Sign and share the Canadian coalition statement and petition to call for peace in Ukraine not war. VOW helped to bring together activists to draft a statement and petition for Canada to de-militarize the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine. The statement urges the Trudeau government to reduce tensions by ending arms sales and military training in Ukraine, opposing …
By Aleksandra Statkiewicz VOW Intern Climate change and the earth heating have always been a hot topic (no pun intended). We have lived and seen the last 6 years being our hottest since the Paris Agreement which was ironically agreed upon 6 years ago. The Paris Agreement is a legal binding international treaty that was made to tackle climate change …
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace along with over 50 other organizations endorsed this letter to the Prime Minister regarding ongoing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia.
This forum is a student-led initiative advised by activists working on nuclear weapons issues at Science for Peace and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace. The forum’s major themes are the humanitarian implications of the renewed nuclear-arms race and the potential of the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to build a world free of the menaced …
Please join us at our Canadian Voice of Women for Peace Annual General Meeting Use this link to register Please join us to hear extraordinary peace advocates and their work to make the world a better place which will be followed by our Annual General meeting including the annual report, financial report and progress on VOW’s priority peace themes and …
NOV 11 – THREE ACTIONS ACROSS CANADA: Kjipuktuk/Halifax at 3 pm Maritime Time, Toronto 12 noon, Salt Spring Island and at COP 26 in Glasgow 1). Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace in collaboration with over 50 women from across the country, have created a banner to commemorate the 38 Yemeni children who were killed in August 2018 by …
Hon. Steven Guilbeault, MP House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A6 Re: Our concerns about rising military emissions and expenditures in the midst of catastrophic climate change and our call for demilitarization for decarbonization and gender-responsive climate action Dear Minister Guilbeault, The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) congratulates you on your appointment as Minister of Environment and …
EXTREME NOISE –CARBON EMISSIONS – DISPLACEMENT FOR AIR FORCE BASES – HARMS PEOPLE & THE PLANET Thursday, October 21 7:00-8:30 P.M. ET Join our webinar to watch the 12-minute documentary “Jet Line” about fighter jet noise in Burlington, Vermont where a new fleet of F-35s have just been based and to hear from activists from ‘Stop the F-35 Coalition’ in …
Join us for our third action against fighter jets: a Canada-wide week of peace advocacy. With nearly 50 actions completed we want to show our newly elected and re-elected Members of Parliament that we want them to scrap the procurement deal of 88 fighter jets with an initial price tag of 19 billion dollars and a lifecycle cost of around …
Join us on Sunday, October 24th as we discuss Yves Engler’s new book Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Sponsored by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute we will dive into militarism and anti-war resistance in Canadian history. Here is the link to register bit.ly/3ApyGQW Here is …
