• Event: Stories from the Frontlines of the Honduran Teachers’ Struggle

    CoDev invites you to hear from Honduran teachers’ union member Dilcia Diaz, a coordinator with the CoDev supported Non-Sexist Pedagogy program.

    Hear from a front line activist (more…)

  • Dispatch #4: Young Worker’s Tour 2011

    Inspiration

    Having had some “down time” since the intensity of the young workers delegation to reflect on my experiences, I keep coming back to how inspirational our time in El Salvador was on a variety of levels. As a young worker myself, (more…)

  • Cordoba, Colombia: A dangerous place to be a union leader

    Guest Blogger Irene Lanzinger, B.C. Federation of Labour, shares a report from a recent CoDev delegation to Colombia.

    On Friday, December 2, Domingo Ayala, the president of the Teachers’ Union of Cordoba (ADEMACOR) walked into our hotel lobby. He was accompanied by the two armed (more…)

  • In Memory of Bob Rosen

    On November 22nd we at CoDev, along with so many others in our community, lost a dear friend and an incredible board member.  Bob Rosen was a dedicated and tireless advocate for CoDev as well as so many other organizations and causes. We miss him greatly and are honoured to have been a part of his life. (more…)

Building Partnerships for Global Justice

CoDevelopment Canada is a B.C.-based NGO that works for social change and global education in the Americas. Founded in 1985 by a group of activists who wanted to go beyond financial aid, CoDev builds partnerships between like-minded organizations in Canada and Latin America to foster learning, social change, and community empowerment.  These partnerships educate Canadians about Latin America and allow them to directly support the region. Such connections build solidarity, mutual understanding and ultimately improve prospects for a fairer global order.

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A Concert for Bob Rosen

Join Fraser Union, Solidarity Notes, and the Gram Partisans for an Evening of Music for Social Change!

Saturday, March 10, 2012
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
St. James Community Square, 3214 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver (more…)

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Kyla /

Categories: Events, Inside CoDev |

Buenaventura, Colombia: Where Free Trade Meets Mass Graves

“The FTA would deepen the crisis that we are living here because the FTA is synonymous with privatization and privatization is synonymous with unemployment, unemployment is synonymous with poverty and misery and misery is synonymous with loss of autonomy and sovereignty for our people and as a country.” Danelly Estupiñan, Afro-Colombian activist in Buenaventura, Colombia on the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. (FTA).

In this excellent article, (more…)

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Barbara /

Categories: Colombia, Human Rights |

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