FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (February 2nd, 2011, Winnipeg, MB) Children in Winnipeg learn about human rights and how to be active in their communities through Play it Fair!   On February 2nd, 2011, 28 representatives of 14 different organizations providing after school programming for children and youth in Winnipeg will participate in a new training session […]

Citizenship Education in the Middle East and North Africa: A path to sustainable democracy, peace and security  In the political systems in the Arab world, a citizen’s role is generally reduced to his or her allegiance to the State. The notion of citizenship is interpreted restrictively and the full rights of citizens are not recognized. […]

Speaking Rights is a new Equitas program that engages 13-17 year old youth in exploring human rights issues and identifying strategies to combat discrimination and exclusion while promoting respect for diversity. The program centers on the active participation of youth by developing their ability to discuss issues that are important to them and to work […]

“After more than 10 months of planning, generating ideas and proposals to conduct the East African Human Rights Program in Nairobi…it’s real…it’s happening now, as a group of six dynamic facilitators are out here engaging in this tremendous discourse with 31 human rights defenders from East Africa on human rights education for action.”  So wrote […]

Enthusiasm was running high on International Youth Day when more than 100 children between the ages of 6 and 12 geared up at the Parc Lasalle Day Camp in Lachine to participate in the second annual Play It Fair! event – an initiative of Equitas. On this day, more than 4,000 children in 6 cities […]

Earlier this summer, Equitas hosted an Open House for partners and some of our long-time donors to spend a full day at the International Human Rights Training Program, Equitas’ cornerstone program. Our guests were introduced to the program and were given the opportunity to join the participants in a session where they simulated the monitoring […]

For the 31st year in a row, Equitas welcomed 127 human rights defenders and educators from over 60 countries to its one of a kind training program. The International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) took place from June 6 to June 25 at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. The participants, courageous and dynamic individuals working […]

Equitas is pleased to announce that Margaret Sekaggya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders has accepted our invitation to serve on Equitas’ Honorary Board. As member of the Honorary Board, Mrs. Sekaggya joins a group of distinguished individuals who are committed to Equitas’ mission of advancing equality, social justice and […]

The first sub-regional Human Rights Training Session (HRTS) in francophone West Africa was held from February 14 to 26, 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. During the two-week workshop, 30 human rights activists from Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Senegal actively participated in the training, learning how to implement effective human rights education activities. “We owe the […]