Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
Canadian coalition calls for urgent action to uphold civil liberties and Charter rights at protests and encampments across the country May 15, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares joins call for Burma to end use of violence and respect democracy Feb 4, 2021 | Read more
Planning is resistance: Indigenous people in Burma envision a self-determined future May 23, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Jun 9, 2017 | Read more
Stopping the unstoppable: Citizen resistance to exterminator technology in Burkina Faso Sep 4, 2019 | Read more
The Immigrant Workers Centre to receive 2018 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award Apr 18, 2018 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Mar 11, 2019 | Read more
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Inter Pares and SUWRA launch Canadian civil society working group on Sudan Jun 25, 2024 | Read more
Karate and bodily autonomy: Helping girls in Bangladesh thrive through sport Dec 15, 2022 | Read more
Planning is resistance: Indigenous people in Burma envision a self-determined future May 23, 2024 | Read more
Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
My Retirement, Not at the Price of Human Dignity! event : Campaign Share Print Quebec and BC’s pension funds have land investments in Brazil that are forcing peasants off their land through violence and fraud. The two funds are investors in a major US pension fund (TIIA-CREF), who has set up a fund called TCGA to buy up land around the world, including in Brazil. Inter Pares and other Canadian organizations have conducted research that that shows that some of this land has been acquired from a person accused of forcibly displacing local people, even assassinating one farmer who refused to sell, and through falsifying documentation to claim ownership. The fund is also evading local laws were designed to prevent speculation that drives farmers off their land. Learn more here. As part of the campaign "My Retirement, Not at the Price of Human Dignity!", Inter Pares is encouraging people to write to the CEOs of the pension funds to express their indignation. Both pension funds have made a commitment to invest in businesses that respect human rights as well as Canadian and international standards for environmental regulations. Hold these funds accountable. Sample letter to the Caisse de dépôt et placements du Québec (CDPQ) Sample letter to the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) If you email your letter, please cc our campaign: pensionlandgrab@hotmail.com You can follow our campaign on social media as well - please share our posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and share your concerns with CDPQ and bcIMC this way as well.