Conversation Starters: Rights-based conversations for mixed youth groups
This game designed for youth aged 12-19 invites them to reflect on fairness, respect, inclusion, and rights in their everyday lives while learning about children’s rights. It works well with mixed groups, including newcomer and non-newcomer youth, recognizing that youth spaces are shaped by many different experiences and backgrounds.
Allyship Sparks: Conversation Cards for Youth and their Adult Allies
These cards help young people aged 12+ and the adults who support them: parents, guardians, youth workers, teachers, coaches, mentors, etc. engage in honest, open and constructive dialogue about allyship across generations and in various settings.
Practicing Youth Allyship Through Human Rights
This tool outlines 7 key actions for practicing rights-based allyship. Adult allies are encouraged to use it to deepen self-awareness and set goals to strengthen their support for young people. Also available in French.
Celebrate National Child Day: Let’s Make Sure Kids Are Heard!
This activity, divided into two parts, invites young people to first discover or remember their rights, before letting them express themselves on a postcard to be sent to the federal Prime Minister. Also available in French.
Building solidarity and supporting partners in challenging times: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
The following lessons learned and best practices have been documented through the activities of the ACTIF working group. This working group brings together Canadian organizations that have received funding from the ACTIF Fund to carry out, in partnership with organizations in the South, projects that strengthen the respect, protection and fulfillment of the human rights […]
Dignity in Dialogue: THE POWER OF OUR COMMUNITIES. Centering and Activiting Collective Power
In celebration of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) and the start of Pride season, we hosted our second Dignity in Dialogue session with the support of the Act Together For Inclusion Fund (ACTIF). The conversation explored how we understand and use power in our movements—centering solidarity, narrative change, emotional strategy, and […]
5 Key Take-A-Ways on the Right to housing
This document gathers findings and recommendations from a roundtable hosted by the Simces & Rabkin Family Dialogue on Human Rights in partnership with Equitas and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights tackling the pressing issue of housing rights.
Promoting our results: Lessons learned and best practices
This document is a tip sheet called Promoting our results, presenting lessons learned and good practices that have been documented through the activities of the Act Together for Inclusion Fund (ACTIF) working group. Resource also available in French.
Decolonizing our Partnerships and Practices
The “Decolonizing our Partnership and Practices” knowledge package incorporates checklists and recommendations of how Equitas can decolonize our practices. To ensure participatory community engagement, Equitas staff and their international partners developed guidelines to encourage co-construction of tools and activities in human rights education with the local communities where we work. Also available in French.
Manifesto : We, the Montreal youth
This manifesto was generated through extensive dialogues consultations with over 250 Montreal youth and authored by Equitas with the intent of synthesizing, and amplifying the diverse reflections voiced by the youth. The manifesto serves as a call to action against racism, racial injustice, children’s rights violations, discrimination, and exclusion in the city.