Global Partnerships
Offices
KAIROS Canada (Toronto Office)
80 Hayden Street, Suite 400 Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2
Tel: 416-463-5312
Toll free: 1-877-403-8933
info@kairoscanada.org
KAIROS Canada (Ottawa Office)
PO Box 64047 Ottawa RPO Wellington, ON K1Y 4V1
Tel: 416-463-5312
Toll free: 1-877-403-8933
info@kairoscanada.org
KAIROS IS A MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ADVOCACY INITIATIVES:
Ad Hoc Coalition on the UN Declaration
Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability
Canadian Council for International Co-operation
Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR)
Canadian Environmental Network / Le Réseau Canadien de l’environnement
Climate Action Network Canada
Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
Green Economy Network
Halifax Initiative
MiningWatch Canada
Our Living Waters Networ
Sudan Inter-Agency Reference Group
Table de concertation sur la région des Grands Lacs
Women Peace and Security Network – Canada
AT TIMES KAIROS COLLABORATES ON SHARED OBJECTIVES WITH THE FOLLOWING CANADIAN SOLIDARITY PARTNERS
AfricaFiles
Amnesty International
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Canadian Friends of Sabeel
Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ)
Common Frontiers
Council of Canadians
Defenders of the Land
Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS)
Feeding My Family
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (The Caring Society)
First Nations Summit
Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)
Indigenous Environmental Network
INDIGENOUS NETWORK ON ECONOMIES AND TRADE (INET)
Indigenous Peoples’ Solidarity Movement Ottawa (IPSMO)
Legacy of Hope
Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO)
MIGRANTE Canada
Minwasshin Lodge
National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC)
Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC)
Odawa Native Friendship Centre
Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG)
Project of Heart
Project Ploughshares
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Regroupement pour la responsabilité sociale et l’équité (RRSE)
Réseau oecuménique justice et paix
Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE)
Stop the Killing Network-Canada
Social Investment Organization (SIO)
Student Christian Movement of Canada
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
UNIFOR
Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC)
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)/Agricultural Workers Alliance (AWA)
AT TIMES, KAIROS COLLABORATES ON SHARED OBJECTIVES WITH THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY PARTNERS:
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
Asia Pacific Research Network
Bench Marks Foundation (South Africa)
Center for Environmental Concerns, Philippines
Climate Justice Now!
Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (U.K.)
Focus on the Global South
Friends of the Earth International
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (U.S.)
Jubilee South
Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America (OCMAL)
Pacific People’s Partnership
Pan African Climate Justice Alliance
Red Latin Americana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales
Third World Network
Via Campesina
West Papua Action Network
World Council of Churches
Canadian Network
KAIROS Manitoulin
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EcuVoice – The Ecumenical Voice for Human Rights and Peace.
Website: https://ecuvoicephils.wordpress.com/
Country: The Philippines
Global partner since: 2000
The Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines (Ecumenical Voice) is a network of faith-based and human rights organizations that are working together to promote peace and people’s rights for the defense of life, land, and God’s creation. EcuVoice has been a partner of KAIROS since the early 2000s. KAIROS has supported EcuVoice to bring the true picture of the human rights situation in the Philippines – including the situation of women, Indigenous people and other victims of rights violations – to various government bodies, including the Canadian Parliament, the US Congress and inter-governmental bodies like the UN Human Rights Council since 2007.
National Council of Churches of the Philippines
Website: https://nccphilippines.org/
Country: The Philippines
Global partner since: 2000
Founded in 1963, the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) is an ecumenical fellowship of Protestant denominations in the Philippines working for unity in faith and order. This implies providing the churches with opportunities for common prophetic witness and service in responding to the people’s issues, specifically justice and peace, human dignity and rights, and the integrity of creation. It finds its theological basis in incarnation – in God’s solidarity with us, especially with those who suffer and the vulnerable – for the affirmation of just and inclusive communities. It also compels the church to bring about Christian hope into the realm of the possible in a society weighed down by systemic violence and degradation.
