We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming 🕊Mother’s Day Peace Awards Ceremony🕊, a celebration of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to creating a more peaceful world. The event will take place on Saturday, May 11th at 6pm at Friends House (with a virtual option available). This evening will include a dinner, special keynote speaker, silent auction, opportunity …
Make Art, Not Bombs As part of the Canada Wide Peace Caravan 2024, members of Nova Scotia Voice of Women of Peace and World BEYOND War will present workshops en route to CANSEC, the largest weapons trade show in Canada. We will meet in Ottawa with our sisters in peace activism from WILPF, who are travelling from Vancouver and with …
Join us! The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada will be facilitating this interactive workshop that will explore the transformative power of feminist disarmament education as a means to achieving security and gender equality. Attendees will learn about feminist disarmament education, the Women Peace and Security agenda and gain …
Canadian Voice of Women joins in the world-wide call for an end to the persecution of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange facing a 175-year prison term in the United States if extradited by Britain. In a letter today to President Joe Biden, sent jointly with The Centre for Free Expression, VOW called on the American President to drop his government’s pursuit of Mr. Assange. …
The war on Gaza continues. Last Friday the International Court of Justice concluded that Israel is plausibly committing genocide. This charge will be pursued. In the meantime the ICJ called for interim provisional measures to ensure that genocidal acts are prevented and that aid is delivered. In the days that followed hundreds more Palestinians have been killed and injured. There …
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is opposed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a Western-patriarchal institution of violence. Over the course of our history, VOW has passed at least two resolutions calling for Canada to withdraw and for the alliance to be abolished. In 2019, we launched a monthly protest against NATO outside the NATO Association of …
The Peace Protector Uniform was an interactive display located on a pier in Halifax during Nocturne 2023 and it included a reconstructed military uniform, a recruitment office run by Raging Grannies and an activity table. The military uniform will continue as a display piece. COME VISIT: The uniform is on display at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax from January …
At the Kelowna Peace Group peace rally November 5th, 2023, at city hall, followed by a march to join the University students organized rally in downtown Kelowna. Article written by Hannah Hadikin (VOW Co-Chair) Every woman has the right to the protection of all human rights. Human rights were enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights—a …
On November 25th, Voice of Women’s 63rd Annual General Meeting transpired. This event was hybrid– taking place at Friends House in Toronto with members joining in virtually from all across Canada. We are so appreciative for all of you who were able to come together with us! The AGM business conventions were dutifully fulfilled. Sufficient numbers met the quorum requirements …
Members Tamara Lorincz, Marla Slavner & Kasha Sequoia Slavner are heading to the COP 28 Climate Summit in Dubai, UAE. Tamara was selected to join the Climate Action Network-Canada (CAN-Rac) delegation as the VOW representative. Our organization is a member of CAN-Rac. They are bringing the messages for “peace for climate justice,” “cut military spending for climate finance”, “cancel the …
