Youth today have a lot to say and a lot to lose, if they don’t speak up. This year we saw the Fridays for Future Climate Strikes strikes gain global popularity spearheaded by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Canadian youth rallied at the call and participated in the Global Climate Strikes in September 2019 to try to wake up our …
Plan to be a part of this momentous celebration of women’s activism for peace. Our call for nominations for our 2020 Award Ceremony will be announced on our website, by email and social media. Please stay tuned for more information on our Awards Gala as we navigate through the pandemic health crisis. To be added to our early-bird guest list please email info@vowpeace.org Our VOW …
March 23, 2020 To the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Cc: Federal Cabinet Ministers COVID-19 is presenting real and immediate risks to people’s health and livelihoods. It is appropriate and necessary for the federal government to make major interventions to keep people safe and healthy, to keep food on our tables and roofs over our heads. What is clear in these …
President Andrea Albutt, March 23, 2020Prison Governors Association Room LG.27Ministry of Justice102 Petty FranceLONDONSW1H 9AJ Via email Dear President Albutt: Julian Assange – Extreme COVID-19 Risk We, the National Board Members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace are writing to you as concerned global citizens and expressly request the immediate release of Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison. With the rapidly growing spread …
Ursula Franklin Award for Distinction We honour one woman for showing compassionate leadership through their peace activism. Urusla Franklin (1908-2009) was a pioneer feminist, pacifist, scientist, and social justice fighter. She was one of the most prominent members of Canada’s Feminist Peace Movement and a founding member of VOW. Muriel Duckworth showed women how to become leaders. For more than 60 years, she …
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2014 Commission on Status of Women (CSW 58):CHALLENGING MILITARIZED SECURITY:DELEGITIMIZATION OF WARViolence against women is and always has been integral to war and all armed conflict. It pervades all forms of militarism. It is likely to endure so long as the institution of war is a legally sanctioned instrument of state, so long as arms are the means to political, …
July 24, 2014 Dear Ambassador, The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is extremely concerned about the extremely destructive attacks taking place almost entirely within Gaza killing, wounding and traumatizing so many. We recognize the trauma that rocket attacks into Israel are causing, and regret Israeli military and civilian deaths; however, we do not believe that the hundreds of deaths …
Hon. Chrystia Freeland, MPMinister of Foreign AffairsGlobal Affairs Canada125 Sussex DriveOttawa, ON K1A 0G2 Re: Our opposition to Canada’s closing its embassy in Venezuela Dear Minister Freeland, We, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), have demonstrated outside your office and have delivered a letter to you every month this year to express our opposition to the Government of Canada’s illegal interference and sanctions …
Mogadishu, 25 February 2020 – Somalia’s federal electoral law has now been approved by the House of the People and was signed into law by the President on 20 February. This law is part of the essential electoral legislative framework required so one-person-one-vote national elections that allow as many citizens as possible to vote can take place on time. While this …