The ministry of the NCCP is organized into three distinct programs—Ecumenical Education and Nurture, Christian Unity and Ecumenical Relations, and Faith, Witness and Service—which seek to express the NCCP’s mission of promoting fellowship, being a channel of united witness, and being a vibrant and credible institution for Christian solidarity towards the genuine transformation of church and society.
Mesa Ecuménica por la Paz
Website: https://mesaecumenica.org/
Global partner since: 2012
Country: Colombia
Focus: marginalized communities on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia.
The Ecumenical Peace Forum is a process in Colombia’s ecumenical, social, and popular movement. It comprises individuals, different expressions of churches, and communities that, through faith and liberating practice, seek peace with social and environmental justice
Kaji’ Ajpop
Website: https://kaji-ajpop.org/en
Country: Guatemala
Global partner since: 2020
Focus: Mayan women of communities of the Solola region.
Kaji’ Ajpop is an association of Indigenous Mayan women that promotes creating conditions for vulnerable communities in the country (especially the Mayan population) to access basic conditions to live dignified and full lives in harmony with Mother Nature. Founded in 2019, Kaji’ Ajpop works with Maya Kaqchikel women in and around Sololá, Guatemala, to enhance and increase their participation in decision-making spaces and capacity to generate proposals and undertake advocacy in women’s groups and committees.
Acción Ecológica
Website: https://www.accionecologica.org/
Country: Ecuador
Global Partner since: 2001
Focus: Quito’s population participants of the Regional Consultation about the ban on metallic mining in the Northwest of the country.
Acción Ecológica (AE) is a national and international reference, respected for being a critical, feminist, environmental organization consistent with the principles that sustain it. AE works with Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and farming communities on issues related to the defence of human and environmental rights and territories, especially in the context of resource extraction. They also work with young people in urban settings, always joining efforts and initiatives to defend nature and the people. AE was instrumental in the ecological debt campaign during Jubilee 2000, arguing the North owes the South due to ecological destruction and damage (loss and damages), the Keep the Oil in the Ground campaign and for several years promoting the Amazon for Life Campaign to make visible the impacts of oil activity on Amazon.
Centro de Formación Integral Para Promotores Indígenas A.C, Diocese of San Cristobal
Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Cefipi-AC/pfbid02Gt8XCAoTKTv8Xr11CyhHf5WtuHbL3jvKEtvkfKQ3PkCjLKA6TSPDMeFbWVCEZDSFl/ & https://www.instagram.com/cefipi_ac/?hl=de&img_index=1
Country: Chiapas – Mexico
Global partner since: 2017
Focus: Chab team Tseltal population, mission of Bachajón, Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Since its founding in August 1997, the Centro De Formación Integral Para Promotores Indígenas A.C. of the Diocese of San Cristobal de las Casas trains human rights promoters to work across the diocese to defend human rights, especially those at the intersection of Indigenous rights and ecological justice, seeks to strengthen Indigenous promoters, improving the quality of life of the Tseltal communities. The organization is linked to the parishes of Chilón, run by the Tseltal of Chilón. The program is rooted in the historic work of the Diocese of San Cristobal in human rights and social justice and is associated with the legacy of Bishop Samuel Ruiz.
Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Sociales y Ambientales
Website: https://www.redlatinoamericanademujeres.org/
Country: The Network is present in 10 Abya Yala countries. Their coordination rotates between member organizations.
Global partner since: 2012
Focus: Partner Organizations in Latin America for social media platforms.
The Latin American Network of Women Defenders of Social and Environmental Rights is a women’s organization present in 11 countries of Abya Yala that influences policies, projects and practices that contribute to the defence of the rights of our peoples, of nature and of the social rights that are violated by extractive mining projects and that directly affect women.
Organización Femenina Popular – OFP
Website: https://www.organizacionfemeninapopular.org/en/home-2/
Country: Barrancabermeja, Santander (Prov) Colombia
Global partner since: 2001
Focus: Three hundred rural and urban women from neighbourhoods and sectors of the municipalities of Barrancabermeja, Yondó (Antioquia), San Pablo (Bolívar) and the corregimiento of La Fortuna (Barrancabermeja). In addition, 1,200 people will be indirectly impacted to promote social integration and an environment of respect and community recognition of their diverse capacity, free of gender discrimination.
