September 2006 e-newsletter
Capital Gains Tax Eliminated on Gifts of Stock
As of the May 2006 federal budget, capital gains tax is no longer applicable on gifts of listed securities donated to Canadian charities. Now when you make a gift of publicly listed securities to Inter Pares, you can receive a tax receipt for the appreciated value but will not have to pay tax on any capital gains.
Your gift to Inter Pares will support the hard work and vision of courageous people around the world who are taking action to bring justice, peace, and equality to the world we all share. It will make a difference.
And with no capital gains tax to pay when you donate appreciated shares, bonds, warrants, units, segregated fund units, or prescribed debt obligations, these gifts now have a tax benefit that makes a gift of cash, making them a very attractive way to donate.
For more information, please contact:
Anne-Marie Zilliacus
Finance Director
Inter Pares
Phone : (613) 563 4801
Toll Free : 1-866-563-4801
Fax (613 594 4704
zilli@interpares.ca
New Video
Learn more about the health and human rights situation in Burma through watching a short film which focuses on the courageous work of mobile medical teams working among internally displaced communities. Please click here to view the film.
Inter Pares' E-NewsletterAs of the May 2006 federal budget, capital gains tax is no longer applicable on gifts of listed securities donated to Canadian charities. Now when you make a gift of publicly listed securities to Inter Pares, you can receive a tax receipt for the appreciated value but will not have to pay tax on any capital gains.
Your gift to Inter Pares will support the hard work and vision of courageous people around the world who are taking action to bring justice, peace, and equality to the world we all share. It will make a difference.
And with no capital gains tax to pay when you donate appreciated shares, bonds, warrants, units, segregated fund units, or prescribed debt obligations, these gifts now have a tax benefit that makes a gift of cash, making them a very attractive way to donate.
For more information, please contact:
Anne-Marie Zilliacus
Finance Director
Inter Pares
Phone : (613) 563 4801
Toll Free : 1-866-563-4801
Fax (613 594 4704
zilli@interpares.ca
New Video
Learn more about the health and human rights situation in Burma through watching a short film which focuses on the courageous work of mobile medical teams working among internally displaced communities. Please click here to view the film.
The Right to Humanity
In this e-newsletter:
- Letter of Introduction
- Excerpts from:
- The Right to Humanity
- A Common Sense of Humanity for Sudanese Women
- The Right to Determine our Future, Together
- Resources
- Exorcising Leopold's Ghost: Holding Canadian Corporations to Account
- Resources
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September 2006
Dear friend of Inter Pares,
The struggle for human rights - for dignity, self-determination, and life itself - continues in Burma, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Sudan, Canada and around the world. For the people whose stories are shared in this Bulletin, entitled The Right to Humanity, human rights mean the fundamental right to live free from violence, poverty and oppression.
We all have a role to play in strengthening these struggles. As an Inter Pares supporter, you play an active role in working towards sustainable change for the protection of human rights for all. Your commitment allows us to work in solidarity with people and organizations committed to social justice around the world.
As always, we welcome your comments.
Yours truly,
David Bruer
P.S. Your donations affirm the fundamental right of all to a life free from violence and oppression. We thank you for your support.
The Right to Humanity
On the night of September 11th, 1990, Myrna Mack Chang, a social anthropologist and human rights worker, let herself out of her darkened office in downtown Guatemala City after working late into the evening. At the time, Myrna was defying the oligarchy and U.S.-backed military machine in Guatemala to document the long and murderous campaign of terror they conducted against the Mayan peasants of her country. For this crime of resistance, their thugs came out of the shadows on this cold, wet night, and with their long knives savagely cut Myrna down in the street, two blocks from the National Palace.
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A Common Sense of Humanity for Sudanese Women
Over the last three decades, life has drastically changed for Sudanese women. They live in a country where parity of salary was adopted in the 1960s, and where the women's movement was once a vital force within civil society. The fundamentalist military regime that came to power through a coup in 1989 dismantled the women's movement, and profoundly changed women's lives throughout Sudan.
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The Right to Determine our Future, Together
It was early morning in November when the remote island village of Horinkhola, in the Khulna delta of Bangladesh, received word that a notorious industrialist was coming to take over their fields for shrimp farming. What he had sought and failed to obtain by legal means, he was determined to take by force. His hired army of 100 men landed, rushing onto the island firing shots and throwing bombs. Of the unarmed villagers who arrived at the scene, a woman named Karunamoi was the first to confront the attackers. They shot her in the head and she died on the spot.
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Resources
The Inter Pares photo essay The Price of Gold provides a closer look at the impact of mining development in Ghana. Through photographs and testimonies gathered in Ghana, the essay provides a glimpse of the impact of gold mining on communities and the environment and how citizens are organizing to defend their rights. Please click here to read the essay.
The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) is a network of individuals and organizations in Canada. Since 1989, COAT has published a magazine (Press for Conversion!), organized anti-war rallies and conferences, campaigned against military air shows and opposed Canada's arms exports to human rights abusers and countries at war. COAT's research exposed Canadian pension investments in war industries. Information and subscriptions: http://coat.ncf.ca/.
Exorcising Leopold's Ghost: Holding Canadian Corporations to Account
In her book, Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business (Random House Canada, 2003), Canadian journalist Madeleine Drohan describes how King Leopold II of Belgium annexed and ruled Africa's Congo from 1884 to 1906. The Congo was not a Belgian colony but rather the King's own personal business enterprise, and he sold shares in his venture to Europe's wealthy elite. Drohan notes that King Leopold has probably never been equaled for the savagery he inflicted on the Congolese people in his pursuit of profit. The death toll during his reign has been estimated to be between 8 and 10 million people, half of the Congo's population at the time.
Less than a century later, the scramble for the rich resources of the Congo continues...
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Resources
The Inter Pares Occasional Paper Beyond the Politics of the Possible: Corporations and the Pursuit of Social Justice is a discussion on corporate responsibility which argues for a fundamental reform of corporations and the assumptions under which they exist and operate. Available on line at http://www.interpares.ca/en/publications/index.php.
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