News and Updates
Take Action: Mount Allison should not be conferring an honorary degree for Deborah Lyons
On Nakba75, May 15, 2023, Canada's former Ambassador to Israel, Deborah Lyons will be receiving an honorary degree. Lyons has praised Israeli war criminals responsible for Palestinians' suffering, dispossession. But the University has not listened. So now it is time to...
Immediate release: Canada is urged to withdraw from the G20 meetings in Indian occupied Kashmir
This follows the members of the Kashmir Scholars Consultative Action Network along with 50+ organizations from around the world, 25+ which have members in Canada, which urged Canada and other G20 members to withdraw from G20 meetings planned for Indian-administered Jammu &...
Ontario NDP to apologize to Sarah Jama and stand in solidarity with detained Palestinians
On May 2 newly elected Ontario NDP MPP Sarah Jama re-tweeted Palestinian academic Noura Erakat’s statement on the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had just lost his life inside an Israeli jail after 86 days of hunger strike. Adnan, 45,...
Just Peace Advocates joins KSCAN & 50+ organizations to call for boycott of the G20 meetings in Kashmir
Organizations urge withdraw from G20 meetings planned for Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK) (including those reportedly being held on May 11 and May 22-24, 2023). We further urge your countries and organizations to immediately comply with your duties under international law and...
Jeffrey Sachs challenges Canadian policy on Ukraine
On May 3 world-renowned intellectual Jeffrey Sachs will speak to a Canadian audience about “The Path to Peace in Ukraine". He will be joined by University of Ottawa Ukraine expert Ivan Katchanovski who has published extensively on the 2014 coup against...
Anti-Sanctions Book Tour Canada, April 2023
During April 2023, an anti-sanctions book tour took place in Hamilton. Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, as well as a webinar. You can watch the webinar and materials to learn more about Canada's use of sanctions, and to purchase the book...
Stop arrests and harassment of human rights defenders in Kashmir
Dozens of organizations, and hundreds of individuals join Kashmir scholars, we submit this statement to express our deep concern over the Government of India's intensified repression of human rights work in the disputed region of Indian-Administered Jammu & Kashmir...
Karen Rodman, the activist
I often think of the words of the elder in Jayyus who told me, “You have the strength! “This along with the wisdom and strength of Palestinians and allies whom I have the honour to work with is key to...
Canadian book launch of “Sanctions, a wrecking ball in the global economy”
Canada has sanctions and related measures in place against a number of countries, as well as sanctions against specific individuals and entities identified as being: (i) responsible for, or complicit in, extrajudicial killings, torture or other gross violations of internationally...
Just Peace Advocates statement about the brutal Israeli attack at al-Aqsa
Under Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, all high signatories, of which Canada is one, are required to take actions to ensure that violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention do not occur under any circumstance. Thus, we hold the...