NGO CSW/NY Parallel Event: Empowering, Educating and Engaging Youth through Feminist Disarmament Education

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 …

VOW joins call for release of Julian Assange

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. …

War on Gaza: SIGN THE PETITION NOW

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 …

Women Against NATO

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 …

Get Involved: The Peace Protector Uniform Project

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 …

URGENT PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN GAZA

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 …

VOW’s 2023 AGM Review

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 …

VOW@COP28! We Call for Peace for Climate Justice and to Demilitarize to Decarbonize

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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 …

Let’s Go to the UN! Apply by January 5th to join VOW at the Commission on the Status of Women in March

You are invited to participate in the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) which is scheduled to be held from March 11th-22nd, 2024 at United Nations Headquarters, New York. The theme of the UN CSW and will consider the priority theme of “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and …