ABOVE GROUND

Above Ground builds on the work of the Halifax Initiative, a coalition of Canadian civil society organizations that played a leadership role in advocating for just international economic policy and corporate accountability from 1994 to 2015. In 2015, staff from the Halifax Initiative created Above Ground, which is a project on MakeWay's shared platform... Above Ground is committed to principles of dignity, independence, integration and equal opportunity... Above Ground works to ensure that companies based in Canada or supported by the Canadian state respect human rights wherever they operate. We shed light on how Canadian business activities abroad are contributing to some of the biggest human rights crises of our times, from threats to Indigenous peoples' survival to the global climate emergency. We advance solutions to hold Canadian companies to account for their impacts abroad, and to secure access to justice for victims of abuse.

Primary location: Vancouver