This April 24-26, thousands of people will join together in New York City for the Peace & Planet Mobilization for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, & Sustainable World to commemorate 70 years since the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This 2-min video highlights our power to resist the forces that threaten life on Earth.
Read this powerful statement on the CD’s ineffectiveness and seeming contempt for civil society.
Edith B was International President of WILPF for many years. Her life story is amazing!
This campaign has drawn together most major women’s and NGO organizations to get the key issues for women and girls into the upcoming Federal election.
All members are welcome to participate in the discussion, vote in elections, and send off our Hague delegates with well wishes.
For more information http://www.oxfam.ca/get-involved/take-action/events/extreme-inequality-and-womens-rights
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_69325.shtml
For Immediate Release: January 22nd, 2015 Vancouver – A hundred years ago, as the First World War raged across Europe, 1000 women from all over the world risked their lives to gather in the Hague, the Netherlands, to call for an end to hostilities. Many women were caught in naval blockades and never arrived, others […]
Dr. Angeles’s talk will deal with the differential impact of (post) crises and (post) disaster scenarios in southeast Asia’s Second Front on the War on Terror. She is Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Women’s and Gender Studies at UBC.
Patsy George is a philanthropist, public speaker and former social worker who is a lifelong volunteer and dedicated advocate for marginalized communities. She is a Women’s Rights activist and is currently a board member with Crossroads International. She is the past president of the United Nations Association of Canada (Vancouver). She was awarded the Order […]
