Useful Links

Our Vice President’s analysis of the role that NATO and the U.S. played in the lead-up to Putin’s criminal aggression against Ukraine. (Peter G. Prontzos, Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Interdisciplinary Studies, Langara College)

The Generation Equality Forum is a global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-chaired by France and Mexico, in partnership with civil society and youth.

This 8-point program presents a comprehensive foundation for re-orienting Canadian foreign and defence policies based on peace and disarmament, not on militarization, aggression and war. At this critical moment in world affairs as the ‘drums of war’ beat ever louder, we believe that such a fundamental re-alignment of Canadian policy is more urgent than ever.

Climate Convergence is a grassroots network of climate justice organizations and activists (Indigenous, Labour, Student, NGO and Communities of Faith). We are mobilizing to stop climate change and protect our air, land, and water from toxic pollution by corporations in the fossil fuel industry.

Bringing people together to take collective action and build grassroots community power as we work for a just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. With our members, supporters and chapter activists, we learn, organize and act together as we fight for clean water, fair trade, strengthened public health care, climate justice and democracy.

The Leap’s mission is to advance a radically hopeful vision for how we can address climate change by building a more just world, while building movement power and popular support to transform it into a lived reality.

Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. We direct our advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure our independence, we refuse government funding and carefully review all donations to ensure that they are consistent with our policies, mission, and values. We partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

Leadnow envisions a just, sustainable, and equitable Canada, built and defended through the democratic power of an engaged public. (Global Peace Alliance BC society encourages you to sign up for emails and help with their petitions)

I’m the Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a socialist, anti-imperialist news site founded in 2019. I have written about Canadian imperialism, federal politics, and left-wing resistance to colonialism across the world for Canadian Dimension, Palestine Chronicle, the Orinoco Tribune and Dissident Voice.

A new book on world peace by Dr. R.B. Herath. It has sparked interests among many community leaders in Surrey B.C, who even started a new global peace initiative under the name of Global Peace Alliance, Surrey Society

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.

The Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with consultative status to the United Nations and is comprised of over 60,000 individuals and groups worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age.

Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.

Develops and supports networks of social justice contacts in the following action group areas: Antipoverty, Antiracism, Environmental Justice, LGBTQ, Peace and Global
Education, Status of Women

Building Bridges believes that positive change is possible for individuals and for societies. And, individuals in Building Bridges experience profound, permanent change.

The Culture of Peace News Network (CPNN) is a project of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace, initiated by the United Nations, where readers exchange information about events, experiences, books, music, and web news that promote a culture of peace.

PeaceMaker challenges you to succeed as a leader where others have failed. Experience the joy of bringing peace to the Middle East or the agony of plunging the region into disaster. PeaceMaker will test your skills, assumptions and prior knowledge. Play it and you will never read the news the same way again.

The International Day of Peace, a.k.a. “Peace Day” provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. In 1981, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, adopted Resolution 36/67 establishing the International Day of Peace (IDP) which stated in part, “…to devote a specific time to concentrate the efforts of the United Nations and its Member States, as well as the whole of mankind, to promoting the ideals of peace and to giving positive evidence of their commitment to peace in all viable ways.”

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) is one of the world’s best recognized charities for children and a leading advocate for children, helping to build a world where the rights of every child are realized. Unique among world organizations and among those working with the young, UNICEF has the global authority to influence decision-makers and the grassroots partnerships to turn innovative, life-saving ideas into reality.