Rana Plaza: this cannot be the norm
Canada can and must legislate to halt the havoc that giant global corporations in the fashion and mining industries are wreaking across the planet, from Bangladesh to Brazil and beyond.
Canada can and must legislate to halt the havoc that giant global corporations in the fashion and mining industries are wreaking across the planet, from Bangladesh to Brazil and beyond.
Raquel Soto, our first Share Lent solidarity visitor in five years, came from Colombia to share her message of hope and inspire us with her peasant woman’s quest for defending her territory poetically through filmmaking. Here’s a look at the Quebec leg of her visit.
A decade since fast fashion and commercial greed claimed the lives of over 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh, we are rallying to pay homage to their memory and to demand fairer terms and stricter legal protections for workers everywhere.
In solidarity with our partners’ and their communities’ struggles against mining-related injustices in the Global South, our members mobilize in the industry’s hometown to denounce, protest, educate about and advocate against its abusive practices.
On this International Day of Human Fraternity, let us heed Pope Francis’s call to “promote a culture of peace” and work to ensure that no one can treat another’s territory like “a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.”
Acting as a member of national and international civil society coalitions, Development and Peace ― Caritas Canada apprises Canada’s minister of foreign affairs of the violence and repression with which the Peruvian state is responding to a deepening political crisis.
For more than a year, our members have been working to get Canada to adopt due strong diligence legislation to govern Canadian companies operating abroad. This is a look at our successes.
Our Colombian partner, the Asociación Campesina de Antioquia, has published its first update on activities conducted under the aegis of an international solidarity project funded by the Government of Quebec.
As his country descends into violence, turmoil and repression, one of our Peruvian partners offers an astute analysis of the situation and calls for the political elite to heed the people.
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