News and Updates
Take Action: A year since the arbitrary detention of Human Rights Defender Khurram Parvez by India
It is a year since Khurram Parvez, a leading global human rights defender was arbitrarily detained at his residence in Srinagar in Indian occupied Kashmir. Join the call for action in Canada and internationally.
Kick Out Apartheid! As the World Cup opens, kick off the campaign for justice in sport
AS THE WORLD CUP BEGINS...KICK OFF FOR THE #KICKOUTAPARTHEID CAMPAIGN! It’s time to score a goal for Palestine! We are launching the global #KickOutApartheid campaign with our new website dedicated to the campaign for justice in sports, to the World Cup and...
Silencing Palestine in the Education System
Contact your local school board (administration, trustees, educators) and share the webinar and the anti-Palestinian racism report for the Canadian Lawyers' Association. Contact local federations, unions and other organizations involved in education including parent organizations, and your provincial/territorial Ministry...
Prime Minister, honour your word, no second extradition of Hassan Diab
Let Prime Minister Trudeau know you call on him and his government to honour his words by taking action now to end Dr. Hassan Diab’s long and devastating ordeal. Dr. Diab is an innocent man who must be rescued from the offensive rulings...
Webinar (Nov. 19, 1300 ET): Silencing Palestine in the Education System
The webinar will explore how Palestine is covered in Israeli textbooks as well as Palestinian education in East Jerusalem and the West Bank/Gaza. In a bid to stop Canadian funding for Palestinian refugee education the Israel lobby regularly disparages Palestinian...
It’s that time of the year when UN votes on Palestine. Don’t expect a substantial change from Canada.
It is that time of year again! The UN votes on Palestine! Nothing new– Canada’s vote at the UN since 1947 shows at best conditional support for Palestine,
Just a week until the World Cup — AFC called to insist FIFA suspend Israeli Football Association
We have written to AFC (Asian Football Association) telling them now is the time that the AFC hold FIFA and the UEFA accountable to suspend the Israeli Football Association its violations of the FIFA and UEFA statues.
CPPIB Public Meetings Report 2022
From October 4th to November 1st, 2022, dozens of activists showed up at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) biannual public meetings. Attendees in Vancouver, Regina, Winnipeg, London, Halifax, and St. John demanded that the Canada Pension Plan, which...
Let Canada know you insist that it upholds its Third Party responsibility in regard to Palestine
Take one-minute and write to Foreign Affairs Minister Joly and ask her if she has responded to the request from Al-Haq that Canada intervene immediately to comply with its legal obligation to address Israel’s settler-colonial and apartheid regime.
Membres du Groupe interparlementaire Canada-Israël (GICI) de la délégation parlementaire du Bloc québécois : Que le Canada dise à Israël : cessez de tuer les enfants de la Palestine !
On dit que la candeur est le meilleur témoignage de l’amitié. Puisque le Groupe interparlementaire Canada-Israël promeut « une amitié plus étroite », ainsi qu’une « coopération plus soutenue » entre les députées et députés au Parlement canadien et celles et ceux à la...