KAIROS works with advocacy, solidarity, and global partnership program partners in Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Asia on issues related to climate change, environmental justice, indigenous rights, and corporate accountability. Some of the key partners mentioned include Oilwatch Africa, Accion Ecologica, Innabuyog, and the World Student Christian Federation. KAIROS also sends delegations to international conferences like COP17 to advocate on these issues alongside its global partners.
2. from KAIROS POLICY ON PARTNERSHIPS
currently under revision
• The same mission that calls churches together
in Canada also calls churches to work together
with partner organizations in Canada and
around the world.
• The unique characteristics and perspectives of
KAIROS’s relationships with Southern partners
also inform all KAIROS relationships: solidarity,
respect, mutuality, integrity, and
accountability.
3. KAIROS recognizes that the
historical disparities between
and among people of the
global North and South are
injustices to which God calls
us to bear witness. The
wealth of societies in the
global North has often been
accumulated at the expense
of people in the global South,
as well as in the North.
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5. A.2. The Scope of KAIROS B. CATEGORIES OF
Partnerships PARTNERSHIPS
In Canada, KAIROS works through • B.1. ADVOCACY PARTNERS
and with a number of
coalitions, networks, and
organizations. Some of these
relationships are formal and long
term, while others are informal and
• B.2. SOLIDARITY PARTNERS
temporary.
In the global South, KAIROS
partners with many • B.3. KAIROS-FUNDED
organizations, including
churches, church-related PARTNERS: GLOBAL
organizations, people’s
movements, coalitions, and PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
networks.
(GPP)
Some KAIROS partnerships in the
global South involve providing funds
for partner programs, while others from KAIROS POLICY ON PARTNERSHIPS
do not. Whether or not funding is currently under revision
involved, all partnerships in the
global South include the sharing of
information, joint advocacy
efforts, and solidarity.
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7. Advocacy Partners
in Canada
• Canadian Council for International Cooperation
-Africa-Canada Forum
-Americas Policy Group
- Asia-Pacific Working Group
• Canadian Council for Refugees
• Canadian Environmental Network / Le Réseau Canadien de
l'environnement
• CAN - Climate Action Network - Canada/ Réseau Action Climate -
Canada
• Climate Justice Now!
• Common Frontiers
• Halifax Initiative
• Réseau œcuménique justice et paix (ROJeP)
8.
9. Solidarity Partners
• Canadian Network for Corporate Accountability
• Hemispheric Social Alliance
• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility -
U.S.
• Jubilee South
• MiningWatch Canada
• Regroupement pour la responsabilité sociale et
l'équité (RRSE)
• Via Campesina
10.
11. GPP Partners in Africa
AWEPON
• The African Women Economic Policy Network (AWEPON) is
a membership organization registered in Uganda that
focuses on the promotion of gender equity and economic
justice.
• KAIROS' current partnership focuses on AWEPON's
relatively new climate change program component,
including the relation between climate change and food
security. AWEPON proposes to work in Tanzania and
Uganda on a program that includes training women, as
food producers, in ecologically sensitive approaches.
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12.
13. AIMES
The African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society
• a pan-African network inspired by the Third World
Network-Africa (TWN-A.
• KAIROS partnership with AIMES focuses on the industrial
impacts on food security in Africa and the development of
own civil society alternatives for land use in Africa that
address food security needs.
• Analysis and engagement will be based on three pillars:
human rights, environment and economic development.
15. Oilwatch Africa
• Oilwatch Africa coordinates work across 15 countries in Africa
and is hosted by Environmental Rights Action (ERA), in
Nigeria.
• The Oilwatch International network is dedicated to
developing global strategies for communities affected by the
oil operations and supporting their efforts to ensure
ecological sustainability.
• Oilwatch Africa makes an effort to raise the environmental
conscience at the global level, exposing industry impacts on
tropical forests and local populations, as well as establishing
the relationship between land use and consumption and the
destruction of biodiversity, climate change, food security and
violations of human rights.
