News & Events
Small Sips: Water, Mining, and Human Rights
“Environmental justice is human justice. When communities don’t have clean water, when children grow up in mining-affected areas, when waste and pollution shape...
Small Sips: WASH for Menstrual Health
Menstrual Hygiene Day takes place every May 28. It is a global movement to break the silence and challenge the taboos around menstrual...
Days for Girls: Working towards a period-friendly world (Recording)
"Every day, millions of women and girls are denied dignified, healthy ways to manage their menstrual cycle. Let’s provide them with the supplies,...
Crystal Clear – or Clouded? Rethinking Clean Water in Canada (Recording)
Do you know what is in your drinking water? Across Canada, people are becoming more informed and beginning to question how drinking water...
Revisiting the UN Charter in a Changing Global Order (Recording)
As the UN enters a new era — with the appointment of a new Secretary-General — questions of reform have taken on renewed...
Stephen Lewis Memorial Service (Recording)
For those who were unable to attend the live service celebrating Stephen’s life and legacy, a recording is available. It is filled with...
Small Sips: Climate-Resilient WASH
Climate Change The climate crisis is a water crisis. Climate change is affecting water cycles and weather patterns and increasing the frequency and...
From Risk to Resilience: Strengthening Communities through Climate-Resilient WASH (Recording)
GRAN Earth Day learning event with guest speaker Adnan Qader, Manager for Water Governance and Resilience at WaterAid Canada. Adnan highlights the increasing...
Pharmaceutical company refuses to sell life-saving HIV drug to Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
"Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly, long-acting HIV prevention tool, represents one of the most promising advances towards ending AIDS as a public health threat to...
World Health Day
April 7 marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948, and is now celebrated as World Health...