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Working for Change Among Equals
In this issue: The Future of International SolidarityOver forty years, we have witnessed incredible change in the countries where we work. While some rights have been gained, others become threatened....
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2015 Highlights
Globally, Inter Pares works with organizations engaged in building a more equitable world. Here are some highlights of what we’ve accomplished together in 2015. Read it online. Language...
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Help nurture health equality in the Philippines
Iday Simbajon is a community health worker in the Philippines. Life has not been easy for Iday and other women in poor communities. “Women were very much oriented towards only serving their men and...
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Women's Health & Women's Rights
In this issue: Controlling Their Own Bodies, Controlling Their Own LivesThe establishment of four reproductive health clinics in the Philippines and the promotion of sexual and reproductive health of...
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Controlling Their Own Bodies, Controlling Their Own Lives
Dindi was 15 years old when she accompanied her 13 year-old-friend to a Manila hospital. Her friend was pregnant, scared, and hemorrhaging. She barely survived. This experience had a profound impact....
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From Midwifery to National Healthcare, Step by Step
By Rebecca WolsakI pulled up a pink plastic chair and sat amongst the young women. Each from a different Karen village outside the town of Pa-An in Burma where we now sat, all looked to be about twenty...
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Inter Pares Film Night - Women's Health and Rights in the Philippines
This month, Inter Pares is screening a 30-minute film from one of our counterparts, Likhaan Centre for Women's Health. In their film Sulingan (Refuge), which presents three vignettes that share stories...
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Highlights 2016: Inter Pares' year in review
Globally, Inter Pares works with organizations engaged in building a more equitable world. Here are some highlights of what we’ve accomplished together in 2016.AfricaAs part of its work with...
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Dr. Cynthia Maung: Saving lives and building healthy futures in Burma
Meeting Dr. Cynthia Maung is something you just never forget. Many years ago, when Inter Pares staff member Rebecca Wolsak was volunteering in her clinic in a small Thai town on the border with Burma,...
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Healthcare for All - campaign update
Canadians' access to health care varies tremendously depending on where they live and their ability to pay. Canada is also the only country with public health care and no national drug plan: 24% of...
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Canada and the Global Gag Rule
Inter Pares is deeply concerned about the impact of the Global Gag Rule on the enabling environment for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) around the world. For this reason, we joined...
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Canada's global leadership on women's rights
Inter Pares is deeply appreciative of the funding announcement made today, on International Women's Day, by the Government of Canada of $650 million over 3 years to advance the sexual and reproductive...
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Innovations in reducing maternal mortality in the Philippines
Inter Pares Executive Director Rita Morbia, and Program Manager, David Bruer were thrilled to be in Manila, the Philippines, on the occasion of the opening of Likhaan’s Zaragosa clinic. The clinic is...
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Women’s Health, Women’s Rights Tour
Join us for a discussion on sexual and reproductive health and rights. You will hear stories of how a network of women's health clinics are overcoming the challenges of poverty, violence, and the lack...
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A learning exchange goes on tour
Mark Abellon grew up in one of the slum communities of Manila in the Philippines. As a child he grew to know Likhaan which had trained Community Health Workers from among the women living in his...
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Prime Minister Trudeau Visits Inter Pares Program in the Philippines
Inter Pares appreciates Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to an innovative clinic established and operated by our long-term counterpart, Likhaan Center for Women’s Health. This clinic is part of a...
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Inter Pares staff members were in Manila for the opening of Zaragosa clinic
Language EnglishImpact description: Zaragosa clinic is the first of four clinics to be established within the framework of Inter Pares' program "Innovations in Reducing Maternal Mortality in the...
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Meet the People of Inter Pares in our 2017 Annual Report
In this year's Annual Report, we highlight the people of Inter Pares. Meet some of our counterparts, a donor, a staff and a board member, all part of the large Inter Pares community.It is also thanks...
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Dr. Cynthia Maung, Mae Tao Clinic
Dr. Cynthia, as she’s known, opened the Mae Tao Clinic when she first arrived in Thailand as a refugee, in 1988. The Burma Army was cracking down on the democracy movement, and thousands fled its...
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Recognizing social justice activists
As featured in our 2019 Annual Report Mobilizing for ChangeWorking for social justice is a long road. Setbacks, burnout, and shoestring budgets are all part of the activist life. For 25 years Peter...
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