The OFP’s work materializes in programs and actions to dignify the lives of women and their families and contribute directly to transforming their realities. Its commitment to the fair and inclusive development of the region promotes the inclusion of women as political subjects and the transformation of the paradigms of discrimination and violence in the public and private spheres. It has been working with women victims and survivors of gender-based violence and the decades-long conflict to build conditions for just, equitable and sustainable peace in the Magdalena Medio region, which is rich in natural resources, making it a focal point of the conflict. As in other areas, women face the impacts of environmental degradation caused by climate change and resource extraction differently and often more acutely. The OFP has joined environmental and human rights in raising concerns about these issues.
Oilwatch Africa (OWA)
Website: https://oilwatch.africa/
Country: Located in Nairobi, Kenya. Coordinates work across 15 countries in Africa
Focus: This report sheds light on a case study on loss and damage. The study, which took place in Ghana’s southeastern communities, was field visits driven, deploying interviews, group discussions and other forms of participatory models of engagements.
Oilwatch Africa (OWA) is a network that coordinates work across 15 countries to resist the negative impacts of the oil and gas industry on people and their environments. It has built a strong, active network to monitor and respond to the impacts of fossil fuel activities on African peoples and their environments.
OWA is the African unit of Oilwatch International, a network dedicated to developing global strategies for communities affected by oil operations and to supporting their efforts to ensure ecological sustainability. Oilwatch’s creation in 1994 was inspired by the need to create global strategies for the communities affected by oil activities, support their resistance processes, and work for sustainability and collective rights. We facilitate the exchange of information on oil activities in each country, the different resistance movements and the international campaigns against specific companies.
WoMin African Alliance
Website: https://womin.africa/
Country: Offices in South Africa
Global partner since: 2020
Focus: Mayan women of communities of the Solola region.
WoMin is a Pan-African ecofeminist alliance which works alongside organizations of women, peasants, and communities impacted by extractive developments. It aims to make visible and publicize the impacts of extractivism on peasant and working-class African women and support women’s organizing, movement-building and solidarity. WoMin is committed to advancing an African post-extractivist, ecologically-just, women-centred alternative to the dominant destructive development model, defining its role as one of support and allyship to movements on the ground and advancing this commitment through all our efforts. WoMin works on climate justice, consent and democratized socio-economic decision-making, as well as extractivism, militarization and violence against women.
Since 2020, KAIROS has supported WoMin’s “Women building power for energy and climate justice” program, which aims to deepen the women’s movement for energy and climate justice and create a Pan-African platform which centralizes women’s perspectives, leadership, and voice.
South Sudan Council of Churches
Website: https://www.globalministries.org/partner/south_sudan_council_of_churches/ & https://www.oikoumene.org/organization/south-sudan-council-of-churches
Country: South Sudan
Global Partner since:
Founded in 2013, the South Sudan Council of Churches is an ecumenical body comprised of seven (7) member Churches and associate Churches in South Sudan with a strong legacy of peacebuilding, reconciliation, and advocacy. SSCC provides a platform to enhance the spirit of ecumenical cooperation toward collective action for peace; by its very nature, the Church is a Peacemaker. For SSCC, “Peace is more than just the absence of war and silence of guns; neither is peace attained overnight and as the Church, we commit ourselves to this long-term process”.
KAIROS supports SSCC’s National Women’s Program (SSCC-NWP), which is deeply respected across the country and well-positioned to build bridges between the warring sides as it works to diffuse violence and lay the groundwork for lasting peace and, at the same time, empower women and girls and address gender injustice. The SSCC-NWP works with men and boys to help them understand the importance of gender justice and equity and the need to help make it a reality. The SSCC-NWP has been called to work on and speak out on the nexus of climate, conflict and gender as the security, rights and well-being of the communities and program participants they serve are increasingly affected by the impacts of climate, including flooding and droughts.
