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Office
238 Queen St. W.
Lower Level
Toronto, ON

Mailing
888 Dupont St.
Unit 404
Toronto, ON M6G 3N4

Phone: 416 604 5749
info@lift.to

Reports and Publications

Major Poverty Reduction Report

United Nations Covenant On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Plain Language Summary

2006 Report to the United Nations

International Human Rights Day Message from LIFT

LEAD’s Press Release Regarding Canada’s 2006 review

Community Report on Economic Social and Cultural Human Rights: A Report by The St. James Town L.E.A.D Project

Report of the UN committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

LIFT’s Publications

Many people are probably doing popular education without knowing it. The name is really secondary. If the process is participatory, critical and supports people in organizing to change their situation, it’s popular education.

Eduardo Baez in To Change This House: Popular Education or Popular Education Under The Sandinistas (Deborah Barndt)

Human Rights Workbook/Video Kit ($ 50.00)
Provides a complete workshop package with “how-to” instructions, a list of support people and copies of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (with plain language translation).

The Ontario People’s Report to the UN ($ 35.00)
Submitted to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights in the province of Ontario, Canada.

LIFT’s Economic Literacy Comic Books

Series of Booklets on economic and social policy in Canada presented in an easy, fun and entertaining way, an alternative view of the ongoing dismemberment of Canada’s public sector. Written and illustrated by Tony Biddle of Perfect World Productions.

The Real Reasons (Behind All Those Cuts) ($ 2.00)
Bulldozing Human Rights ($ 3.00)
There Are Alternatives (To Globalization-Mania) ($ 2.00)
Ontario’s Food Story (Food security issues) ($ 3.00)

LIFT’s Budget Documents

Lift’s Budget Response
City Budget Deputation

Suggested reading

Here are some documents worth reading.

Human Rights and Poverty

To All Delegations of the World Summit Review

Why should we care about “The Right to Development”?

Imagine a world based on Human Rights Law