The trial of a truthteller: defending a persecuted Honduran journalist

Development and Peace is calling for the protection of Sonia Pérez, a grassroots journalist who is facing intimidation and harassment in Honduras.

A plea from Peru to the Canadian mining industry

Development and Peace’s Peruvian partner, CEAS, writes an open letter to delegates at one of the world’s largest extractive industry conventions.

Why modern slavery laws are not the answer

Although some groups support Bill S-211, Development and Peace and its allies think Canada needs much stronger due diligence laws to ensure corporate accountability.

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.

Feliz Navidad from Canadian kids to Honduran heroes!

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.

An Advent of freedom: the story of Víctor

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.

Beyond economics: humanizing climate action

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.

Preparing for COP26

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.

A new approach to corporate accountability

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

Category: Advocacy