
Significant environmental successes for our campaign
Our People and Planet First campaign has made encouraging progress on advocating for mandatory human rights and environmental de diligence laws, but we cannot rest yet.

Our People and Planet First campaign has made encouraging progress on advocating for mandatory human rights and environmental de diligence laws, but we cannot rest yet.

As part of the People and Planet First campaign, a group of Canadian high school students on a solidarity retreat sent messages of support to wrongly imprisoned human rights defenders in Honduras.

Generous support from Canadians is helping Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada’s partners provide legal and social support to persecuted human rights defenders in Honduras.

If COP26 negotiations are to amount to anything, approaches that prioritize people and penalize polluters will have to be chosen over false promises of technological salvation.

If COP26 negotiations are to amount to anything, rights and equity will have to be accorded much greater priority and Canada will have to do its fair share.

On Monday, May 31, 2021, Development and Peace — Caritas Canada joined other members of the Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability (CNCA) to launch a

Development and Peace — Caritas Canada and 75 other civil society organizations have signed a statement calling for increased official development assistance (ODA) contributions from

“The existing system hurts people and the planet and we are called to do better,” 200+ church elders warn world governments. Canadian Catholic leaders, including

Observed from February 7 to 13 this year, International Development Week offers people “an opportunity to pause and to acknowledge Canadian contributions to poverty reduction
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