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Anti-poverty Groups
Child poverty
Consumer rights
Disability
Education
Guaranteed Adequate Income
Health and poverty
Housing and homelessness
Human rights and povert
Hunger and food security

Justice
Labour and unemployment
Minimum wage and living wage
Poverty - general information
Social policy and research
Women and poverty
Youth poverty

Anti-poverty Groups

Low Income Families Together (LIFT)
Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC)
Ontario Coalition for Social Justice
Ontario Social Safety Network
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
Front commun des personnes assistées sociales du Québec
Collectif pour un Quebec sans pauvrete
The Anti-Poverty Committee
Justice with Dignity
End Legislated Poverty
Working Group on Poverty
New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice
ODSP Action Coalition
Fredericton Anti-Poverty Coalition
Women and a Fair Income
ATD 4th World
Halifax Coalition Against Poverty
Poverty - general information
National Council of Welfare  
Canadian Council on Social Development  
Centre for Social Justice  
PovNet  
Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ)  
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives  
End Canadian Poverty  

Minimum Wage & Living Wage

Just Income Coalition (Manitoba)
Saskatchewan Living Wage Coalition
Walk, Wheel & Ride for Dignity (Ontario)
Ontario Needs a Raise campaign (Ontario Coalition for Social Justice)
New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice
Public Interest Alberta

Au bas de l'échelle (Quebec)

The Case for a Living Wage by Nancy Langdon in Briarpatch, 2005
From Poverty Wages to a Living Wage by Christopher Schenk, Centre for Social Justice,
Raising the Floor, The Social and Economic Benefits of Minimum Wages in Canada by Michael Goldberg and David Green, CCPA, 1999
Left Behind: Low-Paid Workers in Canada by Ron Saunders, CPRN, 2005
Child poverty
Campaign 2000  
National Children's Alliance  

Housing & homelessness

National Coalition on Housing and Homelessness  
Canadian Housing and Renewal Association  
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee  
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation  
Housing Again  
Homelessness Action Group  
Slum Tourism - Parkdale Tennants Association (Toronto)  

Health and Poverty

Canadian Health Coalition  
Canadian AIDS Society - HIV and Poverty in Canada web site  
Social Determinants of Health  
Improving the Health of Canadians Report  
Human Rights and Poverty
Charter Committee on Poverty Issues
Poverty and Human Rights Centre
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
La Ligue des droits et libertés

Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights - Promises to Keep: Implementing Canada's Human Rights Obligations, Dec. 2001

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Fourth Report by Canada to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Testimony of Bruce Porter on behalf of the NAPO, the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation and the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the right to adequate housing in Canada
"Freedom from Want: From Charity to Entitlement" by Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the 6th Annual LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture, March 2005

Hunger and food security

Canadian Association of Food Banks  
Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador  
Growing Food Security in Alberta  
Cost of Living in BC by Dietitians of Canada  

Labour and unemployment

Canadian Labour Congress  
Women and Poverty
National Network on Environments and Women's Health
National Association of Women and the Law
World March of Women
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA)
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
Womennet.ca - Canadian Women's Virtual Information Centre
National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada (NOIVMWC)
Women and a Fair Income

Justice issues

National Association of Women and the Law  
Income Security Advocacy Advocacy Centre  
Court Challenges Program  
Law Commission of Canada  
Charter Committee on Poverty Issues  
Community Legal Education Ontario
Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

Education

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada  
Canadian Federation of Students  

Disability issues

DisAbled Women's Network Ontario  
Council of Canadians with Disabilities  
ARCH - legal resource centre for persons with disabilities  
Disability WebLinks  
Tools and Resources  
Media and advocacy toolkits  

Consumer rights and privacy

Public Interest Advocacy Centre  

Social policy and research

Canadian Social Research Newsletter  
Tristat Resources (Richard Shillington)  
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives  
Laidlaw Foundation (under Children's Agenda programme : series of reports on social inclusion)  
Caledon Institute of Social Policy  
Canadian Policy Research Networks  
Institute for Research on Public Policy  
Social Development Canada (for info on social programs)  
Guaranteed Adequate Income  
Livable Incomes for Everyone  
Youth poverty  
National Children's Alliance  
   
   
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