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Health and Humanity: Connecting the Philippines and Canada

Inter Pares brought together Dr. Junice Melgar, Director of Likhaan, and Mike McBane, then Coordinator of the Canadian Health Coalition.

Iday Simbajon: Solidarity in the face of Typhoon Haiyan

Iday Simbajon is a community health worker living in Metro Manila, the Philippines.

Rita Morbia

Rita works on issues related to women’s rights, feminist movement-building, and health, including sexual and reproductive rights, in Canada, Africa and Asia.

David Bruer

David’s work at Inter Pares focuses on food sovereignty and economic justice issues in Asia.

Health Workers with Grassroots Responses to Crisis

This bulletin is about disasters and disease outbreaks that demand a response. Inter Pares counterparts are ideally placed to provide effective solutions.

Junice Melgar: Filipina women speaking for themselves

Dr. Junice Melgar of Likhaan, an Inter Pares counterpart, shares her story of listening to grassroots women.

Public financing for women’s rights in the Philippines

Likhaan, a women’s health organization in the Philippines, advocates for universal healthcare and reproductive rights.

Rejecting the Cult of Austerity

This Bulletin examines the possibilities enabled by fair and just taxation policies, in Canada and in the South.

The Gradual Instant: Change from the Ground Up

We do not wait for change to come – we make change every day.

Health is always political: The work of Likhaan and the Mae Tao Clinic

Inter Pares facilitated an exchange between the Mae Tao Clinic for Burmese refugees and Likhaan in the Philippines.

Health Care in Paradise

An exchange between Likhaan in the Philippines and the Mae Tao Clinic on the Burma-Thai border.

Health is Always Political

People feel their poverty less when they have the skills to influence social institutions to meet their demands.

The Land We Call Home

In every place that Inter Pares works, a central issue is the uncertainty people face about their future on the land.

The Future is Now

Young people in Peru, in Sudan, in the Philippines, and in Canada are building the future they want, now.

Economic Justice: Sharing the collective wealth

Achieving equity requires that people who are benefiting today from inequity be prepared to give up some of their benefits.

Lessons from the Philippines: Public Health, Privatization, and Women's Activism

Public health care globally has been privatized and downsized, and even less accessible to those who need it most