17. World Student Christian Federation
• The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), Africa
Region program, promotes the union of 26 national
Student Christian Movements (SCMs) and is an
association of youth, students and members of
academic communities throughout Africa.
• KAIROS partnership with WSCF will focus on mobilizing
and harnessing the enthusiasm of youth and student
leaders in the area of climate change mitigation and
adaptation approaches to sustainable agricultural
development and food security in DRC, Kenya and
Sudan
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21. Asia Partners
Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the
Philippines (EcuVoice)
Works to build secure and sustainable communities, particularly in areas experiencing
military conflicts or environmental harm
In 2007, an international delegation of church leaders, human rights defenders and
victims made representations to the governments of Canada, the U.S., and the
European Union on the state of political killings in the Philippines targeting community
leaders, including youth and student leaders.
KAIROS partnership with EcuVoice focuses on addressing human rights violations and
strengthening good governance to improve national protection frameworks that
promote and protect the safety and security of children and youth, particularly of
young women in areas of conflict.
23. RIMM/Innabuyog,
•
RIMM: International Women and Mining Network/Red
Internacional de Mujeres y Mineria is a network aimed at
promoting the rights of women to land tenure as they face
loss of access to resources and land as larger areas are being
claimed for use for big agribusiness and extractive operations.
• Innabuyog is an alliance of indigenous women's organizations
in the Cordilleras in Northern Philippines. committed to
promoting Indigenous women's rights, including the right to
land, access and control of their land to promote sustainable
agricultural development and food security. Innabuyog
functions as the secretariat for RIMM in Asia.
25. Vernie Diano Yocogan, from Innabuyog
with Women of Courage delegation in Barrancabermeja,
Colombia
26. JATAM, Indonesia
JATAM, a network of 26 NGOs and community-based groups
in Indonesia working, since 1985, directly with communities
and Indigenous peoples on human rights, gender and the
environment
JATAM is a response to environmental, displacement and food
security challenges that occur as a result of resource
extraction.
KAIROS partnership with JATAM was established in 2002.
27. Siti Maemunah, Board member of JATAM
Participated in the Ecumenical Conference on Mining and the KAIROS
circle meetings
28. The Pacific Council of Churches,
Fiji A regional ecumenical organization with a membership of 34
Pacific churches and nine National Councils of Churches.
• Works on promoting human rights and ecological justice, focusing
on climate change and its visible impact in the Pacific.
• Adaptation is an urgent issue facing the Pacific people as some
Pacific islands are on the verge of sinking, requiring relocation of
whole communities
• PCC-KAIROS partnership focuses specifically on Kiribati, Tuvalu and
Tahiti, working with their member churches in those countries.
29. KONTRAS, Indonesia
KONTRAS is committed to documenting human rights violations, exposing military
and paramilitary abuses and educating the people in general to end impunity in
Indonesia.
KONTRAS plays a lead role in pushing the Indonesian government to investigate
past military abuses, particularly those involving youth and students as victims,
demanding convictions for those proven guilty and compensation for victims (and
the families of victims) of human rights violations and military atrocities.
KONTRAS has been a KAIROS partner since 2002. The current partnership focuses
on monitoring, documentation and advocacy related to the human rights impacts
of conflict on young women and men. KONTRAS has started a Human Rights
School to educate and train youth on various national and international human
rights instruments, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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31.
32. Partners in Latin America
• 5 partners in Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico,
and Ecuador as well as regional partner
• Focus on issues of Indigenous rights, women’s
rights, resource extraction, impunity
• Work with impacted communities and
bridging them with national and regional
policy and advocacy networks
33. CEIBA, (Association for Community
Development and Promotion) Guatemala
• works with communities in four departments and 17 municipalities
in Guatemala, providing human rights support and integral
community development. Increasingly, these communities with
have been impacted by resource extraction industrial agriculture, as
well as by climate change.
