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Joint statement on Canada's support for women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia Aug 10, 2018 | Read more
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So it’s essential to examine how wealth is generated and for whose benefit. Control Over ResourcesCanada Broadening the conversation on Burma In June 2018, Inter Pares organized a visit to Ottawa of colleagues in Kachin, Chin, and Arakan States, in order to bring their voices to policymakers and promote a comprehensive approach to Burma. Peace and DemocracyBurma May is Mining Justice Month! Join us and tell the Canadian government to fulfill the promises it made in January. Control Over ResourcesCanada Plunder in the Borneo rainforest: A Canadian connection? The Sarawak activists trying to “follow the money” and highlight a number of the factors that give Canada an international reputation as a safe haven for money laundering. Peace and DemocracyAsia 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 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 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 Flor Salvador: Witness to struggle and triumph in Mesoamerica Program manager Guillaume Charbonneau tells us Flor's story and how she grew into her role supporting women's rights movements across Central America and Mexico. Gender Justice & Women's RightsLatin America Top Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds linked to Brazilian land grabs, displacement of people A New York company managing the retirement savings of workers in Sweden, the US and Canada is evading Brazilian laws on foreign investment to acquire farmlands from a businessman accused of violently displacing local communities. Control Over ResourcesCanada Burma: Bringing Grassroots Experience to Canadian Policy In March of 2015, Inter Pares hosted a delegation of four women from Burma to meet with people facing similar struggles, and to share camaraderie and strategies. Violence against womenWomen’s leadershipPeace and DemocracyAsia The Future of International Solidarity Over forty years, we have witnessed incredible change in the countries where we work. While some rights have been gained, others become threatened. Women’s leadershipArmed conflictHuman rightsIndigenous & ethnic rightsEnvironmentLandNatural resourcesAgricultureInternal displacementRefugeesAfrica The Power of Collective Action in Bangladesh Nijera Kori landless groups in the communities of Charbata, Bangladesh, successfully led collective action to protect the land to farm and the river to fish. Women’s leadershipGovernanceControl Over ResourcesAsia Burmese women's rights activists wary of Canadian mining investment By Embassy Magazine's Kristen Shane. Gender Justice & Women's RightsBurma The True Face of Landgrabs in West Africa Participatory research reveals disastrous impacts on communities. Control Over ResourcesAfrica Farmers in Ghana displaced for Canadian mine seek justice Farmers desperate after 10 year struggle for fair compensation for farms destroyed for Canadian mine. Control Over ResourcesAfrica Civilian voices in Burma’s ceasefire negotiations Affected communities collaborate to pursue a peace based on civilian interests. Peace and DemocracyAsia 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 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 Communities in Burma challenge destructive development of natural resources Burma Rivers Network monitors dam projects, promotes ecological sustainability and social justice in resource development. Human rightsControl Over ResourcesBurma
Feminism and the Economic System Feminism is about a transformational change in power dynamics. So it’s essential to examine how wealth is generated and for whose benefit. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Broadening the conversation on Burma In June 2018, Inter Pares organized a visit to Ottawa of colleagues in Kachin, Chin, and Arakan States, in order to bring their voices to policymakers and promote a comprehensive approach to Burma. Peace and DemocracyBurma
May is Mining Justice Month! Join us and tell the Canadian government to fulfill the promises it made in January. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Plunder in the Borneo rainforest: A Canadian connection? The Sarawak activists trying to “follow the money” and highlight a number of the factors that give Canada an international reputation as a safe haven for money laundering. Peace and DemocracyAsia
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
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
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
Flor Salvador: Witness to struggle and triumph in Mesoamerica Program manager Guillaume Charbonneau tells us Flor's story and how she grew into her role supporting women's rights movements across Central America and Mexico. Gender Justice & Women's RightsLatin America
Top Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds linked to Brazilian land grabs, displacement of people A New York company managing the retirement savings of workers in Sweden, the US and Canada is evading Brazilian laws on foreign investment to acquire farmlands from a businessman accused of violently displacing local communities. Control Over ResourcesCanada
Burma: Bringing Grassroots Experience to Canadian Policy In March of 2015, Inter Pares hosted a delegation of four women from Burma to meet with people facing similar struggles, and to share camaraderie and strategies. Violence against womenWomen’s leadershipPeace and DemocracyAsia
The Future of International Solidarity Over forty years, we have witnessed incredible change in the countries where we work. While some rights have been gained, others become threatened. Women’s leadershipArmed conflictHuman rightsIndigenous & ethnic rightsEnvironmentLandNatural resourcesAgricultureInternal displacementRefugeesAfrica
The Power of Collective Action in Bangladesh Nijera Kori landless groups in the communities of Charbata, Bangladesh, successfully led collective action to protect the land to farm and the river to fish. Women’s leadershipGovernanceControl Over ResourcesAsia
Burmese women's rights activists wary of Canadian mining investment By Embassy Magazine's Kristen Shane. Gender Justice & Women's RightsBurma
The True Face of Landgrabs in West Africa Participatory research reveals disastrous impacts on communities. Control Over ResourcesAfrica
Farmers in Ghana displaced for Canadian mine seek justice Farmers desperate after 10 year struggle for fair compensation for farms destroyed for Canadian mine. Control Over ResourcesAfrica
Civilian voices in Burma’s ceasefire negotiations Affected communities collaborate to pursue a peace based on civilian interests. Peace and DemocracyAsia
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
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
Communities in Burma challenge destructive development of natural resources Burma Rivers Network monitors dam projects, promotes ecological sustainability and social justice in resource development. Human rightsControl Over ResourcesBurma