E-7556 Ethiopian conflict and human rights violations Petition Tracker | Signature Growth — Canadian Petition Tracker
Track E-7556 — Ethiopian conflict and human rights violations — with 575 signatures and counting. Sponsored by Gord Johns. See signature growth trends and provincial breakdown on PetitionTracker.ca.
Canonical URL: https://petitiontracker.ca/petition/e-7556
Petition Details
- Status: Active — open for signatures
- Closing date: October 28, 2026
- Sponsor: Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni)
- Category: Foreign affairs
Signature Statistics
- Total signatures: 575
- Daily increase: +4 in the last 24 hours
- Seven-day increase: +22 over the last 7 days
- Growth velocity: ~3 new signatures per day (7-day average)
- Tracking started: June 30, 2026 — 140 data points recorded
Milestones
- Debate threshold (500 signatures) reached on July 24, 2026 — total at that point: 501
Provincial Distribution
- Ontario: 253 signatures
- Alberta: 122 signatures
- Manitoba: 115 signatures
- Quebec: 27 signatures
- Saskatchewan: 24 signatures
- British Columbia: 23 signatures
- New Brunswick: 2 signatures
- Nova Scotia: 2 signatures
Historical Signature Growth
| Date | Signatures |
|---|
| June 30, 2026 | 10 |
| July 2, 2026 | 96 |
| July 4, 2026 | 156 |
| July 6, 2026 | 286 |
| July 8, 2026 | 346 |
| July 10, 2026 | 383 |
| July 12, 2026 | 403 |
| July 15, 2026 | 468 |
| July 18, 2026 | 485 |
| July 23, 2026 | 496 |
| July 27, 2026 | 535 |
| August 3, 2026 | 551 |
| August 12, 2026 | 564 |
| August 14, 2026 | 575 |
Petition Text
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
• Since early 2023 armed conflict in the Amhara region of Ethiopia has involved Ethiopian government forces carrying out indiscriminate violence and SGBV against civilian populations and infrastructure including through use of aerial strikes leaving more than 4.4 million children out of school and hundreds of thousands displaced;
• The Ethiopian government has carried out arbitrary detentions and torture of Amhara journalists, civil society leaders, members of parliament and opposition figures;
• The incumbent Prosperity Party administration won 90% of federal parliament seats in the June 2026 general election despite ongoing armed conflict, mass civilian displacement, suppression of civil society and opposition, and exclusion of major ethnic communities, making conditions for a free and inclusive vote impossible; and
• Canada provided over $147 million in 2024-2025 in development assistance to Ethiopia and maintains significant diplomatic, commercial, and humanitarian interests in the country and the Horn of Africa.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:
1. Consider the application of the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act to impose targeted sanctions on individuals credibly identified as responsible for grave human rights violations in Ethiopia;
2. Publicly demand an immediate ceasefire in the Amhara region and the unconditional release of all political prisoners, and prisoners of conscience held by the Ethiopian government; and
3. Publicly call on the Government of Ethiopia for strengthened transparency around the June 2026 general election results towards an inclusive democratic process.
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