January 2008

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International Development Week Activities, February 4th and 9th

January 29, 2008 in Uncategorized by community

As part of International Development Week (Feb 3-9), Horizons of Friendship will be involved in two film screenings in Ontario.

 On February 4th, Horizons will be showing the film, Killer’s Paradise, as part of the activities organized by Studies in National and International Development (SNID) at Queen’s University in Kingston.  Since 2000, over 3000 women have been murdered in Guatemala, with numbers escalating every year.  Yet lawmakers continue to turn a blind eye.  Killer’s Paradise examines the femicide phenomenon in Guatemala and exposes the impunity allowed by an inept justice system.
Place: Mac-Corry Hall, room B204
Time: 1 – 2:30pm

Horizons of Friendship is an active member in the HIV/AIDS Working Group of the Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC).  On February 9th, the group, in conjunction with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, will be screening the film Positive Voices: Leading Together, a documentary that profiles five HIV-positive community leaders working for change, set in the context of the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto.  The film will be followed by a Q&A session with Lisungu Chieza and Art Zoccole.
Place: National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque, 150 John Street, Toronto
Time: 2pm
Cost: $5/Pay What You Can

For more information about these events, please contact:
Michelle Switzer
Community Outreach/Communications Coordinator
905-372-5483 x.24
mswitzer@horizons.ca

Human Rights in Guatemala: Public Forum Jan. 16, 2008

January 3, 2008 in Events by community

Where’s The Peace?  Why Protection of Human Rights Defenders is Still Necessary

Peace Brigades International (PBI) and Horizons of Friendship will be cohosting a speaking event in Cobourg on January 16, 2008, which will look at the human rights situation in Guatemala since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996. 

Owen Campbell , a Canadian volunteer with PBI, has recently returned from spending 12 months providing protective accompaniment to some of the most threatened human rights defenders in Guatemala.  He will speak about his experiences as a volunteer and his observations on the realities of human rights workers in Guatemala.

More than 10 years after the signing of the Peace Accords, Guatemala suffers from conflict and an environment of violence that is comparable to the years of the war.  In 2006, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention and torture, blamed the Guatemalan government for doing little to stop the violence.

When and Where: January 16 at 7pm, Horizons of Friendship, 50 Covert Street, Cobourg

For more information, please contact PBI-Canada at 613-237-6968 or by email at info@pbicanada.org.  Or you can contact Michelle Switzer at Horizons of Friendship at 905-372-5483 x. 24 or by email at mswitzer@horizons.ca