Canadian Network for Equity and Racial Justice
(CNERJ)
About Us
Canadian Network for Equity and Racial Justice (CNERJ) is being built with the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) as our foundational base, in collaboration with Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) and the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice (CCNCSJ). This initiative is part of the North American Partnership for Equity and Racial Justice, creating a trilateral network with experts from Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
Our Purpose
The purpose of the partnership is to share best practices and commit to taking concrete steps domestically and trilaterally to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and hate while striving towards cohesiveness between national laws and mutual commitments to international human rights conventions.
Opportunity
To establish a trilateral Network of Inclusion Experts to facilitate the exchange of information, share best practices and innovative strategies, and facilitate the pursuit of cross-border initiatives for advancing equity and racial justice in public policies and societies, and help identify further action areas for the Partnership.
Uniqueness
The network is anticipated to pursue the following thematic priorities:
- Seek opportunities to engage communities with lived experience of racism, discrimination, and hate
- Drive solutions to protect the rights of members of marginalized communities
- Advance health equity and economic inclusion
- Address racial and other disparities in the justice system
- Assist in access to the ballot
- Provide educational opportunities
- Reflect the diversity of the three countries in their federal public services workforce
- Bring researchers and activists together across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico