REMINDER - Launch of Canadian Network for Equity and Racial Justice ( Ottawa - June 7, 2024 )
Colour of Poverty
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OCASI, COLOUR OF POVERTY – COLOUR OF CHANGE, CHINESE CANADIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL for SOCIAL JUSTICE, GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
OTTAWA LAUNCH
CANADIAN NETWORK FOR EQUITY AND RACIAL JUSTICE (CNERJ)
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2024
1:30 – 5 PM
In 2023, as part of the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City, the Hon Mélanie Joly (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada), the Hon Marcelo Ebrard (Minister of Foreign Relations of United Mexican States), and the Hon Antony Blinken (U.S. Secretary of State) signed the Declaration on the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice.
The purpose of the Partnership is to share best practices and commit to taking concrete steps domestically and trilaterally to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and hate while striving towards cohesiveness between national laws and mutual commitments to international human rights conventions.
One of these commitments is to establish a trilateral Network of Inclusion Experts to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
The Network will be an ongoing working group composed of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, media, academia, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors.
The Canadian Network for Equity and Racial Justice ( CNERJ ) is the organization responsible for setting-up the Canadian chapter of the Network, which will galvanize the sectors noted above around the North American initiative. The Network is anticipated to pursue the following thematic priorities:
- Seek opportunities to engage communities with lived experience of racism, faithism, discrimination and hate.
- Drive solutions to protect the rights of members of marginalized communities.
- Advance health equity and economic inclusion.
- Address racial and other disparities in the justice system.
- Assist in access to the ballot.
- Provide educational opportunities; and,
- Reflect the diversity of the three countries in their federal public services workforce
CNERJ will be launched on Friday June 7, 2024 in Ottawa and will feature speakers from the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States as well as leaders from Canadian civil society organizations involved in labour, media, anti-racism advocacy and others. There will also be performances from Indigenous and artists of colour.
For more information please contact - Charles C. Smith, Project Lead at - charle...@rogers.com - or - cn...@ocasi.org
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