Canadians across the country call for an end to killings of Colombian rights...
In Colombia almost 700 rights defenders and over 135 former FARC members have been assassinated since January 2016. Those killed include community leaders, teachers, trade unionists, representatives of...
View ArticleHoliday Open House
CoDev and Cafe Etico invite you! Thursday, December 12 4:00-8:00 pm 260-2747 East Hastings Street
View ArticleCUPE Delegation to Cuba – Reflections
CUPE Delegation with SNTAP Reps. During the week of November 10-16, 2019, CoDev Executive Director, Steve Stewart traveled to Cuba with delegates from CUPE National and CUPE BC. What follows are a...
View ArticleIndigenous Guatemalan Activist speaks out about Vancouver Mining Corporation...
Demonstration in support of Xinka communities outside the Beatty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia. The museum is named for Panamerican Silver founder Ross Beatty. By Wendy...
View ArticleCoDev Annual Dinner Rescheduled
Join us on Saturday, 17 October 2020 To all of our Friends and Supporters, We hope this post finds you safe and healthy. Dessert auction admirers at the 2019 Solidarity Dinner. We wanted to take a...
View ArticleCoDevelopment Canada stands with communities resisting racism
CoDevelopment Canada stands with and supports the black community and all racialized communities; every day, everywhere to end racism in all forms. Recent deaths of members of the black community in...
View ArticleAmericas Policy Group Concerned About OAS Meddling in Human Rights Commission...
Organization of American States (OAS) General Secretary Luis Almagro has increasingly sought to control what are traditionally arms-length institutions of the organization. Most recently, Almagro has...
View ArticleUrgent Action: Solidarity with Nicaraguan Women’s Rights Organizations
Solidarity with Maria Elena Cuadra Movement of Employed and Unemployed Women (MEC), and other Nicaraguan women’s rights organizations. Background CoDev has received an appeal from our Nicaraguan...
View ArticleCoDev Exec Director Testifies to Citizenship and Immigration Committee
Last December, CoDev Executive Director Steve Stewart, in his capacity of Co-Chair of the Americas Policy Group (a national coalition of organizations working for human rights and development in the...
View ArticleExiled Honduran Teacher Thanks Canadian Supporters
Exiled Honduran teacher leader Jaime Atilio Rodriguez In late October 2019, Honduran teacher activist Jaime Rodriguez was abducted, tortured, thrown off a bridge and left for dead. He survived, and...
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