Héritiers de la Justice (HJ)
Website: None
Country: Sud-Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Global partner since: 2005
Focus: Survivors of gender-based violence supported by Héritiers de la Justice local network (SALVIS-PDF).
Héritiers de la Justice (heirs of justice) is a Congolese NGO and human rights organization specializing in peace promotion in the Great Lakes region, particularly in South Kivu. It was founded in 1991 by three people who were personally affected by the repressive, dictatorial and violent power tactics of the Mobutu regime. Through legal clinics, it provides legal training, information, and mediation. HJ’s team of women’s rights advocates, lawyers, and paralegals endeavour to bring justice for women survivors of war. They document cases of sexual violence, accompany women through the judicial process, and provide education on Congolese and international laws that protect their rights, advocating for the government to make policy changes to protect women and children. More recently, HJ has provided collective economic empowerment opportunities to women victims and survivors of gender-based violence.
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Website: https://www.btselem.org/
Country: With offices in East Jerusalem, they work throughout Areas A, B, and C in Israel and the West Bank—Palestine.
Partner since: 2021
Focus: improve B’Tselem’s ability to store and protect the vast amounts of information, media, and documentation collected over its 34-year history on our website, data, document, and video servers from disasters and accidents as well as attacks on B’Tselem that aim to silence criticism of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Since 1989, B’Tselem has been documenting, researching and publishing statistics, testimonies, video footage, position papers and reports on human rights violations committed by Israel in the Occupied Territories. The organization strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all Palestinian and Jewish people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, a future that will only be possible when the Israeli occupation ends. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.
Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center.
Website: https://www.alaslah.org/
Country: With offices in Bethlehem, Area C under the Palestinian Authority, they focus their work in Areas B and C in the West Bank – Palestine.
Global Partner since: 2011
When Wi’am opened its doors in 1994, people living in the West Bank did not accept the authority of the Israeli military occupation, and there was no clear Palestinian authority outside of Gaza and Jericho. Since many of the traditional village leaders (mukhtars) were appointed by the Israelis as part of the occupation, their legitimacy was no longer fully accepted by the community.
Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center is a grassroots civil society organization based in Bethlehem. In Arabic,“wi’am” means “cordial relationships,” and developing relationships is the essence of our mission. It helps to resolve disputes within the Palestinian communities at the grassroots level by implementing the traditional Arab form of mediation, known as Sulha, along with Western models of conflict transformation. Wi’am has programs that empower children, youth, women and men, addressing the psychological and physiological consequences of long-term conflict.
Wi’am’s programming for women includes income-generating projects, employment training, legal training, and workshops on international and national laws that protect their rights. Women are also taught peace and political negotiation skills and offered treatment for psychological and physical wounds caused by the conflict. Wi’am is helping empower victims to become voices in their own defense and for community justice and peace.
The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR) is a Middle East Council of Churches department.
Website: https://dspr.org/
Country: With offices in East Jerusalem, they focus their work in Areas B and C in the West Bank – Palestine.
Global partner since: 2001
The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees “DSPR” of the Middle East Council of Churches “MECC” started in 1948 as an ad-hoc ecumenical group with both international and local spirited clergy and lay people to tend to the trauma of over 726,000 Palestinian refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war. DSPR eventually evolved into five Area Committees, one each in Jerusalem and West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, Galilee, and the Gaza Strip, coordinated through a Central Office that has been located in East Jerusalem since 1997. DSPR was initially registered in Cyprus in 1970, where members from all over the region met regularly. It became part of the MECC (Middle East Council of Churches) when it was established in 1974.
DSPR reflects the Christian core values in its witness and Diakonia in partnership with local and global actors. It fosters and advances socio-economic conditions for Palestinians by providing health, education, environmental, economic, social and humanitarian programs with the realization of fundamental human rights. DSPR also advocates for an end to the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories. Historically, KAIROS has supported DSPR’s vocational training and health care programs in Gaza and land reclamation and water projects in the West Bank.
