Faire du plaidoyer, c’est résister – Naviguer dans la violence anti-LGBTQI+ de l’après-guerre au Guatemala 23 mai 2024 | Lire l’article
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Inter Pares dénonce la crise rohingya et appelle à des mesures immédiates 11 Déc 2017 | Lire l’article
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Des activistes résistent à la contagion des coups d’État au Soudan et en Birmanie 9 mai 2022 | Lire l’article
La responsabilité de nos compagnies à l'étranger, c'est une affaire de justice! 26 jan 2017 | Lire l’article
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Arrêter l’imparable : résistance citoyenne à la technologie exterminatrice au Burkina Faso 4 Sep 2019 | Lire l’article
Des services de santé sexuelle et reproductive novateurs en zones de conflit 18 Oct 2023 | Lire l’article
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Jusqu’à ce qu’on les retrouve : à la recherche d’êtres chers sur la route du Nord 11 Mar 2019 | Lire l’article
Le Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants reçoit le Prix Peter Gillespie pour la justice sociale 19 Avr 2018 | Lire l’article
APPEL À PARTICIPATION | Lancement du groupe de travail de la société civile canadienne sur le Soudan 25 Jun 2024 | Lire l’article
40 años de acción por la justicia social: historias y lecciones en un nuevo libro de PCS 19 Fév 2019 | Lire l’article
40 años de acción por la justicia social: historias y lecciones en un nuevo libro de PCS 19 Fév 2019 | Lire l’article
40 años de acción por la justicia social: historias y lecciones en un nuevo libro de PCS 19 Fév 2019 | Lire l’article
La longue lutte de Victoria pour que justice soit rendue aux survivants de la stérilisation forcée 25 Nov 2023 | Lire l’article
Choisir est mon droit : Plaidoyer pour l'accès à l'avortement au Canada et au Salvador 31 Oct 2022 | Lire l’article
La directrice de notre homologue birman remporte le prix international du leadership éditorial 27 mai 2024 | Lire l’article
Planifier, c’est résister – Les peuples autochtones birmans imaginent un avenir autodéterminé 23 mai 2024 | Lire l’article
How the River Grows Nouvelles : Analyses 16 Jul 2018 Partager Imprimer cette page It is the tiniest spring and the most modest stream that eventually turn the waterwheel and the turbine. If each spring and stream knew this, they would experience the power of mighty rivers. Successful social movements teach what rivers know. - Brian K. Murphy, Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World: An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Murder, rape, forced displacement and other crimes connected with the activities of Canadian mining companies overseas are now a horrific but well-known story. For over a decade, people in Canada and around the world called for Canada to address this travesty. In January 2018, the Canadian government announced the establishment of an independent human rights watchdog for the overseas operations of Canadian companies, with an initial focus on mining, oil, gas and textiles. The first of its kind in the world, the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise will investigate and report on allegations of human rights violations associated with Canadian companies’ overseas operations. Not intended to replace the courts, the Ombudsperson nevertheless will be able to make recommendations for remedy and to prevent future harm. Companies found to have breached basic human rights standards will no longer receive the significant public resources that the Canadian government provides to support overseas investment. Over thirty organizations make up the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), which drove the push for an Ombudsperson, and kept the issue of Canadian corporate complicity in human rights abuses on the national agenda. As a co-founder and active member of its steering committee, Inter Pares is proud of its role in collaborating to sustain CNCA and its activities since 2005. In 2017, with the assistance of legal experts across the country, CNCA developed guidelines to ensure an effective Ombudsperson. CNCA member organizations such as Kairos and Project Accompaniment Québec-Guatemala invited villagers from affected communities in the Philippines and Guatemala to come to speak to Canadians and to our MPs. Grassroots members such as the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network in Toronto and faith-based United for Mining Justice held demonstrations at MPs’ constituency offices to insist that human rights defenders be heard. Above Ground brought government officials and elected representatives together with Canadian and international legal experts to examine government accountability for human rights violations by transnational companies. Inter Pares collaborated with the United Church to present online workshops for grassroots organizations and individuals – including our own supporters across the country – to prepare to meet their local MPs. With the Canadian Labour Congress, Steelworkers Humanity Fund, MiningWatch and others, we met with MPs, including the Minister for Trade, analyzing and responding to the arguments from industry. Some of our supporters with expertise in law, trade and development advised us and wrote letters and op-eds themselves, and other Inter Pares supporters joined with members of Amnesty International, Breaking the Silence and Development & Peace to write letters of concern to their local MPs and community newspapers across the country. What has been achieved was made possible by hundreds of thousands of Canadians who cared. Grassroots groups, students, church congregations, academics, grandparents and families provided money, time, expertise, creativity, passion for justice – whatever they could contribute. All this was done in collaboration with hundreds of affected communities, human rights defenders and local NGOs around the globe, in profound solidarity with their remarkable courage, hope and determination. While the establishment of the Ombudsperson is a significant advance, it has always been seen as just a first, and urgent, step. Inter Pares continues to support affected communities in their efforts to regulate corporations and hold their own governments accountable for protecting human rights, and for maintaining financial and environmental standards. And we collaborate in global networks working to change the structures of international finance – tax havens, obscure corporate ownership, unfair loans, lop-sided investment treaties – that empower the already powerful and weaken democratic process. As we face a world ridden with problems, addressing any one of them seems like a formidable, even impossible, task. But we are not alone. We are with millions of people, all over the world, each of us contributing our energy, our talents to the work of change. Any one of us may feel like a mere trickle of a stream, but we are truly part of a mighty river. Faire un commentaire You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Votre nom Comment * Sauvegarder Leave this field blank