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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
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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
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Inter Pares and SUWRA launch Canadian civil society working group on Sudan Jun 25, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
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In our 2020 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of sustaining social justice. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica What’s taxation got to do with it? When we talk about addressing inequality or women’s rights, the focus is generally on spending tax dollars – for example, creating a day care progr Economic JusticeAfrica Canada's Ombudsperson: Approach with Caution Canada’s Ombuds for Responsible Enterprise still has no teeth. Control Over ResourcesCanada Confronting injustices together Sari Tudiver, Chairperson of the Inter Pares Board of Directors, reflects on how communities mobilized for change in 2019. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica Our 2019 Annual Report is here! In our 2019 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of mobilizing for change. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica Challenging, Confronting and Defying Corporate Power Inter Pares actively supports organizations and movements that interrogate, challenge, and curb corporate power. Peace and DemocracyCanada Inter Pares resigns from Advisory Body Inter Pares has tendered its resignation from the government’s Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Body on Responsible Business Conduct Abroad (Advisory Body). Economic JusticeCanada Canadian Government Breaks Promise to Create Independent Corporate Human Rights Watchdog Inter Pares is dismayed by the recent announcement. Economic JusticeCanada Welcome to Stories of Hope! Over the next five weeks we’ll share amazing stories of hope brought to life through the words of inspiring people: Razia, Lina, Mariam, Omar and Anne. Women's Rights & Gender Justice Tax Justice and Gender Equality What does tax justice have to do with feminism and gender equality? Economic JusticeCanada Whose Rights? A Feminist Approach to International Investment Agreements How power and privilege are distributed and for whose benefit? EnvironmentLandEconomic JusticeLatin America How the River Grows It is the tiniest spring and the most modest stream that eventually turn the waterwheel and the turbine. Control Over Resources May is Mining Justice Month! Join us and tell the Canadian government to fulfill the promises it made in January. Control Over ResourcesCanada Government Announces a Human Rights Ombudsperson Inter Pares welcomes the announcement regarding the creation of a Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Business Enterprise. Control Over ResourcesCanada Highlights 2017: Inter Pares' year in review Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world. Thanks to our generous donors, throughout 2017, we have strengthened many struggles for social justice in Canada and overseas. Women's Rights & Gender Justice We Are All Fundraisers Inter Pares staff are co-managers, but we also all consider ourselves fundraisers. While that is a role that makes many people cringe, it’s one we embrace! Women's Rights & Gender JusticeCanada Canadian pension funds grab farmland in Brazil What are the links between pension funds and landgrabbing? Learn more with this article by David Bruer published in the Monitor magazine. Economic JusticeCanada May Month of Action for Mining Justice Join Inter Pares and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) for a month of action for mining justice in May. Control Over ResourcesCanada Video: 80 Law Profs call on government to make Canada #open4justice A group of university professors have signed a letter to the PM urging him to stick with his election promise to create a human rights ombudsman for the international extractive sector. Economic JusticeCanada My Retirement, Not at the Price of Human Dignity! Quebec and BC’s pension funds have land investments in Brazil that are forcing peasants off their land through violence and fraud. Take action now and write to their CEOs. Control Over ResourcesLatin America Help make Canada Open for Justice Take action today so that Canada has an ombudsperson to give recourse when Canadian mining companies abuse human rights. Control Over ResourcesCanada Op-ed: Enough talk, Canada needs extractive industries ombudsperson The CNCA has just released proposed legislation that would uphold human rights of communities affected by Canadian extractive industries. Control Over ResourcesCanada The Panama Papers: Let's do what's right The Panama Papers reveal a system where wealthy individuals hide their money in tax havens to avoid paying tax in the countries where they live and carry out their business. It may be legal but it isn’t fair. Economic Justice Vote for Tax Fairness Canadians for