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Karate and bodily autonomy: Helping girls in Bangladesh thrive through sport Dec 15, 2022 | Read more
Learning and Acting Together resources : Bulletins Share Print In this issue: Learning and acting together In September 2009, Inter Pares colleague Charm Tong testified before Canada’s Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. She explained how hundreds of thousands of people like her had become refugees as a result of the war conducted by the Burmese military junta. She described how the Burmese military had destroyed more than 3,000 villages in Burma’s ethnic states over the past decade. She spoke of torture and extrajudicial executions of civilians, forcible displacement, and the use of rape of ethnic women as a strategy of war. These are crimes, Charm Tong told the assembled parliamentarians, and requested that Canada play a role in calling for a UN Security Council Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. Educating and engaging through stories Inter Pares produced a documentary film, entitled Rising from the Ashes, about the courageous struggles of women in Peru seeking justice for crimes of violence, including sexual violence, committed against them during the civil war. Collaborating on health across borders Dr. Hillary Lawson, a physician at Ottawa’s Centretown Community Health Centre, works with recently arrived Karen refugees, many of whom had received health services through Dr. Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic in Thailand. Inter Pares organized a gathering last September between our colleagues from Burma and the Community Health Centre. There was much to share about the intersections of poverty, conflict, and the conditions that affect the health of people that both the Mae Tao Clinic and the Community Health Centre serve. Building movements, one conversation at a time Since 2003, the University of the Streets Café in Montreal creates gathering places for citizens to pursue lifelong learning and engage in public conversations. Ensuring corporate social responsibility The private wealth of corporations is generated through access to the environmental commons, public subsidies, infrastructure, a trained workforce, and our publicly funded social systems. We must ensure that corporations make a fair contribution back to the public good and to the protection of the environment. Download (pdf 1.57 MB)