The Right to Food
- Meet with your MP in advance of the federal Budget to ask them to support our request that Canada follow through on its promise to increase international assistance each year. Click here to access talking points and resources to help you prepare for your meeting.
- Participate in our postcard campaign to the Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, to encourage increased international assistance with a focus on programs that will strengthen food systems by supporting smallholder farmers and nature-based solutions. Click here for more details.
Ending Violence against women and girls
- Stand in solidarity with women, girls and forcibly displaced people in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced into terrible living conditions in camps outside the provincial capital of Goma and elsewhere in the region. An inadequate humanitarian response has people unable to meet even their most basic needs, and has exposed people to outbreaks of disease and to additional violence – including shocking levels of sexual violence against women and girls. For months, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has been trying to raise the alarm on this critical emergency. To ensure that Canada’s response goes beyond words, MSF is submitting a Parliamentary Petition calling on Canada to increase its humanitarian assistance for DRC in 2024. If this petition receives enough signatures, it will be presented in Canada’s House of Commons, and the government will be required to table a response. Click here to sign the online petition. Petition closes March 29, 2024.
