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EquiTalks: Voices of Human Rights Education
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This is a podcast which seeks to elevate voices of human rights education – whether it’s the people working hard within Equitas, our partners in Canada and across the world, or maybe even you one day. We believe in sharing ideas about human rights and learning from each other to advance equality and social justice [...]

Honouring the human rights legacy of Max Yalden
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Throughout the years, Equitas has been fortunate to garner the support of various foundations and funds to assist in its mission to advance equality, social justice, and respect for human dignity around the world. One that has been supporting Equitas for several years is the Maxwell Yalden Fund. Max Yalden was a member of Equitas’ [...]

Moving towards racial justice
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The events of late spring of 2020 were a long overdue wake-up call for societies, not only in Canada but across the world. It highlighted how deeply engrained racist and colonial systems are within institutions. It raised acute awareness about how these systems negatively and violently impact folks who identify as Indigenous, Black, People of [...]

Call for application

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Advancing Gender Equality through Human Rights education Call for application Equitas is pleased to launch a call for applications to select civil society organizations to participate in the Advancing Gender Equality through Human Rights Education program in Tunisia and Morocco. Application deadline: July 22, 2022  Information session in French: July 4, 2022, at 2:00 pm [...]

Montreal 21k Charity Challenge – A successful race for Equitas!
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On April 23rd and 24th, 36 people ran and raised funds for Equitas in the Charity Challenge at Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal. More than $13 500 were raised this year for our third participation in the race.   We also counted on the support of a corporate partner, Accedian, a Montreal-based leader in performance analytics and end user experience [...]

John Smith: Challenging stigma and discrimination through human rights education in Guinea
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*Real name has been changed for safety reasons* John Smith is a founding member of Afrique arc-en-ciel Guinée, an NGO which has been striving to protect and defend the LGBTQ+ community in Guinea from false information, stigma, and discrimination since 2008. John participated in the first edition of Global Rights Connection – an innovative virtual [...]

Opening – Request for proposals for the mid-term evaluation of Equitas’ Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education program

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Equitas is commissioning the evaluation of its program Advancing Equality through Human Rights Education (AEHRE). This is a five-year initiative (2019-2024) supported primarily by Global Affairs Canada and being implemented in Burkina Faso, Haiti, Kenya, Senegal and Tanzania. The program also comprises international components targeting a global audience of human rights educators delivered in person [...]

EquiTalks 2022 – Elevating the voices of humans at the heart of defending human rights
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On March 22, more than 200 people from 47 different countries attended the EquiTalks – Heart, Humanity and Defending Human Rights panel discussion to listen to Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and other panelists. Participants shared that they were tuning in from places as far-ranging as Nepal, [...]
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