Publications & Resources

Inter Pares Annual Report 2009 – Seizing the Moment

Resisting the imposition of top-down political and economic monocultures, and creating solutions that begin with those most affected.

Shining a light: Inter Pares’ thirty-five years of social justice action

Peter Gillespie shares Inter Pares rich history, telling the stories of the many relationships he has nurtured with people around the world.

Report of the Information Clearinghouse on Border Controls and Infringements to Travellers’ Rights

The real impact of "enhanced" border controls, no-fly lists and other government watch lists on the lives of real people.

Learning and Acting Together

Canadian officials and politicians appreciate having access to perspectives and voices they otherwise would not have heard.

Highlights 2009

Highlights from 2009 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

The Future is Now

Young people in Peru, in Sudan, in the Philippines, and in Canada are building the future they want, now.

Fuelling Underdevelopment in Colombia: Poverty, Human Rights and Canada’s Role in the African Palm Oil Sector

The report examines the socio-economic, human rights, cultural, and environmental impacts of the expanding production of African oil palm.

Solidarity is Our Security

Replacing fear with common cause, and addressing the roots of poverty and oppression.

Land and Conflict – Resource Extraction, Human Rights, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Canadian Companies in Colombia

Examination of four case studies of Canadian extractive industry investment projects in Colombia for potential human rights risks

The Hope that Unites Us

Internal armed conflicts in Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Inter Pares Annual Report 2008 – The world we desire

Our best efforts lie in paying close attention to the present – in all its diversity and complexity and possibility.

Giving as an Act of Solidarity

The most important is to build a movement by gaining the support of people who care about social justice.

Women's Struggles for Justice – A Roundtable on Confronting Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict

Twenty activists consolidate knowledge and advance feminist strategies on the issue of sexual violence against women in armed conflict.

Highlights 2008

Highlights from 2008 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Reclaiming Our Food

Eliminating hunger and ensuring healthy communities and a healthy planet.

Bearing Witness: The struggle for democracy in Burma

Inter Pares has worked with civil society organizations in Burma since 1992.

Gender, the Paris Declaration and Women’s Emancipation

Molly Kane’s challenge as to how the roles of women and gender are viewed.

Economic Justice: Sharing the collective wealth

Achieving equity requires that people who are benefiting today from inequity be prepared to give up some of their benefits.

Canada and Africa: Prospects for Internationalism and Common Cause

Issues and dilemmas facing international NGOs dedicated to international solidarity with people in Africa.

Inter Pares Annual Report 2007: Taking sides for justice and peace

Choosing to engage instead of turning away, embracing hope rather than neutrality and silence.

Women’s Struggle for Justice

Dedicated women who support and accompany survivors of violence, and our shared learning in the search for justice

Open Migration and the Politics of Fear

In Spring 2007, an exchange took place on an international online research and reflection network on the Great Transition Initiative, concerning the prospect of including the concept of open borders in its vision of a humane and just global future. This article shares elements of that dialogue. Published in Development, 2007, 50(4), (50–55) © 2007 Society for International Development 1011-6370/07

Highlights 2007

Highlights from 2007 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Two Activists Take Their Own Hard Line on Improving Women's Rights in Sudan

Asha El-Karib and Fahima Hashim outline Sudanese women's struggles for equality.

Reclaiming the Romance

Reflecting on dilemmas and opportunities for community organizers and activists throughout the world.

Inter Pares Annual Report 2006: Nurturing life, promoting vitality

This Annual Report provides examples of the actions during 2006 that nurtured and reinvented the politics of life.

Out of the Shadowlands: A report on an international learning circle on migration & citizenship

Activists, policy makers and academics from the around the world met to discuss migration and the rights of people on the move.

Highlights 2006

Highlights from 2006 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Quaker Initiative to End Torture

A movement that aims to translate the outrage people feel about torture into the political pressure that will abolish it.

The Boundaries of Belonging: Reflections on Migration Policies into the 21st Century

The paper examines how we categorize people who have been forced to leave their places of belonging.

Inter Pares Annual Report 2005 – Weaving a world together

What one person struggles to do alone, we can achieve together. What one person has begun, we can preserve and multiply.

Lessons from the Philippines: Public Health, Privatization, and Women's Activism

Public health care globally has been privatized and downsized, and even less accessible to those who need it most

Highlights 2005

Highlights from 2005 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Women and Pharmaceuticals: Twenty Years Later

A Toronto Symposium organized to honor and celebrate the achievements of Ruth Cooperstock.

Genetically Modified Seeds, Biodiversity and Food Security: A Critical Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Biotechnologies on Communities in Developing Countries

An overview of the key issues addressed during “Voices from the South” for Canadian policy-makers and politicians.

Voices from the South: Biotech Seeds, Food Security & International Development

Proceedings from a roundtable held March 9th, 2005 in Ottawa.

Submission on the Factual Inquiry - Commission of Inquiry Maher Arar

Brief submitted to the Arar Commission, investigating collusion of the Canadian government in torture of Canadian citizen Maher Arar.

No More Technological "Silver Bullets": A Policy Brief on Canada's Role in Africa's Agricultural Underdevelopment

Canadian foreign policies and their effects on agricultural development in Africa.

Knowledge and Action: Challenging the Limits

This keynote address by Brian Murphy at Inter Pares' 30th Anniversary Symposium, "Citizen Action: Challenging the Limits," April 2005, highlighted some of the most pressing issues for activists. From militarism and the security agenda to poverty and invasive biotechnology, Brian explores contemporary paradoxes in political action, while urging for mobilization toward progressive transformative change that challenges the limits of the (politically) possible.

Submission concerning the review of the Anti-terrorism Act (C-36)

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) — a coalition of 34 Canadian organizations — calls for repeal of Anti-terrorism Act (C-36)

Controlling seeds: International delegation comes to Saskatchewan

The impact of GMOs on food sovereignty and rural development.

Highlights 2004

Highlights from 2004 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Towards a Feminist Political Economy

How gender influences the social and political relationships and structures of power.

Rethinking Development: Promoting Global Justice in the 21st Century

The global context that will form the imperatives that frame international cooperation, and attempts to re-think international development.

Community-Based Food Security Systems: Local Solutions for Ending Chronic Hunger and Promoting Rural Development

This policy brief explores community-based food security systems based on examples from India.

Sustainable agriculture, food security and gender

Deccan Development Society’s work in India, emphasizing ecological agriculture, community-based grain banks and food security.

Anti-Terrorism and the Security Agenda: Impacts on Rights, Freedoms and Democracy

Recommendations for policy directions to help inform and guide civil society and the Canadian government.

Citizenship and Action: What's at Stake?

This document was presented as the keynote address to the "Community Forum on Social Action," hosted by the Concordia University Institute in Management and Community Development in June 2003, and explores what is at stake in social change activism.

In the Shadow of the Law

A response on the Bill C-36 report addressing related effects arising from the Canadian government's anti-terrorism initiatives.

In Our Own Name: Promoting Peace Through Justice

This paper was a contribution to discussions concerning Canada's role in the world, initiated by the Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his call for a "Dialogue on Foreign Affairs" in January 2003. The reflections in this paper emerge from Inter Pares' direct international experience over almost thirty years.