Tax Fairness (CTF), an Inter Pares counterpart, is busting myths about taxes and calling for tax reform. Economic JusticeCanada Inter Pares Film Nights lineup features thought-provoking documentaries on social justice Fall is here, and so is a fresh crop of Inter Pares Film Nights! Peace and Democracy Inequalities: the central focus of a regional Leadership Forum in Kenya The Forum, organized by our long-term counterpart ACORD, brought together 47 African and international social justice activists. Armed conflictControl Over ResourcesAfrica (In)Equality Matters: tax justice, tax havens and the international economy The global economy creates inequality and poverty, and bankrupts countries. This is irrational and unjust. Economic JusticeAfrica Canadians raised their voice for mining accountability on May 14th Over 80,000 people sent a letter or postcard to their MP to call for access to justice here in Canada for people who have been harmed by Canadian extractive companies abroad. Economic JusticeCanada Making free trade into fairer trade: The work of Third World Network Sanya Reid Smith works for Inter Pares counterpart, Third World Network analyzing trade agreements such as the Trans Pacific Partnership. Economic JusticeCanada Medicare: Canadians can afford compassion Canada’s public healthcare system is sustainable but only if Canadians choose funding the system over tax cuts. Economic JusticeCanada Rejecting the cult of austerity – taxes are revenue for development Taxes are revenue countries need for development and are lost to tax havens resulting in austerity programs Economic JusticeCanada Crony capitalism: How ‘development’ led to armed conflict in Kachin State Uncontrolled resource development during a 17-year ceasefire impoverished Kachin State & reignited war in 2011. Armed conflictHuman rightsIndigenous & ethnic rightsControl Over ResourcesAsia Chin people in Burma: Having a say on their land Chin Human Rights Organization documents human rights abuses and campaigns to ensure benefits for Indigenous people. Indigenous & ethnic rightsControl Over ResourcesAsia Canada Pension Plan fuels human rights abuses in Burma Burma’s Shwe Gas Project fuels armed conflict, rights abuses and poverty, with Canada Pension Plan financing. Control Over ResourcesBurma Third World Network: Talking trade and justice Third World Network monitors agreements around the world in order to help southern countries advocate for fairer trade regimes. Economic JusticeAsia Canadian civil society organizes for corporate accountability Mining Watch Canada, the Halifax Initiative and Inter Pares advocate for responsible behavior from Canadian companies Human rightsEconomic JusticeCanada
Our 2020 Annual Report is here! In our 2020 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of sustaining social justice. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica
What’s taxation got to do with it? When we talk about addressing inequality or women’s rights, the focus is generally on spending tax dollars – for example, creating a day care progr Economic JusticeAfrica
Canada's Ombudsperson: Approach with Caution Canada’s Ombuds for Responsible Enterprise still has no teeth. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Confronting injustices together Sari Tudiver, Chairperson of the Inter Pares Board of Directors, reflects on how communities mobilized for change in 2019. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica
Our 2019 Annual Report is here! In our 2019 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of mobilizing for change. Women's Rights & Gender JusticeAfrica
Challenging, Confronting and Defying Corporate Power Inter Pares actively supports organizations and movements that interrogate, challenge, and curb corporate power. Peace and DemocracyCanada
Inter Pares resigns from Advisory Body Inter Pares has tendered its resignation from the government’s Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Body on Responsible Business Conduct Abroad (Advisory Body). Economic JusticeCanada
Canadian Government Breaks Promise to Create Independent Corporate Human Rights Watchdog Inter Pares is dismayed by the recent announcement. Economic JusticeCanada
Welcome to Stories of Hope! Over the next five weeks we’ll share amazing stories of hope brought to life through the words of inspiring people: Razia, Lina, Mariam, Omar and Anne. Women's Rights & Gender Justice
Tax Justice and Gender Equality What does tax justice have to do with feminism and gender equality? Economic JusticeCanada
Whose Rights? A Feminist Approach to International Investment Agreements How power and privilege are distributed and for whose benefit? EnvironmentLandEconomic JusticeLatin America
How the River Grows It is the tiniest spring and the most modest stream that eventually turn the waterwheel and the turbine. Control Over Resources
