Big news! This Sunday CWP’s Executive Director, Leilani Farha, was featured in the Globe and Mail column “The Lunch”. In the article Leilani shares her views on ending poverty in Canada, human rights, discrimination and the Income Tax Act. Check…
For Immediate Release National/Regional/Local January 12, 2015 – [Ottawa] Canada’s Indigenous woman are four times more likely to be murdered or go missing than the average Canadian woman, and yet governments at all levels continue to wait for this issue…
For Immediate Release National/Regional/Local October 24, 2014 – Canada Without Poverty (CWP) was gravely concerned with the actions of those who have attacked Canadian Military forces in Ottawa, and Montreal over the past week. But the actions of Mr. Michael…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Thursday, May 8, 2014 CWP’s Executive Director Named as UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing OTTAWA: The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has just announced that Canada Without Poverty’s (CWP) Executive Director, Leilani Farha, has…
Leilani Farha, CWP’s Executive Director, was interviewed on CTV’s PM Express in July following the release of the Canadian Medial Association report that explicitly connects poverty to poor health and early death. As a result of cross-Canada consultations on the…
Globe and Mail reporter Richard Blackwell interviewed Leilani Farha, CWP’s Executive Director, on the role business can play in ending poverty. Recognizing the impact of poverty on the economy and the poor wages that more than half of low-income people…
*Speech made by ED Leilani Farha Thursday, June 13th accepting the Barbra Schlifer award in Toronto. Of course it’s not really the pages I’ve published, the UN halls I’ve walked, or the meetings I’ve attended that landed me here tonight. …
CWP is proud to announce that our Executive Director, Leilani Farha, is the recipient of the first-ever Spirit of Barbra Schlifer Award for her work on women’s rights and the right to adequate housing. Leilani joined CWP in September 0f…
What a week! Last week blew by with events and statements calling for the end of poverty in Canada. October 17th, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, was point of convergence where members of society, political parties and…
Today marks the United Nations designated International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Around the world people are working to raise awareness of the plight of those struggling with low-income. Here are a few events CWP is involved with: Dignity…