colombia for the first time as the new Latin America Partnerships Coordinator. And this is the first time anyone from KAIROS had visited in three years, since the pandemic began. We started in Colombia with the Organización…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South, Latin America
What impact will your Christmas donation to KAIROS have?
December 8, 2022
A significant one. Your donation to KAIROS’ Women, Peace and Security program will have 4X the impact! Juan Rachael Michael Roberto standing in front of the COP27 sign. Juan Rachael Michael Roberto and her colleagues are bringing women…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Statements
Violence Against Women and Mother Earth
December 4, 2022
Mother Earth suffers through her daughters and with them. She exists and persists, and along with her daughters, they thread their lives and territories. Violence against women continues to be an obstacle to achieving equality, development, and peace and to…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Latin America
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
SOBRE EL ROL ESENCIAL DE LAS MUJERES EN LA JUSTICIA CLIMATICA
November 29, 2022
In English El cambio climático es un fenómeno que afecta a toda la humanidad de una manera catastrófica. Este mundo no puede soportar más extractivismo y excesos de nuestro estilo de vida. Y también es un escenario de crisis que…
Post filed in: COP27, Ecological Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Highlights from my participation at 11th WCC Assembly, by Zoughbi Zoughbi
October 19, 2022
The 11th World Council of Churches Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany was indeed a celebration of life from diverse churches, dignitaries, students, patriarchs, bishops, clergy, nuns, professors, and political, social, and economic leaders of the world. I was representing Wi’am: Palestinian…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Middle East
Call for bolder ecumenical commitment to justice and peace: reflections from 11th WCC Assembly
September 26, 2022
The recently concluded 11th World Council of Churches Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, was quite an experience for the more than 4,000 attendees who participated in the event, in its significance and richness in content. Participants included delegates from WCC member…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
KAIROS workshop at WCC Assembly inspires hope for gender justice in Christ’s love
September 7, 2022
KAIROS delivered an engaging workshop at the ongoing 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Lessons from women peacebuilders on transformation to more peaceful, just and sustainable relationships among all peoples and with Creation….
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
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
South Sudan Council of Churches Action Plan for Peace
April 29, 2022
A review to strengthen collective action to peace in South Sudan The South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC), its Board of Trustees, and the Council’s global, regional and national partners have just concluded a three-day review and reflection on the…
Post filed in: Africa
Tabled: Two new bills asserting that Human Rights and Accountability are Non-negotiable
March 30, 2022
A people and planet first approach to business is long overdue. This is why KAIROS welcomes the tabling of two corporate accountability bills in the House of Commons today. These two bills seek to address deficiencies in the way Canada…
Post filed in: Corporate Accountability, Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Event
WOMEN PEACEBUILDERS BUILD BACK with ENVIRONMENTAL and ECONOMIC SECURITY
A virtual parallel event at the NGO-CSW66 Forum. Session will be available in English, French and Spanish. SESSION FOCUS Broaden the approach and intersection of Women, Peace and Security to include economic injustice and the climate crisis. Support wholistic women-led…
KAIROS joins partners in condemning the assassination of human rights defenders Teófilo Acuña Ribón and Jorge Alberto Tafur in Colombia
March 2, 2022
On February 22, Teófilo Acuña Ribón and Jorge Alberto Tafur, two well respected human rights defenders working for land rights in Colombia were killed. Teófilo and Jorge Alberto are two of thirty-three human rights defenders murdered thus far in 2022…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Latin America
Kaji’ Ajpop Strengthens Indigenous Women’s Rights in Guatemala
March 1, 2022
KAIROS has a long history of working with partners in Guatemala on Indigenous rights, environmental and land defense, and gender justice. In 2021, KAIROS began exploring a new partnership and supporting the work of Kaji’ Ajpop, an association that promotes…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Latin America
Decolonization is at the heart of effective climate action
February 25, 2022
Photo: Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill on Jan. 31, 2022. Decolonization is at the heart of effective climate action. This means giving space to Black and other racialized people, particularly women, to have a…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Op Eds
Join us for Women of Courage Workshop at UN Commission on the Status of Women #CSW66
February 24, 2022
KAIROS is hosting a virtual parallel event at the 2022 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), on March 22, 2022, at 10.00AM – 12.00PM EST. The workshop, ‘Women peacebuilders build back with environmental and economic security’, will…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
Strengthening the livelihoods of Palestinians through agriculture in the West Bank
February 23, 2022
The agricultural sector, considered the cornerstone of Palestinian economic development, has not been able to play its strategic role because of the dispossession of land and the denial of access to agricultural areas, water resources, domestic and external markets as…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Middle East
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic #KAIROS20
August 9, 2021
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic: KAIROS, you are a light in the world. Let your light so shine before men (and women), that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven: Matthew 5: 16. “To be…
Post filed in: #KAIROS20 Anniversary, Middle East