• CEIBA has accompanied close to 50 community, working with local
authorities, in consultations on mining
• Networks: Friends of the Earth, MOVIAC (movement of Victims of
Climate change), Latin America Network of Women Defenders of
social, economic and environmental rights
34. An Indigenous woman from Huehuetenango,Guatemala
CEIBA brought community members, impacted by mining, to the
Americas Social Forum in Guatemala City, October 2008
35. Naty Atz Sunuc, Director of CEIBA
Participated in the G20 tour in June 2010, The Ecumenical mining
conference and KAIROS circle meeting in May 2011
36. Centro Tepeyac Human Rights Centre,
Mexico
• Founded by the Diocese of Tehuantepec in 1992
• has monitored and documented human rights violations of the
Indigenous peoples in the region.
• In a region with great bio diversity, they are seeing new levels of
hunger and malnutrition related to the impacts of climate change
and unsustainable industrial practices that lead to ecological
degradation.
Tepeyac is an important partner in understanding the impacts
resource extraction and climate change on the food security and
livelihoods of Indigenous communities.
• Networks: REMA (Mexican network on Mining), Friends of the Earth
39. Accion Ecologica, Ecuador
• founded in 1986 and recognized as one of the lead environmental
groups in Ecuador for its work with Indigenous and peasant
communities as well as its policy development at a national and
international level.
• works on a range of environmental issues ranging from local
transportation and recycling to mining, petroleum, biodiversity and
agro fuels.
• important partner in work with Jubilee South, instrumental in the
development of the concept of Ecological Debt
• Networks: Jubilee South, Oilwatch, OCMAL (Observatory of Mining
Conflicts in Latin America, Latin America Network of Women
Defenders of social, economic and environmental rights
40. Gas flare reflected in a tailings pond
Taken during the Toxi tour, organized by Accion Ecologica
41. Young girl from a Cofan community
A community that peaceful shut down the oil well in their community
and has resisted oil exploitation ever since
42. George Poitras from Fort Chipewayn
Talks about the impacts of the Tar Sands on his community to Indigenous
communities in the Ecuador
43. Latin America Council of Churches
(CLAI)
•
an ecumenical council of over 150 churches and Christian networks
from 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, founded in
1982.
In recent years, CLAI has been exploring programs on sustainability
and climate change at a regional level and developing a program in
the area of human rights and military conflict.
• In Colombia, CLAI was instrumental in the formation of an
ecumenical network involving 12 church organizations which seeks
to define joint action and policy work on human rights.
Networks: WCC and councils of churches worldwide, AGAPE
(Wealth, Poverty and Ecology) process
44. Organizacion Femenina Popular (OFP),
Colombia
• A grassroots women's organization in Magdalena Medio, Colombia, founded in
1972 as a program of the Diocese of Barrancabermeja. The OFP now has a
membership of 5,000 women in the region of Magdalena Medio and runs 22
women's centers, offering programs which include integrated community
development, human rights of women, education and advocacy.
• The OFP is also a leader for human rights and peace at a regional and national
level, forming part of national and international networks of women against the
war. In the last five years, KAIROS has supported the OFP in building a regional and
national network of women against the war, based on its work with grassroots
women.
KAIROS has been supporting the work of the OFP financially since 2001, but
ecumenically the churches have a longer history of supporting the advocacy work
of OFP and other human rights organizations in Barrancabermeja, a region that has
experienced some of the worst human rights abuses and crimes against humanity
in Colombia
45. A meeting at one of the women’s centres run by the Popular Women’s
Organizacion (OFP) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
47. The Popular Women’s Organization (OFP) participating
the National Youth Assembly and March, October, 2003
48. KAIROS Delegation to UNFCCC COP17
in Durban
• Jim Davis, KAIROS
• Dr. Julia Edwards, Climate Change
Researcher/Advisor for the Pacific Conference
of Churches
• Jackson Kentebe, Oilwatch Africa
• Ivonne Yanez, Accion Ecologica/Oilwatch
South America
• Georgine Kengne Djeutane, World Student
Christian Fellowship – Africa Region