May is Mining Justice Month! Join us and tell the Canadian government to fulfill the promises it made in January. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Government Announces a Human Rights Ombudsperson Inter Pares welcomes the announcement regarding the creation of a Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Business Enterprise. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Highlights 2017: Inter Pares' year in review Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world. Thanks to our generous donors, throughout 2017, we have strengthened many struggles for social justice in Canada and overseas. Women's Rights & Gender Justice
We Are All Fundraisers Inter Pares staff are co-managers, but we also all consider ourselves fundraisers. While that is a role that makes many people cringe, it’s one we embrace! Women's Rights & Gender JusticeCanada
Canadian pension funds grab farmland in Brazil What are the links between pension funds and landgrabbing? Learn more with this article by David Bruer published in the Monitor magazine. Economic JusticeCanada
May Month of Action for Mining Justice Join Inter Pares and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) for a month of action for mining justice in May. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Video: 80 Law Profs call on government to make Canada #open4justice A group of university professors have signed a letter to the PM urging him to stick with his election promise to create a human rights ombudsman for the international extractive sector. Economic JusticeCanada
My Retirement, Not at the Price of Human Dignity! Quebec and BC’s pension funds have land investments in Brazil that are forcing peasants off their land through violence and fraud. Take action now and write to their CEOs. Control Over ResourcesLatin America
Help make Canada Open for Justice Take action today so that Canada has an ombudsperson to give recourse when Canadian mining companies abuse human rights. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Op-ed: Enough talk, Canada needs extractive industries ombudsperson The CNCA has just released proposed legislation that would uphold human rights of communities affected by Canadian extractive industries. Control Over ResourcesCanada
The Panama Papers: Let's do what's right The Panama Papers reveal a system where wealthy individuals hide their money in tax havens to avoid paying tax in the countries where they live and carry out their business. It may be legal but it isn’t fair. Economic Justice
Vote for Tax Fairness Canadians for Tax Fairness (CTF), an Inter Pares counterpart, is busting myths about taxes and calling for tax reform. Economic JusticeCanada
Inter Pares Film Nights lineup features thought-provoking documentaries on social justice Fall is here, and so is a fresh crop of Inter Pares Film Nights! Peace and Democracy
Inequalities: the central focus of a regional Leadership Forum in Kenya The Forum, organized by our long-term counterpart ACORD, brought together 47 African and international social justice activists. Armed conflictControl Over ResourcesAfrica
(In)Equality Matters: tax justice, tax havens and the international economy The global economy creates inequality and poverty, and bankrupts countries. This is irrational and unjust. Economic JusticeAfrica
Canadians raised their voice for mining accountability on May 14th Over 80,000 people sent a letter or postcard to their MP to call for access to justice here in Canada for people who have been harmed by Canadian extractive companies abroad. Economic JusticeCanada
Making free trade into fairer trade: The work of Third World Network Sanya Reid Smith works for Inter Pares counterpart, Third World Network analyzing trade agreements such as the Trans Pacific Partnership. Economic JusticeCanada
Medicare: Canadians can afford compassion Canada’s public healthcare system is sustainable but only if Canadians choose funding the system over tax cuts. Economic JusticeCanada
Rejecting the cult of austerity – taxes are revenue for development Taxes are revenue countries need for development and are lost to tax havens resulting in austerity programs Economic JusticeCanada
Crony capitalism: How ‘development’ led to armed conflict in Kachin State Uncontrolled resource development during a 17-year ceasefire impoverished Kachin State & reignited war in 2011. Armed conflictHuman rightsIndigenous & ethnic rightsControl Over ResourcesAsia
Chin people in Burma: Having a say on their land Chin Human Rights Organization documents human rights abuses and campaigns to ensure benefits for Indigenous people. Indigenous & ethnic rightsControl Over ResourcesAsia
Canada Pension Plan fuels human rights abuses in Burma Burma’s Shwe Gas Project fuels armed conflict, rights abuses and poverty, with Canada Pension Plan financing. Control Over ResourcesBurma
Third World Network: Talking trade and justice Third World Network monitors agreements around the world in order to help southern countries advocate for fairer trade regimes. Economic JusticeAsia
Canadian civil society organizes for corporate accountability Mining Watch Canada, the Halifax Initiative and Inter Pares advocate for responsible behavior from Canadian companies Human rightsEconomic JusticeCanada