Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
Canadian coalition calls for urgent action to uphold civil liberties and Charter rights at protests and encampments across the country May 15, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares joins call for Burma to end use of violence and respect democracy Feb 4, 2021 | Read more
Planning is resistance: Indigenous people in Burma envision a self-determined future May 23, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Jun 9, 2017 | Read more
Stopping the unstoppable: Citizen resistance to exterminator technology in Burkina Faso Sep 4, 2019 | Read more
The Immigrant Workers Centre to receive 2018 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award Apr 18, 2018 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Mar 11, 2019 | Read more
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Inter Pares and SUWRA launch Canadian civil society working group on Sudan Jun 25, 2024 | Read more
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Rejecting the Cult of Austerity resources : Bulletins Share Print In this issue: Rejecting the cult of austerity We all believe that countries need to live within their means, but what those means are, and how they are spent, is another matter. Medicare: We can afford compassion According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, we live in a richer country now than we have in decades. We can afford our public health care system. However, we must collectively choose to do so. Building cities of solidarity For thousands of undocumented immigrants across the country, cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver are their hopeful new homes, but also places where they are mistreated. Public financing for women’s rights Inter Pares believes that women’s health needs are a matter of human rights, and that national governments have an obligation to uphold these rights – not just on paper, but concretely through financing, policy, and service delivery. Mining and Development: Making policy as though nations, and people, mattered Recent World Bank and United Nations reports found that after the 2002-2007 commodities boom, over half of the population in resource-rich Southern countries were still living in extreme poverty. Worse, the number of extremely poor people living in the poorest countries actually increased by over 3 million per year during the boom period. In fact, poverty and inequality were being reduced more quickly in countries without natural resource wealth. Download (pdf 1.22 MB)