"Canadian perspectives on global justice"

Now available:

Nov 2009 issue: "Exclusion"

• Dalits in Bangladesh
  A the bottom of society, fighting for a voice
• Honduras beaches
  Local Garifuna organization claims tourism development means increased repression
• Homosexuality and Africa - a deadly combination
  State-sponsored oppression and the impact on the HIV /AIDS epidemic
• Financial vultures
  Poor countries pay millions to private collectors on old, often forgotten, debts
• Second class in Hong Kong
  Domestic workers come for the work, risking exploitation, and are permanently excluded from citizenship
• Landgrabs in Cambodia
  Evictions of poor communities are common as demand for land rises

Eye on the World Bank and IMF

• In the corridors, the Upstream’s editor checks out the winds of policy change
• Book review: “Moving Out of Poverty”

Eye on Ottawa

• Canada’s new law on accountability in foreign aid, and why it’s not working
• Ernie Schibli’s Opinion
  Canada’s reluctance to condemn the Honduras coup

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Editor  Derek MacCuish

Published by the Social Justice Committee of Montreal, the Upstream Journal reflects the perspective of Third World poverty as a human rights issue. Online edition ISSN 1712-834X

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Music: "World Wide Gun" by Chris Velan