VOW and WILPF Canada recently wrote to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and other Members of Parliament and Senators. The letters requested meetings and advocated for Canada to end the war in Ukraine, ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, reduce military spending, prioritize diplomacy and disarmament, and promote the Women Peace and Security agenda. “We are concerned that …
Add your name to the petition to cancel the dangerous, provocative and destructive international Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval war practice and create a demilitarized Pan-Pacific Zone of Peace. VOW is one of many peace and justice organizations supporting this campaign. The petition page has lots of background and some links to videos and as well news from activists in the area.
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The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and Science for Peace are looking to hire a PAID peace campaign intern! This peace campaign internship is a part-time (10 hrs/week for $20/hr), 5-month internship contract through the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW). Deadline to apply is August 1, 2022. Apply online. The peace campaign intern will help work on our “Disarmament” …
VOW, together with individual members and organizational members of the Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, urges people across Canada to join us to protest the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and demand an end to the war in Ukraine between June 24 to June 30. We will be holding “Stop the Weapons, Stop the War, Stop NATO” rallies across Canada …
Time is running out for the Canadian government to send a delegation to the historic first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The meeting will take place in Vienna, Austria from June 21st to the 23rd. Canada has no plans to attend and has not signed or ratified the treaty but could …
On June 8th, Ottawa City Council officially voted unanimously in favour of supporting the TPNW! Ottawa joins 17 other Canadian cities as part of the ICAN Cities Appeal, including Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg, and by many other cities around the world. Nuclear weapons put all our cities at risk. Has your city signed on? Check the ICAN website to find out and if not, you could use …
Hundreds strong, protestors blocked access to all entrances to the CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa on June 1, 2022 in solidarity with everyone killed and displaced by the weapons sold there. It was impossible for anyone to attend their weapons fair without directly confronting the violence and bloodshed they are complicit in. See more photos and links to media coverage.
We are honoured to have received two original poems this spring, penned by VOW members, decades apart. One written recently by VOW Board of Directors member Ainun Afroza and another sent to us by VOW member Joy West-Eklund and written in 1958 by her late mother, Theresa Harries, who was a founding member of Calgary Voice of Women. Absence Of …
“Humanity remains one misunderstanding, one misstep, one miscalculation, one pushed button away from annihilation,” said the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres on September 26, 2021, the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. We have already come close to disaster several times. We can’t always be lucky. Nuclear disarmament is an emergency. Nevertheless, following US instructions to NATO member countries, Canada …
